5 Medical Appointments You Should Stop Putting Off
I know I have wanted to avoid medical facilities and offices while COVID-19 has been on the rise. But there are some aspects of routine care that shouldn’t be avoided. NPR (National Public Radio) has this advice: “There are some medical appointments you just shouldn’t put off any longer, even if you’re nervous about venturing into a clinic or emergency room.”
Running the Show: Where the writers behind your favorite TV shows explain how they made them
Most of us have been watching a LOT of television over the last year to fill in the empty spaces created by lockdown.
“Here are the conversations with the creative minds behind some of the TV shows you can’t stop watching. The discussions cover a range of topics, including their journey, their craft, their frustrations and, well, their shows.”
Time, like memory, is fickle: days wrap back on themselves
Writer and art historian Grace Linden muses on the nature of time as the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our perception of it:
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrung meaning from time. Each day is so like the former. April disappeared entirely; Thanksgiving feels as close, or faraway, as last June. I no longer can keep track of the dates; time has become a pool of standing water.
Washington flu deaths dropped from 114 last season to 0. There are a few reasons why
“Washington’s flu deaths dropped from 114 to zero in a year’s time, thanks to coronavirus protocols and an abundance of caution, health officials say.”
According to the article, similar trends have been noted nationally and globally. Let us take our silver linings where we can find them.
The False Dilemma of Post-Vaccination Risk
“We’ll never know for sure how contagious people are after they’re vaccinated, but we do know how they should act.”
The rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations “is creating a legion of people who no longer need to fear getting sick, and are desperate to return to “normal” life. Yet the messaging on whether they might still carry and spread the disease—and thus whether it’s really safe for them to resume their unmasked, un-distanced lives—has been oblique.”
Here’s some advice from James Hamblin, a medical doctor who is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health.
Libraries Offering Services to Seniors During COVID-19 Pandemic
Because most older adults face increasing social isolation as they age, the COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly hard on them. This article examines a few libraries that have developed outreach programs to help senior citizens deal with this problem.
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