Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are at risk for oral health disparities. With the dramatic rise in ASD prevalence to 1 in 54 children, it is likely that an increasing number of dental practitioners will encounter or be asked to treat children with ASD. This paper reviews explanations related to the increasing prevalence of ASD, provides reasons why children with ASD are at increased risk for poor oral health, and discusses unique interprofessional collaborations between dental practitioners and occupational therapists. Occupational therapists and dentists can work together to plan modifications to the dental environment or adapt dental protocols to reduce some of the barriers encountered by those with ASD, provide desensitization strategies before the clinic visit, or help a child with emotional regulation during clinical treatments. Source: Oral Health and Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Unique Collaboration between Dentistry and Occupational Therapy – Docwire News
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High Rate of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Due to Choir Practice in France at the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Docwire News
Twenty-seven participants, including 25 singers, 1 conductor and 1 accompanist attended a choir practice on March 12, 2020. The practice was indoor and took place in a non ventilated space of 45 m2. No choir member reported having been symptomatic for COVID-19 between March 2 and March 12.The mean age of the participants was 66.9 (range 35-86) years. The secondary attack rate was 70%: 19/27 participants were diagnosed with COVID-19 from 1 to 12 days after the rehearsal with a median of 5.1 days. Thirty-six percent of the cases needed a hospitalization (7/19), and 21% (4/19) were admitted to an ICU. The index cases were asymptomatic and possibly multiple. CONCLUSION: In the absence of valid barrier measures to prevent COVID-19 transmission, indoor choir practice should be suspended during the SARSCoV-2 surging phases. Transmission of the virus among gatherings from asymptomatic cases is a crucial issue and a main challenge to COVID-19 control.
Coronavirus digest: UK sees record rise as mutant variant spreads | News | DW | 02.01.2021
The United Kingdom has recorded more new coronavirus infections in a single day than ever before for a fifth consecutive day, registering more than 57,700 cases within 24 hours.
Many of those cases are attributed to a variant of the virus that appears to be more contagious and is particularly rampant in London.
Over the same period, 445 virus-related deaths were also recorded across the UK, which has announced a death toll of over 82,600 since the start of the pandemic.
Source: Coronavirus digest: UK sees record rise as mutant variant spreads | News | DW | 02.01.2021
Opinion | A Doctor’s Covid Vaccine Won’t Save Her Dying Patients – The New York Times
My news feed is full of jubilant photos of doctors and nurses announcing their vaccinations. I consider taking my own photo, but then hesitate. Because just a few floors up, there are dozens of patients who cannot breathe, who are scared and alone, who might die simply because they shared a holiday dinner. I find myself, nine months into this pandemic, vaccinated and yet still on a pendulum swinging between hope and despair.
Outside, the snow falls. Already it feels like a long winter. Here in the hospital, the anxious adrenaline of the spring has given way to a heavy, lingering sadness. We are caring for patients who have sacrificed and taken precautions for months and now — bending under the pain of isolation, starved for human connection — might die simply because they decided to spend time indoors with people they love or to go out to dinner. I have been careful so long, they must have thought. Humans are inherently optimistic, notoriously bad at assessing risk. Surely this one small thing will be OK.
A Swanky Kakanin
In my country, there is a ton of silly cultural and superstitious beliefs that needs to be kept and observed during the New Year. From wearing polka dots, to ensuring 12 types of fruits on the dining table, to jumping when midnight strikes and to making sure all lights are on inside the house, all these and other insane beliefs are observed by Filipinos when New Year happens. Failure to do so would result to some wicked curse, a good amount of misfortune and a handful of bad lucks the whole year.
Two of the silly beliefs my family did last New Year’s Eve was the tossing of heaps of coins inside the house (for prosperous fortune) plus the serving of classic “kakanin”. From the amalgamation of two Tagalog root words kain meaning “to eat” and kanin meaning “cooked rice”, kakanin are varieties of sticky and glutinous Filipino…
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25-year-old COVID-19 victim being remembered as ‘bright light’ in her community
RIP
The 25-year-old from the Thunderchild First Nation is being remembered by family and friends as an avid photographer who was able to capture time and people perfectly with her camera.
Avenoir
Fear is tacit
Visible journey behind
Veiled future ahead
The beauty of life is not knowing what future holds for us. We peel off tomorrow layer by layer living the present of our future as we stroll through each day.
For instance, If we would know we will not become successful we would have stopped trying long before, if we would know, we will achieve wonders, still we would have stopped trying. In both the cases, we would end up doing nothing. In the former we would forebode and in the latter we would become hubristic.
And in between both of these, where will life be lived?
I so want to humm these lines..
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream..

God has created a perfect balance of our mind to not foresee the future and…
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Transcript and audio: Trump call with Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger – The Washington Post
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” Dois amigos indispensáveis: um livro e um gato!🐾” Marii Freire Pereira https://pensamentos.me/VEM comigo! Imagem: IvyRio Criação: Marii Freire Pereira/ VEM comigo! Santarém, Pá 3 de janeiro de 2021
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Coronavirus vaccine: PM expects ‘tens of millions’ of jabs by April – BBC News (sidestepping questions of how many and when now)
Boris Johnson told BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show that “in vaccinating 1m people” in the UK, “already we exceed the whole of the rest of Europe put together”. (Yo! Boris… no one cares how many in EU, Brits care 1st about Brits – remember!)
Source: Coronavirus vaccine: PM expects ‘tens of millions’ of jabs by April – BBC News
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