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America faces potential future outbreaks as the vaccination rate declines. Photo by Uriel Mont on Pexels. — The Crawl Back to Normal With the one-month anniversary of the day the vaccine became available for all American adults swiftly approaching, there has been a significant downward trend in the vaccination rate. While experts say that the slowing vaccination rate was hardly unexpected, the numbers have declined enough to […]

Moving Forward: Tackling the Slowing Vaccination Rate

May 16, 2021 in Health tagged COVID-19 / President Biden / vaccination rate / vaccine access / vaccine availability / vaccine hesitancy by Cristin Dickey

Cases of COVID-related PTSD are expected to rise as we journey closer to herd immunity. Photo by Claudia Wolff on Unsplash. — It’s Not Over Yet With a return to normalcy pending, people are itching to mark the pandemic’s end date on their calendars. The Gallup, armed with data from the CDC and Johns Hopkins University, has estimated that herd immunity could be achieved as early as June. However, eliminating a plague […]

COVID-19 and PTSD: Mental Health Outcomes at the Dawn of ...

May 4, 2021 in Uncategorized tagged coronavirus / COVID-19 / COVID-19 and PTSD / herd immunity / PTSD / trauma healing by Cristin Dickey

herd immunity — As we are trying to find our way out of the COVID 19 pandemic and looking for protection, we have been hearing a lot from experts and news reporters about herd immunity. Herd immunity is a term that defines a majority of the population as being immune to a virus […]

Herd Immunity: What is it?

April 27, 2021 in Health / life / Medicare tagged can we reach herd immunity / COVID-19 / herd immunity / masks / social distancing / Vaccination / virus / what is herd immunity by Kayla Gonzalez

In March, President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill into law, which includes stimulus checks up to $1,400 for approximately 159 million households in the United States. Individuals could be receiving their stimulus payments as soon as this weekend and will be distributed throughout the next several […]

COVID-19 Relief Bill

March 27, 2021 in life tagged COVID-19 / pandemic / relief / Stimulus by Jeffrey Cooperstein

President Joe Biden recently issued an update on vaccine availability moving forward, as he instructed all 50 states to make COVID-19 vaccines available to every adult by May 1. Biden also set a benchmark of July 4 to get closer to normal in reopening the country. While this does not […]

Update on Vaccine Availability

March 26, 2021 in Health / life tagged COVID-19 / Moderna / Pfizer / vaccine by Jeffrey Cooperstein

Texas opens 100 Percent as Governor Greg Abbott announced last Tuesday that Texas is lifting restrictions regarding COVID-19 on March 10. According to the executive order signed by Abbott, all businesses will be allowed to open at 100 percent capacity, and the statewide mask mandate will end on the 10th. […]

Texas Opens 100 Percent

March 6, 2021 in Health / life / Medicare tagged capacity / COVID-19 / restrictions / texas by Jeffrey Cooperstein

COVID-19 numbers are trending down due to a multitude of contributing factors. According to the New York Times, the data shows that over the past 28 days, the COVID-19 Pandemic has shown encouraging signs of receding in some of its hottest spots around the globe. As of January 11, the […]

COVID-19 Numbers are Trending Down

March 5, 2021 in Health / life / Medicare tagged COVID-19 / Moderna / pandemic / Pfizer / vaccine by Jeffrey Cooperstein

The City of Dallas launched its first of multiple COVID-19 vaccination sites at Dallas’ Fair Park this week, where nearly 1,800 people got vaccinated. The city’s goal is to exceed that number each day going forward. The mega-site situated on the hallowed grounds of Fair Park did not open without […]

COVID-19 Vaccination Sites

January 28, 2021 in life tagged COVID-19 / Dallas / texas / Vaccination by Jeffrey Cooperstein

After congress initially agreed to a $900 billion stimulus package that would give Americans $600 upcoming stimulus checks, President Trump said in a video that he would not sign off on the bill unless the checks gave $2,000 to eligible Americans. This has put into question whether or not stimulus […]

Upcoming stimulus checks

December 28, 2020 in life tagged checks / congress / COVID-19 / Stimulus by Jeffrey Cooperstein

With the Pfizer vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration’s advisory panel, a COVID-19 aid package could be coming. One of the essential steps to the government providing an aid package was getting the vaccine approved and prepared to roll out to patients in a matter of days, and […]

A COVID-19 aid package could be coming

December 17, 2020 in Health / life tagged COVID-19 / government / Stimulus / vaccine by Jeffrey Cooperstein