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Possible changes coming to COVID-19 isolation protocol; CDC denies update – WHEC.com

In a statement to News10NBC, the CDC denied any immediate changes:

“No updates to COVID guidelines to announce at this time. We will continue to make decisions based on the best evidence and science to keep communities healthy and safe.”

Source: Possible changes coming to COVID-19 isolation protocol; CDC denies update – WHEC.com

One Year Later, A Town Torn Apart: Update From East Palestine, Ohio

It’s been a year since a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents and endangering the community’s health and safety.

East Palestine is a village with a population of less than 5,000 people that sits about a mile from the Pennsylvania border. About 52,000 people live within 10 miles of the crash site…

…I am turning down interviews from major media networks because I am so mad and so frustrated. It feels like nothing changes. What’s the point? Anything I have to add will be negative. It is a total failure of our agencies.

The town has been bought off, and the people are left waiting to get cancer or worse, while business just keeps on rolling.

I can’t tell you all how many emails I get EVERY day from people who want my help, but these environmental problems are way bigger than one person coming in to magically save the day. We all have to get involved. We have to work together.

Please keep the conversation going in the comments below. I know most of you feel equally upset about what happened in Ohio and/or what’s happening in your town. Let’s support each other to keep moving forward…

Source: One Year Later, A Town Torn Apart: Update From East Palestine, Ohio

Good People Doing Good Things Meets Black History Month — Dr. Dan | Filosofa’s Word

Daniel Hale Williams

…Due to the discrimination of the day, African-American citizens were still barred from being admitted to hospitals and black doctors were refused staff positions. Firmly believing this needed to change, in May 1891, Williams opened Provident Hospital and Training School for Nurses, the nation’s first hospital with a nursing and intern program that had a racially integrated staff. The facility, where Williams worked as a surgeon, was publicly championed by famed abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass.

On July 9th, 1893, an oppressively hot day, James Cornish had worked a long day and was too wound up to go straight home. James thought to stop at his favourite bar to unwind a bit, but, as will happen when the heat gets to people, a fight soon broke out, and Mr. Cornish had the bad luck to become embroiled in the brawl, causing him to end up with a knife in his heart!

Turns out it was Cornish’s lucky day, for he was taken to Provident Hospital and placed in the care of none other than our Dr. Dan.   At first Cornish seemed to recover, but the next day he rapidly lost ground. Williams, despite having little medical equipment and no idea what was going on inside of Cornish’s chest, decided to be the first in the world to crack open a human chest and try to fix a human heart.

Williams found a tiny tear in the pericardium, the sac that surrounds the heart, and with just a few small stitches, was able to save the life of Mr. James Cornish!  This with no X-rays, no antibiotics, no reliable anesthesia. Cornish spent fifty-one days in the hospital, but he lived. A surgery that had been inconceivable at the beginning of July was, by the end of September, a recognized medical possibility.

Source: Good People Doing Good Things Meets Black History Month — Dr. Dan | Filosofa’s Word

Schneeglöckchen und Krokusse – Senioren um die Welt

Schneeglöckchen und Krokusse

Jedes Jahr, noch bevor das Frühjahr beginnt, sprießen und blühen die ersten Blumen bereits ab Februar und künden durch bunte Farbtupfer in Gärten und Parks vom kommenden Frühling. Zu diesen Frühblühern, die auch als Frühlingsblüher bezeichnet werden, gehören die allseits bekannten Schneeglöckchen und Krokusse in verschiedenen Farben.

 

Source: Schneeglöckchen und Krokusse – Senioren um die Welt

The Pantanal Conservation Area, Brazil – Zaštićena oblast Pantanal, Brazil – Myrela

…Ova teritorija ima raznolike ekološke subregione: riječne kanale, guste neprohodne šume, trajne močvare i ostrva, plutajuća ostrva riječne vegetacije poznata kao kamalotes i travnate ravnice izložene sezonskom plavljenju. Glavni izvor vode u Pantanalu jeste Kujaba, rijeka duga 1.000 kilometara koja se uliva u rijeku Paragvaj…

Source: The Pantanal Conservation Area, Brazil – Zaštićena oblast Pantanal, Brazil – Myrela