“Kids are resilient.” If you’re like me, you’ve come to cringe every time you hear that statement. It now ranks up there with the words and phrases “unprecedented,” “new normal,” and “out of an abundance of caution.” Thanks to COVID, I’m done hearing these phrases, and I’m done allowing everyone to brush off every trauma …
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Since the COVID-19 vaccines became a reality in late 2020, the media have been discussing vaccine cards and vaccine passports. Now that obtaining the vaccine is theoretically possible for nearly every American adult who wants it (I say theoretically because there are structural barriers in place for many Americans that make it difficult for them …
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February brought us exciting news about vaccines as well as troubling news about COVID-19 variants. There has been confusion about how these variants may impact vaccine effectiveness. Hopefully this blog post helps clear up some of that confusion. New Variants In the last couple of months, new variants (strains or mutations) of COVID have been …
If you’ve set foot in your local supermarkets lately, you may have noticed cleaning products appearing on the shelves again. In some cases, sales are limited to one or two items per person, and brand name items like Lysol spray and wipes may still be rare finds. Thanks to “the great fomite freakout,” (Morris as …
Christina J. Steffy