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.
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.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential re-election, metro Atlantans who work with the U.S. State Department’s refugee resettlement program don’t know which parts of the president-elect’s campaign rhetoric will translate into his immigration policy.
