Allen Siegler is one of Healthbeat’s local reporters in Atlanta. Before joining Healthbeat, Allen was the public health reporter at Mountain State Spotlight, a nonprofit investigative newsroom covering issues in West Virginia. In that role, he covered issues like occupational safety, gun violence and the overdose epidemic. He earned his Master of Public Health degree at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2022.
Many immigrant doctors struggle to practice medicine in Georgia. Those who received medical degrees outside the United States often face difficulty competing with American-trained doctors for a limited number of residency spots — though it’s not because there’s no demand for more doctors in the state.
While Georgia influenza and COVID-19 rates appear to be lower than last year at this time, flu circulation has reached a level that concerns some local health officials.
Heading into the fifth U.S. winter of COVID-19, an Emory University lab has found the presence — or absence — of a particular antibody in the nose of patients can predict how severe their illness would be.
