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Best And Worst Brands Of 2020: From TikTok, The NBA, The Home Depot And Chick-fil-A...To Quibi, Facebook And The CDC

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Best And Worst Brands Of 2020: From TikTok, The NBA, The Home Depot And Chick-fil-A...To Quibi, Facebook And The CDC

This year was unprecedented for so many reasons. For most of us, our heads haven’t stopped spinning since March. For brands, this was a year when many discovered if they really had a purpose that anchored their place in the world and if their actions and experiences backed up their words and promises.

Deciding on brand winners and losers is always a challenge, but this year, I had some of the fiercest debates yet with my 450 Prophet colleagues, as brand performance took on so many more dimensions in 2020.

A number of brands were debated. We discussed the impact that Kobe and LeBron had on the world, while also talking about the Tiger King as the first COVID-19 bingeable show. The team gave a lot of love to the early COVID-19 responders, including Unilever, 3M, P&G, KFC, Chipotle and Ford, while giving equal props to those that took an authentic, purpose-based stand on social justice, such as Nike, The North Face, REI, Ben & Jerry’s, Glossier and J&J. The brands that helped us get through lockdown and changed the way we think of delivered meals and goods, including DoorDash, GrubHub, UberEats, Instacart and, “newcomers” Target and Walmart all received a lot of votes. Similarly, the streamers got a lot of mentions, from Netflix to Hulu to Peacock and Apple TV, as did the connectors in Zoom, WebEx, Teams and the slowly dying Skype.

Our team engaged in some serious conversations about the differences in responses that Uncle Ben’s (now Ben’s Original) versus Aunt Jemima (we are still waiting) took or about how we will collectively sustain the incredible Black Lives Matter momentum. Finally, others wondered what shape Brand USA will take in 2021 and how we will be talking about Pfizer and Moderna a year from now.

So, while dozens stood out, these seven received our highest marks:

Chick-fil-A

Florida, Brooksville, Chick-fil-A, fast food chicken restaurant, drive thru line due to Pandemic.

While COVID-19 crushed the restaurant industry, Chick-fil-A’s immediate response and quick innovations explain why it’s become the world’s third largest and most beloved quick-service restaurant. It endeared itself to its growing number of fans by doubling down on drive-thru speed, including expanded lanes, “face-to-face ordering” and “order ahead pick up.” It is crushing it with their Chick-fil-A One app and enhanced delivery options, accelerating new innovations such as meal kits and their famous sauces in grocery stores…all while still bringing “my pleasure” southern hospitality to life every day to millions.

Clorox

Hand sanitizer and Clorox sanitizing wipes sit on a table at a polling station in Miami, Florida, … [] U.S., on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Photographer: Jayme Gershen/Bloomberg

While this brand has long soared in our Prophet Brand Relevance Index® it took on an entirely new meaning in the virus-dominated universe of 2020. As consumers clamored for reliable ways to protect their families, the brand gracefully acknowledged supply-chain problems and shortages while becoming indispensable in our lives. With smart partnerships, like United Airlines and the Cleveland Clinic, it’s using its trustworthiness to increase sales and market share.

The Home Depot

TORONTO, April 3, 2020 — People line up with a social distance to enter a Home Depot store in … [] Toronto, Canada, April 3, 2020. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/Zou Zheng via Getty Images)

This year’s WFH trends helped propel the Home Depot’s business as “Doers Got More Done.” What helped drive and accelerate this is its investment, commitment and leadership. The Home Depot continues to lead the industry in inter-connected digital experiences and e-commerce, customer service, products and pricing. Its commitment to customer and employee safety (and giving back to the community) has been second to none in the retail industry, as has its commitment to professional customers.

TikTok

Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

While TikTok was in the news for various reasons in 2020, its incredible timing met a moment when many needed ten seconds of relief from the real world. With over 100 million users in the U.S., TikTok has rapidly become part of our cultural lexicon. TikTok’s short-form viral videos, including its dance challenges and Ocean Spray “Dreams” video, took our minds off all things serious. From a niche player to mainstream media, this renegade has become so relevant that other platforms, like Instagram with its “Reels,” are racing to catch up.

The National Basketball Association

LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA – AUGUST 27: The Black Lives Matter logo is seen on an empty court as all … [] NBA playoff games. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

In a year of so many sports disappointments, the league, individual teams and countless players have demonstrated the best reactions to both COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter. With its bubble, the NBA showed a thoughtful, empathic balance between athletic safety and happy fans. With its unapologetic embrace of racial-justice efforts, as expressed on each player’s jersey, it’s using its stage to change the hearts and minds of its strong fanbase.

Zoom

President Barack Obama “crashes” Zoom board meeting for the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

Love it. Hate it. It doesn’t matter. Triple-digit gains prove Zoom found new relevance in wildly diverse audiences, from COVID-19 stranded senior citizens to energetic preschoolers. If you didn’t know what a virtual background was or used the words “you’re on mute, Scott,” you certainly do now. With a ridiculous stock price and valuation, continuous new features and updates through Zapps (a suite of apps integrated into Zoom), as well as fun innovations like video filters, Zoom will continue to be an integral part of our lives for years to come.

Peloton

This workout-from-home brand started the year by offending an entire gender with its tone-deaf holiday ad. (Note to husbands: It’s inadvisable to tell your wife to work out more.) But as gyms around the world shut down, it understood that it had a unique opportunity to make family-room workouts an integral part of people’s health and wellness. With bikes, treadmills and increasingly appealing subscription offers (90 days free for all), Peloton hit on all cylinders in 2020.

And the brands that disappointed us the most:

Uncle Ben’s, Aunt Jemima and Land O’Lakes

LONDON: A customer’s hand taking a packet of Uncle Ben’s rice. The brand is to change the image of a … [] black farmer and could also be forced to change its name, as a reaction to a backlash over racial injustice.

While all of these storied brands announced they were making changes, it took a full-on social uprising for Mars Foods, PepsiCo and Land O’Lakes to address their decades-old history of racist brand imagery. All have done the right things in starting to address the issue. Uncle Ben has given way to Ben’s Original Rice, for example, and Land O’ Lakes has removed the Native American woman from its logo. But none have explained why it took them so long.

Boeing

The Boeing 737 MAX will take another key step in its comeback to commercial travel on December 2, … [] 2020 by attempting to reassure the public with a test flight by American Airlines conducted for the news media.

Even as the nearly two-year grounding of Boeing 737 Max comes to an end and the company moves to again sells its planes, we saw plenty to disappoint us. Not only did the safety oversights and mismanagement result in tragedies in 2018 and 2019, but it also cost as much as $25 billion. And now, it has to sell the canceled planes to airlines at steep discounts, a blow to shareholders and what was once one of the most admired names in U.S. manufacturing. COVID-19 is continuing Boeing’s misery, with global air travel falling 66 percent.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control

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In what should have been the least controversial voice in American public health, CDC leadership allowed politics to drag it away from its central aim. It bumbled COVID-19 testing. Early on, it offered vague and contradictory guidance on masks. And while it certainly isn’t entirely to blame for the epidemic of misinformation sweeping the U.S., it didn’t do enough to stop it.

Facebook

(Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Even in an industry rife with possible villains, Facebook still manages to wind up on the wrong side of history in just about everything. As a repeat offender from our 2018 list, Facebook’s role in misinformation regarding the pandemic, vaccinations and elections continued to make it harder and harder to trust the brand. Adding insult to injury, after dealing with a much deserved summer boycott, Facebook now faces a major lawsuit with the Federal Trade Commission (and 40 states) arguing it’s time to break this company up.

Quibi

People wearing masks walk past an advertisement for Quibi in a subway Station on October 22, 2020 in … [] New York City. On October 21st, Quibi’s founders announced it was shutting down its service after only six months of operation.

It could have sparked a content revolution. But Quibi, specializing in short-form content “chapters” of less than 10 minutes, failed spectacularly. In a world with fewer commuters, the idea just wasn’t compelling. Of the $1.75 billion it raised, it is returning just $350 million to investors. But we do think chief executive Meg Whitman deserves praise for pulling the plug at six months, instead of torturing both investors and the few viewers leveraging its platform.

What do you think of our list? Who would you add? Add your thoughts to the comments below.

Keep your eye out for Prophet‘s Brand Relevance Index – launching early 2021.

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italynt · 4 years

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If you want a primer in regards to what’s going on in Italy, in terms of restarting the Serie A season, then here’s a good article to read.

Here’s an overview of everything that’s been going on from James Horncastle at The Athletic:

It’s now almost two months since Sassuolo striker Francesco Caputo celebrated his goal against Brescia by lifting up his jersey to reveal the message “Stay at Home” on a T-shirt underneath.

It feels like a long time ago, doesn’t it? So how close are we to football resuming in Serie A?

What is the situation in Italy now?

Last weekend, Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced the government is ready to begin the next phase of easing the country back to normality. Aspects of lockdown will be relaxed on May 4 allowing 4.5 million people to go back to work. Citizens will have freedom of movement within their own region. Restaurants and bars will be able to deliver takeaway. Exercise in parks and even a dip in the sea is permitted as long as social-distancing guidelines are respected. But the new decree has not escaped criticism. Opposition parties think the government is still being too cautious. Some regions like the Veneto are breaking ranks and lifting measures earlier than others. Bishops are protesting the ban on public masses and football feels it is being unfairly treated.

Why does football feel victimised?

Well, individual athletes like swimmers, cyclists and sprinters can return to training next Monday. Team sports will have to wait at least until May 18 and only if the protocol passes muster with the government’s scientific committee. This has sparked controversy because footballers cannot even train on their own or at a distance from each other within the controlled environment of a deep-cleaned training facility. What they can do is go for a jog or a workout in the local park — where members of the public may be inclined to approach them in breach of social distancing rules. “So we’ll have Ciro Immobile and Edin Dzeko in Villa Borghese and Lorenzo Insigne on the Caracciolo boardwalk,” scoffed Lazio owner Claudio Lotito.

It doesn’t make any sense. Many of the clubs are exasperated. The players’ union (AIC) said in a statement it was “perplexed and surprised” by a decision it considers “illogical” and “discriminatory”. Serie A stopped earlier than the other top five leagues. It has more fixtures to fulfil and stands to lose £620 million if the season isn’t brought to a close. La Repubblica quoted Napoli’s president Aurelio De Laurentiis saying: “COVID-19 will end up making the middle and smaller clubs who live beyond their means disappear.” It’s not hard to see why the league and the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) are pushing hard to at least prepare their teams for any return. “I do not want to be Italian football’s gravedigger,” said Gabriele Gravina, the president of the FIGC.

But as with everything in Italy it is deeply political and the pushback has been considerable. Italy’s highest-profile female athlete, the swimmer Federica Pellegrini, said: “All I hear about is football and I’m disappointed by that, other sports exist too”. Similarly, the president of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) Giovanni Malago said: “Sport is not just and cannot only be Serie A football.”

The FIGC is an affiliate of CONI and football obtains more funding than any other sport. What Malago says matters. He believes football has muddled its response to the pandemic — “Gravina talks about July, August, September, October, even about splitting the league into two groups with play-offs and play-outs” — which further damages the game’s reputation. Ultimately, the decision lies with the government, but relations between the FIGC, Serie A and the minister of sport, Vincenzo Spadafora, have been tense.

Why are relations strained between Italy’s sporting bodies?

For a start, Spadafora hasn’t always toed the party line. In March, he sparked chaos at the Stadio Ennio Tardini, where Parma’s match at home to SPAL was due to go ahead in accordance with a government decree, which had been signed the night before. However, with players waiting in the tunnel, Spadafora announced the league needed to shut down with immediate effect. The game was delayed for an hour and 15 minutes while officials checked whether the order had been changed. It hadn’t and Parma-SPAL kicked off. “Instead of indulging in demagoguery, be consistent with the actions of your own government” came the reply from Serie A president Paolo Dal Pino.

It wasn’t pretty then and things aren’t any rosier now. Spadafora has called out club owners for using the media to influence opinion and force his hand. “We have to start safely,” he said on Tuesday. “Do you remember when the league didn’t want to stop? How many teams ended up in quarantine?” The answer is six. To avoid that happening again, the FIGC has drawn up a 47-page protocol document, seen by The Athletic, with the aim of protecting the players, coaches, referees and other members of staff from contagion.

How will they protect the players and everyone else?

The protocol document contains lots of advice from leaders in the medical field. In addition to the FIGC’s own 12-person scientific committee, the protocol has had substantial input from a task force comprising four experts in infectious diseases and virology. The protocol recommends squads should be selected three to four days before training resumes. The players and essential coaching staff in this group will then undergo an initial screening phase. This entails a visit to a clinic, a temperature check and an up-to-date medical history. Let’s pick a player at random. Say, Brescia’s Mario Balotelli: the FIGC wants to know if he’s travelled in the last two months and where to, whether or not he’s been in contact with anyone who has tested positive for the virus, and whether he’s showing any symptoms.

Depending on certain criteria, the group will be given two RT-PCR tests within 24 hours of each other and an antibody test. The expense and availability of testing — not to mention the morality of rolling them out for one category of society — remains a bone of contention. “The request on the players’ part is for football to resume only when every citizen can have a test,” Tommasi said. “There mustn’t be any fast-track for our industry.” As you might expect with a medical, there will be a resting ECG (to measure heart health), a spirometry (to measure breathing capacity), and blood and urine tests. The protocol is especially mindful of the latest medical advice on the damage left by COVID-19 and the therapies used to treat it on a person’s lungs and the heart. Even after screening is over, the group will have daily temperature checks and be constantly assessed for symptoms.

A permanent “ritiro” — a place for players and staff to live on-site — is also recommended. A number of clubs have dorms or even hotels adjoining their training grounds. When the Melia hotel closed in Milan as part of the lockdown measures, Christian Eriksen temporarily moved into Inter’s Appiano Gentile training ground. The problem is 11 of the 20 teams don’t have lodgings, so completely isolating the group isn’t possible across the board. However, the other nine clubs are meant to allocate players single, well-ventilated rooms where they will shower after their distancing-adapted training sessions.

Everyone in the group will be given behavioural guidelines to follow, ranging from washing hands to PPE for masseurs and physios. Treatment tables will be spaced out and time slots allocated to avoid congestion. If the enforcement of social distancing means there isn’t space in a team meeting, the preference is for a video conference instead. Food in the canteen will be self-service only.

As for training itself, the first week foresees individuals or small groups working out more than two metres apart before a gradual return to normality in week two and week three, with players running through patterns of play, set-pieces and playing small-sided games.

If someone does test positive, they are to be isolated immediately. Training will be suspended until the team and coaching staff receive the all-clear from two tests taken 24 hours apart and antibody tests will be repeated within five and seven days of each other. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the government’s scientific committee raised a red flag at this part of the protocol on the basis that, up until now, one positive test has been enough to send clubs into quarantine for a fortnight. This is a dilemma faced by all leagues hoping to finish the season.

Then there’s the not insignificant matter of away games and travel: it’s one thing limiting external contact within a training facility you own, it’s another thing doing it on the road. Fourteen of Serie A’s 20 clubs are located in areas that were defined “hotbeds” in Italy’s fight against the pandemic.

The outlook’s bleak then?

Gravina said: “In order to run zero risks, we’d have to wait for a vaccine. According to the scientists, that won’t be until spring 2021. We can’t just shut everything down waiting for that to happen.” Dialogue between the FIGC and the government’s scientific committee remains open, with Gravina vowing to modify the protocol in a renewed effort to at least obtain consent for teams to return to training on May 18.

Spadafora grows more pessimistic by the day, however. He talks about the road back to football getting tighter and tighter with only a “spiraglio” — the smallest of openings — left for it to happen. Gravina’s decision to align himself with UEFA and make August 3 the cut-off point for domestic competitions to finish puts Italian football on the clock. Serie A has proposed proroguing expiring contracts until after the season concludes. If the league returns to training in less than three weeks and games start from mid-June, that sounds like a good idea. But that’s a big if.

Spadafora has appealed to the leagues to come up with a Plan B. “I am starting to get the idea there will be a surprise over the next few days,” he told free-to-air TV channel La7. “Presidents could soon ask me to end the season now so they can prepare for the next one.” Brescia’s owner Massimo Cellino has repeatedly declared the season over. His counterparts at Torino and Sampdoria, Urbano Cairo and Massimo Ferrero, have both expressed scepticism plans to return — they fear finishing this season may compromise the next one.

What are the players doing in the meantime?

Well, Lazio’s Marco Parolo has been using his free time away from the training ground to protest that players should be allowed in the training ground. “All professional athletes should be treated the same,” he told the club’s official radio station. “I’m our athletes’ No 1 fan at the World Championships, and I’m all for them going back to training, but I think footballers should, too.”

For now though the players continue to work out at home.

“It’s difficult to expect a player to be able to maintain the necessary fitness to play in Serie A after a prolonged period of inactivity,” Sampdoria’s head of performance, Paolo Bertelli, tells The Athletic. “We’re trying to keep the fitness of our players to the highest standards as much as we possibly can.” Samp’s players have workout classes six days a week. “The sessions last between 65 and 80 minutes each depending on the player and the day of the week,” Bertelli says. “In addition to a warm-up, we do some free-weight exercises — some core, some jumps — hop on the exercise bike and work with the resistance bands. The players who have a running machine get a workout for that. It’s a bit different for the goalkeepers because we need to keep their explosiveness and strength.”

Roma’s goalkeeper Pau Lopez logs onto Roma’s bespoke platform to access all the material he needs for his day. “Every day the fitness coach sends us a customised workout plan that we have to follow to stay in shape,” the Spaniard tells The Athletic. “We weigh ourselves on a daily basis and send the info to the nutritionist. He keeps us posted, especially if there’s a problem. It’s all very well planned out.”

Manolo Zubiria, Roma’s chief global sporting officer, goes into more detail. “We set up a communication platform that allows the club’s directors and coaching staff to video conference with the players. It’s not just those in the first team either, but all levels, including our women’s team. Internal comms are fundamental. We want to give everyone as much support as possible in terms of info and assistance, whether it’s to do with fitness or nutrition. To that end, we are ensuring our players receive all the necessary material for home workouts. In terms of grocery shopping, we have also sorted a delivery service. We can’t predict what will happen in the coming weeks but our objective is for the lads to be in the best shape possible when training resumes.”

What’s the state of play in the table?

Juventus reclaimed top spot with their 2-0 win against Inter on March 8 and have a slender one-point lead over Lazio. Lotito is against the idea of play-offs to decide the top four — “Inter have eight points less than us (in third) and Atalanta have 14” — but he would be up for settling the title in a one-off game against the Old Lady, who, he points out, Lazio have already beaten on two occasions this season (in the league and the Super Cup). Atalanta occupy the last Champions League place and have a three-point advantage over Roma, plus a game in hand and a superior head-to-head record.

As for the Europa League, Milan are outside the top six but could still qualify through the Coppa Italia if they were to turn around a first-leg semi-final defeat to Juventus (without Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Theo Hernandez, who are suspended) and overcome either Inter or Napoli in the final. Down at the bottom, Brescia (10 points adrift of safety) and SPAL (seven) were already hanging by a thread, which is why, to some observers, it’d make sense for them to trade places with Crotone and Pippo Inzaghi’s Benevento, the two teams in the automatic promotion places in Serie B.

If that was the case, you’d have some sympathy for Inzaghi’s former Milan team-mate Alessandro Nesta. The former centre-back is now managing Frosinone, who were in second until the most recent round of fixtures, when Crotone took their spot.

But as one Serie A executive put it to The Athletic, if the season isn’t concluded on the pitch, there is “no right answer” to satisfy everyone’s definition of fairness.

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New Brunswick reports 60 new COVID-19 cases Saturday, active count drops to 551

New Brunswick is reporting 60 new COVID-19 cases and 89 recoveries as the active number of cases drop to 551.

Of the new cases, 39 – or 65 per cent – are unvaccinated, and 21 – or 35 per cent – are fully vaccinated.

There are 11 people in an intensive care unit, including nine that are unvaccinated, one that is partially vaccinated, and one that is fully vaccinated.

There are 22 people in hospital, including the 11 in intensive care.

"Of the 22 in hospital, 16 are unvaccinated, one partially vaccinated and five are fully vaccinated. There is currently no one 19 or under in the hospital," public health said in a release.

VACCINATION UPDATE AND BOOSTERS

Public Health reported today that 86.5 per cent of eligible New Brunswickers are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and 93.1 per cent have received their first dose of a vaccine.

Health-care personnel – including those working in long-term care facilities – and residents of First Nations communities can now book an appointment to receive an mRNA COVID-19 booster dose if six months have passed since their second dose of a vaccine.

People 65 and older and school personnel are permitted to book an appointment to receive an mRNA COVID-19 booster dose if six months have passed since their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Fully vaccinated people who have received one or two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in their series are permitted to book an appointment to receive an mRNA booster dose if 28 days have passed since their second dose.

International travellers with mixed first two doses of vaccine products are eligible to book an appointment to receive a booster dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. This applies to anyone who must travel outside of North America for work, education or medical procedures. A booster dose of an mRNA vaccine will be available as long as a 28-day interval has passed since their previous dose.

Appointments for first and second doses, as well as a booster dose for those eligible, can be scheduled for a regional health authority community COVID-19 vaccination clinic through the online booking system or at a participating pharmacy. Residents of First Nations communities can also book an appointment at a community clinic.

OUTBREAK DECLARED AT THREE FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITIES

Public Health has declared outbreaks at Metepenagiag First Nation (Red Bank), Natoaganeg First Nation (Eel Ground), and Esgenoôpetitj First Nation (Burnt Church).

Following confirmation of positive cases, members of the Provincial Rapid Outbreak Management Team were deployed to assist those communities with testing.

There are two confirmed cases at Metepenagiag First Nation (Red Bank), four confirmed cases at Natoaganeg First Nation (Eel Ground), and eight confirmed cases at Esgenoôpetitj First Nation (Burnt Church).

CIRCUIT BREAKERS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF ZONE 1 AND ZONE 7

The circuit breaker has been extended until Friday, Nov. 19 for the municipalities of Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview in Zone 1.

On Friday, a 14-day circuit breaker was put in place for all of Zone 7 (Miramichi region) with the exception of Black River Bridge and communities to the east, Murray Settlement and areas south, and New Jersey and communities north.

Enforcement is being increased to ensure those who are supposed to be isolating are doing so and that gatherings of multiple households are not taking place.

REGIONAL BREAKDOWN OF NEW CASES

The 17 new cases in Zone 1 (Moncton region) are as follows:

seven people 19 and under;

two people 20-29;

a person 30-39;

a person 40-49;

two people 60-69; and

four people 70-79.

Fourteen cases are under investigation and three cases are contacts of previously confirmed cases.

The 14 new cases in Zone 2 (Saint John region) are as follows:

four people 19 and under;

two people 20-29;

a person 30-39;

four people 40-49;

two people 60-69; and

a person 80-89.

Six cases are contacts of previously confirmed cases and eight cases are under investigation.

The eight new cases in Zone 3 (Fredericton region) are as follows:

three people 20-29;

two people 30-39;

a person 50-59; and

two people 70-79.

Six cases are under investigation and two are contacts of previously confirmed cases.

The three cases in Zone 6 (Bathurst region) are as follows:

a person 40-49;

a person 50-59; and

a person 60-69.

All three cases are under investigation.

The 18 new cases in Zone 7 (Miramichi region) are as follows:

seven people 19 and under;

two people 20-29;

three people 30-39;

a person 40-49;

three people 50-59; and

two people 70-79.

Sixteen cases are under investigation and two are contacts of previously confirmed cases.

POTENTIAL PUBLIC EXPOSURES

Anyone with two or more symptoms of the virus is urged to request a test online to get an appointment.

If you have been at the site of a possible public exposure, but remain asymptomatic, you may be able to pick up a rapid-screening kit.

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What Do Women Want? For Men to Get Covid Vaccines. Holly Elgison and Len Schillaci are a mixed vaxxed couple, and they are far from alone. “I was always going to get the vaccine, 100 percent,” said Ms. Elgison, a medical claims auditor in Valrico, Fla. Her husband, a disaster insurance adjuster, said he will pass. “To be honest with you, I think that the worst of Covid is behind us,” Mr. Schillaci said. “I’m good.” As the Biden administration seeks to get 80 percent of adult Americans immunized by summer, the continuing reluctance of men to get a shot could impede that goal. Women are getting vaccinated at a far higher rate — about 10 percentage points — than men, even though the male-female divide is roughly even in the nation’s overall population. The trend is worrisome to many, especially as vaccination rates have dipped a bit recently. The reasons for the U.S. gender gap are many, reflecting the role of women in specific occupations that received early vaccine priority, political and cultural differences and long standing patterns of women embracing preventive care more often generally than men. The gap exists even as Covid-19 deaths worldwide have been about 2.4 times higher for men than among women. And the division elucidates the reality of women’s disproportionate role in caring for others in American society. “It could matter to localized herd immunity,” said Alison Buttenheim, an associate professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania and expert on vaccine hesitancy. “While most experts are fretting about larger gaps by race, political party, religion and occupational group,” she said, many of which overlap with the gender disparities, “I haven’t heard of any specific initiatives to target men.” In Los Angeles County, where 44 percent of women over 16 have gotten their first shot — compared with 30 percent of men — officials are scrambling to figure out how to do just that. “We are very concerned about it and are planning to embark on some targeted outreach among men,” said Dr. Paul Simon, the chief science officer at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, who said that the disparities are of particular concern for Black and Latino men. Only 19 percent of Black males in Los Angeles County and 17 percent of Latino males have received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared with 35 percent of Asian men and 32 percent of white men, according to the most recent data available from early this month. “We don’t fully understand it,” Dr. Simon said. “One of our messaging strategies will be that the vaccine is not only important for you but, in addition, is a means of protecting others in your family.” The early divisions in vaccine rates by gender could largely be explained by demographics. Americans over 70 got the first sets of doses, and women make up a larger proportion of that age group. In many states, health care workers and schoolteachers were also given vaccine priority: Women account for three-quarters of full-time health care workers and over 75 percent of public schoolteachers in the United States are female. The disparities show both where women do the paid and unpaid labor of life. For instance, women lost the majority of the earliest jobs in food services, retail businesses, health care and government jobs. The mothers among them have done most of the work in the shift to remote schooling and caring for parents and sick relatives. The combination may have increased their vaccine motivation in two ways: They are seeking to protect the rest of their family and they are desperate to get back in the work force. Indeed, just as women drove the job losses last year, they are leading the economic recovery now; roughly half a million women joined the labor force in March, in part because in-person schooling has resumed across much of the country. Updated April 22, 2021, 1:32 p.m. ET “In addition to women being disproportionately represented in several essential jobs,” said Pilar Gonalons-Pons, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania who specializes in gender issues, “they are also disproportionately represented as unpaid caregivers for older adults in their families and communities, and this can also be an additional motivation for getting the vaccine.” In many ways, the pattern with vaccines reflects longstanding gender differences when it comes to preventive health care. Women are on average more likely to get annual physicals than men, even when adjusted for pre-existing health conditions and other factors, and are more likely than men to get preventive care. Men are more likely than women to engage in behaviors that hurt their health — like heavy drinking, smoking and illicit drug use — and are more overweight compared to women. Men are less likely to visit doctors regularly and go to the emergency room in a crisis and to get basic dental care, according to federal data. Vaccines are no exception: Historically, influenza vaccination is much higher among females — about 63 percent compared to 53 percent — though the gap narrows in Americans over 75 years old. The coronavirus vaccine “is the latest expression of the tried-and-true gender gap we’ve long witnessed in preventive health care seeking patterns,” said Lindsey Leininger, a health policy researcher and clinical professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. But experts say that even in the context of general male health care recalcitrance, there may be some factors that are specific to this vaccine that are preventing more male shots in arms. Because the sign up has been cumbersome and confusing, men may have had less patience in navigating the system, which has largely taken place online, a process that women might find easier since they tend to get more of their health care information online. “We have to figure out if disparities are about access, if men are having more difficulty navigating the appointment systems,” Mr. Simon of Los Angeles said. Further, when it comes to the coronavirus — which has been the subject of rampant misinformation, evolving medical advice and politicization — other dynamics may be at work. “Some men have a sense that they are not necessarily susceptible,” Mr. Simon said health care workers have told officials. “They have weathered this for more than a year and have a sense of omnipotence.” Public health and academic experts have been long concerned with the “macho” effect that prevents men from getting all sorts of health care, and fear that it might be exacerbated with this vaccine. (Notably, in the most male service branch of the military, the Marines, about 40 percent of those who were offered the vaccine by the Defense Department have turned it down.) “This avoidance has been linked to masculinity ideals of men being strong, invincible and not asking for help,” said Kristen W. Springer, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University in New Jersey who has done research on this trait. “In other words, these cultural ideals lead men to avoid important health care in order to act masculine,” she said. “Now that the vaccine is available to everyone, it will be interesting to watch male-female differences in vaccine uptake, because these will more likely reflect social and cultural ideas about gender and health, such as the cultural idea that ‘real men’ don’t need preventive health care.” At this stage, U.S. health authorities have not released data on nonbinary adults and vaccination. There may also be political connections. Women are far more likely than men to register as Democrats, and polls demonstrate that Republicans across the country have been far less likely than Democrats to embrace the vaccine. So who will men listen to? Not their wives and female friends or doctors, it seems. For their recent preprint study, Leah Witus and Erik Larson, professors at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn., watched videos with men and women that featured identical information about the vaccine. Among the 1,184 Americans who watched them, most were positively influenced by the male narrator while the female narrator got a far more mixed response. “The male-narrated version of the video increased vaccination intention in viewers,” said Ms. Witus, “but the female-narrated had mixed associations with vaccine propensity, and in some viewers, those that identified as conservative, actually decreased vaccination intention.” This may spell victory for Mr. Schillaci as he and his wife subtly joust for influence over their 20-year-old son’s vaccination decision. Mr. Schillaci has been sharing his views with his son, whom his wife is prodding to take a shot. “I would rather he got the shot, and I hope that he’ll consider it,” said Ms. Elgison. But Ms. Elgison’s own decision may benefit her son, even if he decides against the vaccine. As often happens in life, men may find their gaps covered by women. “To the extent most people live and socialize in a mixed-gender setting, the men will benefit from the higher coverage among women,” Ms. Buttenheim said. Ms. Elgison, however, still has a trump card she hopes might work. “I would like my son to get it so we can all travel together,” she said. “I explained to him that it’s possible that we could protect his dad.” Source link Orbem News #Covid #men #Vaccines #Women

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Chicago to Update Coronavirus Emergency Travel Order Tuesday

Chicago is set to update its emergency travel order on Tuesday, detailing where states currently stand under the guidelines for travelers to quarantine or test negative for COVID-19 prior to their arrival in the city.

In its last update two weeks ago, the city included 26 states in the order's "orange tier," which requires a quarantine or pre-arrival negative test before coming to Chicago.

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The lesser yellow tier included 23 states as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Which tier states fall into depends on case rate adjusted for population.

Here's a look at where each state stood as of the last update in March:

23 yellow states and 2 territories: Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, Mississippi, New Mexico, Indiana, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nevada, Kansas, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Washington, California, Wyoming, Missouri, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Utah, Arizona, Texas, Nebraska, District of Columbia, and Kentucky

26 orange states: New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Florida, Delaware, Georgia, Connecticut, Colorado, North Carolina, Vermont, Alabama, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Alaska, Virginia, New Hampshire, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, Michigan, West Virginia, Maryland, and Maine

While health officials urged residents to avoid travel if possible, the requirements for each category are as follows:

Yellow: States with a rolling 7-day average less than 15 cases/day/100k residents.

No quarantine or pre-arrival test required. Maintain strict masking, social distancing and avoidance of in-person gatherings

Orange: States have a rolling 7-day average above 15 cases/day/100k residents

10-day quarantine OR pre-arrival negative test no more than 72 hours before arrival in Chicago with strict masking, social distancing and avoidance of in-person gatherings

Be fully vaccinated, as defined as two weeks after the second dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine or two weeks after one dose of a single-dose vaccine and not have symptoms

As of Tuesday, both the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois' coronavirus metrics would place them in the orange tier - though officials have repeatedly said the travel order requirements will not apply to residents of other parts of Illinois who are entering Chicago.

Chicago Travel Order Update: 24 States and DC Now on List Requiring Quarantine or Negative COVID Test

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Chicago is seeing a rolling average of 22 new cases per 100,000 residents according to the city's latest coronavirus data, while the state of Illinois is seeing 16.6 new cases per 100,000 residents - both above the 15 case threshold.

City health officials updated the order in February to exempt anyone fully vaccinated and without COVID-19 symptoms from the quarantine or test requirement to bring the policy in alignment with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health.

"Fully vaccinated is defined as being at least two weeks after receipt of the second dose in a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine series or at least two weeks after receipt of one dose of a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine," CDPH said in a statement at the time.

"Fully vaccinated travelers must monitor their health for 14 days after travel and if they experience symptoms potentially consistent with COVID-19, they must self-isolate until clinical evaluation and COVID testing," CDPH continued. "They also must continue to adhere to all recommended protective measures including wearing a mask (and using job-specific personal protective equipment), maintaining physical distance, practicing hand hygiene, and avoiding crowds."

Health officials still recommended canceling all non-essential travel, vaccinated or not, and noted in the order's last update in March that cases in Chicago had gone up in recent weeks.

"Chicago’s case rate has increased in the past few weeks," CDPH said in a statement on March 23. "This is a time to double down on what we know works to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This includes wearing a mask, maintaining social distancing, washing your hands and staying at home as much as you can. Chicago residents are strongly advised to cancel non-essential travel."

The emergency travel order requiring a quarantine for travelers from certain locations was first issued in July in an effort to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus and has been modified several times since. It's now updated every other Tuesday, with changes taking effect the following Friday.

The guidelines and restrictions for the emergency order changed in January to the two-tiered system categorizing states as either orange or yellow and eliminating a previous "red" category.

The city said it hopes to simply educate travelers about the order, but those found in violation could be subject to fines of between $100 and $500 per day, up to $7,000.

"The quarantine and pre-arrival testing requirements apply to people even if they have no COVID-19 symptoms," the city's health department said in a statement last month announcing the order's update.

Exceptions can be made for travel for medical care, parental shared custody and business travel for essential workers. It also does not apply to an individual passing through states for less than 24 hours over the course of travel, including layovers at airport or people driving through a particular state. Daily commuters to and from neighboring states are also exempt.

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U.K. variant of the coronavirus spreads in California

Even as coronavirus cases are going down, officials are expressing growing concern about the dominance of a variant first identified in Britain that is believed to be 50% more transmissible than the conventional variety.

Officials predict the B.1.1.7 variant will become the dominant coronavirus nationwide by the end of March. There are at least 693 cases in 33 states, with the highest numbers in Florida (201) and California (153).

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The U.K. variant has been identified in San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Alameda, San Mateo and Yolo counties.

L.A. County officials Monday confirmed the fourth and fifth cases of the B.1.1.7 variant. Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said it’s clear that there’s a fair number of mutant strains circulating in L.A. County.

If we have a more infectious virus, Ferrer said, “it just makes it easier for people to get infected ... The variants are concerning, because if we let our guard down, the more infectious strains can become dominant. And that just makes it a lot easier for this virus to spread.”

Orange County on Monday confirmed its first case of the U.K. variant in a resident who reported no international travel history, “which means there are likely more cases in OC,” the Health Care Agency tweeted. Officials on Monday also confirmed the first case of the U.K. variant in the Sacramento region — in Yolo County, west of Sacramento — after an individual was determined to have the strain and “may have acquired the variant through travel outside the community,” according to a statement issued by UC Davis and the city of Davis.

At least 138 cases of the U.K. variant have been confirmed in San Diego County, with 50 probable cases there. A UC San Diego scientist has warned government officials that the U.K. strain is so transmissible that its spread — combined with the rejection of mask use and physical distancing guidelines, as occurred across California in the fall — could result in an even worse surge within two months than occurred in the winter.

The currently available vaccines are believed to be highly effective against both the conventional variety of the coronavirus and the U.K. strain. There is, however, concern about diminished effectiveness of the current vaccines against a strain first identified in South Africa, B.1.351, which has been identified in six people in three states — Maryland, South Carolina and Virginia.

Officials and scientists are working on a booster shot, if needed, that could be useful against new variants.

Neither the South African variant nor a closely related variant first identified in Brazil, P.1, have been identified thus far in California. The P.1 variant has been identified in two people in Minnesota and one person in Oklahoma.

Another Brazilian variant, known as P.2, has been identified in California at Stanford’s Clinical Virology Laboratory, according to Dr. Benjamin Pinsky, the laboratory’s medical director. The P.2 variant is distinct from the P.1 variant also detected in Brazil that was linked to an abrupt resurgence in cases in Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon region, that took place after much of the population was already believed to have been infected.

Both Brazilian variants share a mutation that appears to help the virus evade antibodies generated by either a previous infection or a vaccine. There are at least two examples of people being infected with the P.2 variant after they had been infected by another strain, a feat that has been demonstrated by P.1 and multiple other coronavirus strains. That finding has led researchers to theorize that P.2 may have similar properties as the P.1 variant, he said.

In California, officials have identified more than 1,200 cases of a pair of so-called West Coast variants, B.1.427 and B.1.429, that have comprised a significant share of genomically sequenced virus samples analyzed in California in recent months. Scientists are reviewing whether the West Coast variants are more transmissible than the regular variety of the coronavirus. The West Coast variants have since been detected in at least 25 other states.

“The continued proliferation of variants remains of grave concern and is a threat that could reverse the recent positive trends we are seeing,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday at a news conference of the White House COVID-19 Response Team.

She urged people to continue wearing masks and staying six feet apart from people outside your household. “Avoid travels, crowds and poorly ventilated spaces. And get vaccinated when it’s available to you,” Walensky said.

A travel advisory remains in effect in L.A. County, recommending against any nonessential travel 120 miles outside the county, especially for travel considered tourism or recreational in nature. Anyone arriving in L.A. County from other states or countries for non-essential travel must self-quarantine for 10 days after arrival.

“Our progress can easily be undone, and it takes less than 15 minutes of exposure to someone with COVID for someone to get sick themselves,” L.A. County Supervisor Hilda Solis said.

With the critical shortage of vaccines, there has been considerable public discussion about whether officials should begin to try to vaccinate as many people as possible with the first dose, rather than ensuring one-time administration of second doses, which are given three or four weeks after the first shot, depending on the brand.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious-diseases expert, said delaying the second dose for too long on a widespread scale could actually invite more problematic mutants to arise.

“We feel the optimum approach would be to continue with getting as many people on their first dose as possible, but also making sure that people — on time — get their second dose,” Fauci said.

Officials have also said they expect vaccine shortages to ease in the coming months, with the likely introduction of a vaccine manufactured by Johnson & Johnson in March, which requires only a single dose and is easier to manufacture than the two-dose inoculations made by Pfizer and Moderna.

It will probably take a couple of weeks before it becomes clear if there is a bump in coronavirus cases because of gatherings held on Super Bowl Sunday. But so far, trends are continuing to improve.

As of Monday, the average number of coronavirus cases reported in California over the past week was about 13,000 a day, a 70% decrease from the average number for the week that ended Jan. 10, when California was recording nearly 45,000 cases a day. Still, the number of daily cases is substantially worse than it was in early October, when California was recording about 3,000 coronavirus cases a day.

COVID-19 hospitalizations are also down from a high of nearly 22,000 in California to about 11,000 as of Sunday, although that number is still far worse than the roughly 2,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in early October.

Hospitals in L.A. County still remain very crowded and still have limited available capacity in the intensive care units. But California lifted its order prohibiting nonessential surgeries and procedures in the hardest hit counties late last week, and in L.A. County, crowding in emergency rooms has eased, L.A. County Health Services Director Dr. Christina Ghaly said Monday.

The percentage of coronavirus test results coming back positive in California has fallen from a winter high of 14%, recorded for the seven-day period that ended Jan. 7, down to about 5% for the weekly period that ended Monday. That’s the lowest figure since mid-November but still double the amount from the first week of October, when the positivity rate was 2.42%.

Average daily COVID-19 deaths still remain high in California, but appear to be trending downward. The peak occurred over a seven-day period that ended Jan. 27, when California was averaging 562 COVID-19 deaths a day; by Monday, that number had fallen to 450 deaths a day. In early October, California was averaging about 75 COVID-19 deaths a day.

California has cumulatively reported about 3.4 million coronavirus cases and more than 44,400 COVID-19 deaths. On a per capita basis, with about 113 deaths per 100,000 residents, California has the 34th highest cumulative death rate of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

The 10 states with the highest cumulative COVID-19 death rates are New Jersey (248 deaths per 100,000 residents), New York (229), Massachusetts (220), Mississippi (210), Rhode Island (209), South Dakota (209), Arizona (202), Connecticut (201), Louisiana (196) and North Dakota (193).

According to The Times’ COVID-19 vaccination tracker, 9.6% of Californians have received at least one dose of vaccine. Over the last seven days, about 175,000 doses per day have been administered across California; that’s double the rate from mid-January.

Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, sounded the alarm about the rise of the U.K. variant over the weekend because of how much more contagious it is, saying on Twitter on Sunday, “It can quickly overwhelm a nation.”

He noted that the U.K. strain in Ireland was starting to circulate in mid-December and within three weeks, the number of new coronavirus cases more than quadrupled, and Ireland went into what he called a full lockdown by the end of December. “Our holiday ‘surge’ was small in comparison,” Jha said.

“Most public health experts expect a spike from B.1.1.7,” Jha tweeted. “We need to act very quickly if we see infections starting to inch up.”

He cited a study that has not yet been peer reviewed, coauthored by scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, UC San Francisco, UC San Diego and UCLA, that found the U.K. strain entered the U.S. as early as November, “with onward community transmission enabling the variant spread to at least 30 states as of January.” It added weight to a CDC forecast that the U.K. strain was on track to be the dominant strain in the U.S. by the end of March.

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What Do Women Want? For Men to Get Covid Vaccines. Holly Elgison and Len Schillaci are a mixed vaxxed couple, and they are far from alone. “I was always going to get the vaccine, 100 percent,” said Ms. Elgison, a medical claims auditor in Valrico, Fla. Her husband, a disaster insurance adjuster, said he will pass. “To be honest with you, I think that the worst of Covid is behind us,” Mr. Schillaci said. “I’m good.” As the Biden administration seeks to get 80 percent of adult Americans immunized by summer, the continuing reluctance of men to get a shot could impede that goal. Women are getting vaccinated at a far higher rate — about 10 percentage points — than men, even though the male-female divide is roughly even in the nation’s overall population. The trend is worrisome to many, especially as vaccination rates have dipped a bit recently. The reasons for the U.S. gender gap are many, reflecting the role of women in specific occupations that received early vaccine priority, political and cultural differences and long standing patterns of women embracing preventive care more often generally than men. The gap exists even as Covid-19 deaths worldwide have been about 2.4 times higher for men than among women. And the division elucidates the reality of women’s disproportionate role in caring for others in American society. “It could matter to localized herd immunity,” said Alison Buttenheim, an associate professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania and expert on vaccine hesitancy. “While most experts are fretting about larger gaps by race, political party, religion and occupational group,” she said, many of which overlap with the gender disparities, “I haven’t heard of any specific initiatives to target men.” In Los Angeles County, where 44 percent of women over 16 have gotten their first shot — compared with 30 percent of men — officials are scrambling to figure out how to do just that. “We are very concerned about it and are planning to embark on some targeted outreach among men,” said Dr. Paul Simon, the chief science officer at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, who said that the disparities are of particular concern for Black and Latino men. Only 19 percent of Black males in Los Angeles County and 17 percent of Latino males have received at least one dose of vaccine, compared with 35 percent of Asian men and 32 percent of white men, according to the most recent data available from early this month. “We don’t fully understand it,” Dr. Simon said. “One of our messaging strategies will be that the vaccine is not only important for you but, in addition, is a means of protecting others in your family.” The early divisions in vaccine rates by gender could largely be explained by demographics. Americans over 70 got the first sets of doses, and women make up a larger proportion of that age group. In many states, health care workers and schoolteachers were also given vaccine priority: Women account for three-quarters of full-time health care workers and over 75 percent of public schoolteachers in the United States are female. The disparities show both where women do the paid and unpaid labor of life. For instance, women lost the majority of the earliest jobs in food services, retail businesses, health care and government jobs. The mothers among them have done most of the work in the shift to remote schooling and caring for parents and sick relatives. The combination may have increased their vaccine motivation in two ways: They are seeking to protect the rest of their family and they are desperate to get back in the work force. Indeed, just as women drove the job losses last year, they are leading the economic recovery now; roughly half a million women joined the labor force in March, in part because in-person schooling has resumed across much of the country. Updated April 22, 2021, 9:03 a.m. ET “In addition to women being disproportionately represented in several essential jobs,” said Pilar Gonalons-Pons, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania who specializes in gender issues, “they are also disproportionately represented as unpaid caregivers for older adults in their families and communities, and this can also be an additional motivation for getting the vaccine.” In many ways, the pattern with vaccines reflects longstanding gender differences when it comes to preventive health care. Women are on average more likely to get annual physicals than men, even when adjusted for pre-existing health conditions and other factors, and are more likely than men to get preventive care. Men are more likely than women to engage in behaviors that hurt their health — like heavy drinking, smoking and illicit drug use — and are more overweight compared to women. Men are less likely to visit doctors regularly and go to the emergency room in a crisis and to get basic dental care, according to federal data. Vaccines are no exception: Historically, influenza vaccination is much higher among females — about 63 percent compared to 53 percent — though the gap narrows in Americans over 75 years. The coronavirus vaccine “is the latest expression of the tried-and-true gender gap we’ve long witnessed in preventive health care seeking patterns,” said Lindsey Leininger, a health policy researcher and clinical professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. But experts say that even in the context of general male health care recalcitrance, there may be some factors that are specific to this vaccine that are preventing more male shots in arms. Because the sign up has been cumbersome and confusing, men may have had less patience in navigating the system, which has largely taken place online, a process that women might find easier since they tend to get more of their health care information online. “We have to figure out if disparities are about access, if men are having more difficulty navigating the appointment systems,” Mr. Simon of Los Angeles said. Further, when it comes to the coronavirus — which has been the subject of rampant misinformation, evolving medical advice and politicization — other dynamics may be at work. “Some men have a sense that they are not necessarily susceptible,” Mr. Simon said health care workers have told officials. “They have weathered this for more than a year and have a sense of omnipotence.” Public health and academic experts have been long concerned with the “macho” effect that prevents men from getting all sorts of health care, and fear that it might be exacerbated with this vaccine. (Notably, in the most male service branch of the military, the Marines, about 40 percent of those who were offered the vaccine by the Defense Department have turned it down.) “This avoidance has been linked to masculinity ideals of men being strong, invincible and not asking for help,” said Kristen W. Springer, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University in New Jersey who has done research on this trait. “In other words, these cultural ideals lead men to avoid important health care in order to act masculine,” she said. “Now that the vaccine is available to everyone, it will be interesting to watch male-female differences in vaccine uptake, because these will more likely reflect social and cultural ideas about gender and health, such as the cultural idea that ‘real men’ don’t need preventive health care.” At this stage, U.S. health authorities have not released data on nonbinary adults and vaccination. There may also be political connections. Women are far more likely than men to register as Democrats, and polls demonstrate that Republicans across the country have been far less likely than Democrats to embrace the vaccine. So who will men listen to? Not their wives and female friends or doctors, it seems. For their recent preprint study, Leah Witus and Erik Larson, professors at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn., watched videos with men and women that featured identical information about the vaccine. Among the 1,184 Americans who watched them, most were positively influenced by the male narrator while the female narrator got a far more mixed response. “The male-narrated version of the video increased vaccination intention in viewers,” said Ms. Witus, “but the female-narrated had mixed associations with vaccine propensity, and in some viewers, those that identified as conservative, actually decreased vaccination intention.” This may spell victory for Mr. Schillaci as he and his wife subtly joust for influence over their 20-year-old son’s vaccination decision. Mr. Schillaci has been sharing his views with his son, whom his wife is prodding to take a shot. “I would rather he got the shot, and I hope that he’ll consider it,” said Ms. Elgison. But Ms. Elgison’s own decision may benefit her son, even if he decides against the vaccine. As often happens in life, men may find their gaps covered by women. “To the extent most people live and socialize in a mixed-gender setting,” the men will benefit from the higher coverage among women,” Ms. Buttenheim said. Ms. Elgison, however, still has a trump card she hopes might work. “I would like my son to get it so we can all travel together,” she said. “I explained to him that it’s possible that we could protect his dad.” Source link Orbem News #Covid #men #Vaccines #Women

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United Airlines reveals coronavirus safety guide in effort to restore self-confidence after reaction over packed flight

Airline companies are attempting to fill a minimum of a few of the seats on the aircrafts they have in the sky.

Air travel in the U.S. has largely ground to a halt as individuals have grown careful about potentially exposing themselves to coronavirus. Numerous airlines have actually turned to flying mostly empty flights– although sometimes, travelers have grumbled about congested planes, as when it comes to a current United Airlines UAL,. 4.01% flight.

The airline company announced a series of changes on Wednesday to help bring back the general public’s self-confidence in flight, laying out how it will run at airports and on board aircrafts, consisting of a collaboration with Clorox Co. CLX,. 1.46% for enhanced cleansing and another with medical experts from the Cleveland Clinic, as it works to keep guests safe throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

“ United will introduce sneeze guards at check-in counters, touchless kiosks in select locations for luggage check-in, compulsory face coverings for team and clients, and will give travelers choices when flights are over 70%full. “

The business unveiled brand-new cleaning and security procedures that include sneeze guards at check-in counters, touchless kiosks in choose areas for baggage check-in, mandatory face coverings for crew and clients, brand-new economy treat bags that will come with a sanitizing clean, and providing individually covered hand sanitizer wipes to clients when they board. United will likewise restrict advance seat selections when possible, and offer passengers the choice to take alternative flights when flights are over 70%complete, the business said.

This is a noteworthy turn-around in policy for the airline, provided criticism fixed United in recent weeks. Previously this month, Ethan Weiss, a University of California, San Francisco, cardiologist, shared an image on Twitter TWTR,. 6.45% showing almost every seat full on the plane out of Newark Airport in New Jersey. He stated customers were “surprised” and “terrified.”

” I guess @united is unwinding their social distancing policy these days? Every seat complete on this 737,” Weiss composed. “They might have prevented this by just communicating better,” Weiss added. “They actually simply sent out an email 10 days ago talking people the middle seats would be empty.” He was taking a trip with 25 other nurses and doctors who have actually been volunteering in New York health centers.

At the time, United said it might no longer ensure all clients would be booked beside an empty seat. “Last month, we began limiting sophisticated seat selection for surrounding seats in all cabins, including middle seats where available and alternating window and aisle seats when seats are in sets,” the company said in a declaration to ABC7. DIS,. 2.34%

Airlines for America, an industry trade group, launched a summary in April of how U.S. airlines are improving cleansing and security procedures. Alaska Airlines. ALK,. 5.09% increased its cleansing procedures between flights and is now utilizing disinfectants that are effective against infections, it said. American Airlines aircraft are cleaned up at routine periods throughout the day with disinfectant.

Learn More: Airlines are releasing billions of dollars in vouchers– but can you still get a money refund for coronavirus-related flight cancellations?

Airlines are working to help contain and stop the spread of COVID-19, Airlines for America stated. “The security of travelers and staff members is the top concern of U.S. airline companies,” it included. “Because the beginning of the novel coronavirus pandemic, carriers have actually been working carefully with Congress, the Administration and federal firms consisting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

” There’s no doubt that these unprecedented times will lead to some significant modifications in the travel market,” said travel specialist Brian Kelly, also understood as The Points Person on his site

“ ‘ Till a vaccine is established, providers will need to make customers feel safe. Increased cleansing is a start, however we’re most likely to see needs for more protections, consisting of health screening.’. “

— Brian Kelly, AKA The Points Guy

” JetBlue was among the very first U.S. airlines to require that team members use masks and simply recently extended the exact same rule to guests,” Kelly composed on his site. “In addition, JetBlue has restricted the variety of seats readily available for purchase, allowing for more space in between clients. Team members will continue to examine seat tasks to abide by social-distancing guidelines.”

Jet Blue. JBLU,. 3.36% stated Wednesday it will continue to obstruct middle seats on Plane. AIR,. 1.51% airplanes in rows where individuals aren’t traveling together through July 4, and will block aisle seats on smaller Embraer. ERJ,. 2.88% “Even with blocked seats, it’s challenging to keep 6 feet of distance in between everybody onboard and that’s why JetBlue was the first U.S. airline to need face coverings for customers,” the airline stated Wednesday.

U.S. airline companies are considering taking comparable actions to Chinese airlines.

” United Arab Emirates-based Etihad has currently begun checking new innovation that would screen passengers for unsafe medical conditions like COVID-19 by monitoring their temperature levels, heart rates and breathing rates,” Kelly included. “However, many people with COVID-19 have actually been asymptomatic.”

” In the U.S., Frontier Airlines recently executed a program that requires travelers to accept a health recommendation prior to finishing check-in via site or app,” Kelly said. “This is the first we have actually heard of any U.S. airline company instituting its own health-screening check. This isn’t the most efficient screening, but it’s a start.”

See likewise: Frontier Airlines will drop social-distancing charge after wave of criticism

Providers’ stocks have actually had a rollercoaster trip in reaction to the across the country financial shutdown due to the coronavirus. Warren Buffett recently exposed that Berkshire. BRK.A,. 1.87% had actually sold all of its holdings in the airline sector, including stock in Delta. DAL,. 3.86%, American Airlines. AAL,. 2.19% and Southwest. LUV,. 4.15%

Boeing. BA,. 1.94% Chief Executive David Calhoun said a significant airline company will “more than likely” go under as a result of the coronavirus pandemic during a current appearance on NBC’s “Today” show He added that it might take 3 to 5 years for the industry to recover to the traveler levels seen prior to the pandemic. Airline companies, on the other hand, face an uphill struggle to encourage guests to fly.

” Security has always been our leading concern, and today in the midst of an unmatched crisis, it’s our particular customer focus,” Scott Kirby, United’s President, said in a video message to clients on Wednesday. “We recognize that COVID-19 has brought cleanliness and hygiene standards to the front of consumers’ minds when making travel choices.”

( Jacob Passy and Ciara Linnane contributed to this story.)

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'Is this America anymore?': Peeved Michiganders are slamming their governor after a statewide travel crackdown means they cannot go to their cottage up north

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced a defend-at-dwelling repeat on Thursday which manner residents won't be ready to mosey between residences.

It be a shock to many Michiganders, where owning a cottage in Northern Michigan is frequent even amongst heart-class residents.

Within the intervening time, Michigan has had the third-absolute best rates of the coronavirus nationwide, following Fresh York and Fresh Jersey.

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who's leading one in all the states hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, has prolonged the hiss's defend-at-dwelling repeat except May maybe well presumably well 1.

The repeat additionally included some measures not seen in diversified states, love how mountainous-box stores can't promote "nonessential" items equivalent to gardening gives or paint. Nevertheless the chunk of the defend-at-dwelling repeat that in actuality is never always basically sitting properly with some Michiganders is that mosey "between residences" will additionally be banned as of April 11.

As summertime nears in the most continuously freezing hiss in the Higher Midwest, residents who like cottages in Northern Michigan — called "Up North" by locals — most continuously secure a weekend in spring to reopen their cottage. (Assign for snowboarding fans, most cottage owners steer clear of Northern Michigan at some level of the wintry weather because or not it's exceptionally chilly.)

Others would possibly maybe maybe need been planning to trail to their second homes because the coronavirus slams great of Lower Michigan, specifically the Metro Detroit space.

Michigan has the No. 3 absolute best rate of confirmed cases for the coronavirus, following Fresh York and Fresh Jersey. The most most trendy hiss figures exhibit that close to 23,000 Michiganders have examined obvious for the coronavirus, and greater than 1,200 have died. The growth of confirmed cases has slowed in most trendy days, however some Michigan doctors insist the curve aloof hasn't flattened.

—Eric Lloyd (@EricLloyd) April 9, 2020

Proudly owning a cottage Up North, or at the least visiting one, is a timeworn tradition for a range of Michiganders. And unlike, insist, the swanky recognition areas love The Hamptons would possibly maybe maybe need, owning a second dwelling Up North is never always basically weird to Michigan's properly off. Many chunks of the scenic build have low property values, so even heart-class of us in the hiss, including automobile manufacturing facility workers, can build up for a cottage.

Following the suggestions of the mosey crackdown from Whitmer, many Michiganders took to Twitter to staunch their displeasure and confusion around the rules.

"This repeat is something I believed I'd supreme survey in a communist nation," Bob Knaack, who lives in Holland, Michigan, a city on the west aspect of the hiss, counseled Industry Insider. "Our governor undoubtedly would never be one herself to be on the aspect of someone who would dare insist, 'Give me liberty or give me loss of life.'"

Brad Planey, who lives attain the Thumb of Michigan and is a respiratory therapist, mentioned facets of the repeat irritated him, however famous that Whitmer is in a "no-determine bid." "Of us will be upset on all fronts regardless of what she orders," he counseled Industry Insider.

—Kurt Sturos (@ksturos) April 10, 2020

—Ryan Tobin (@IrishJerome) April 9, 2020

—Prick✋☝️🦶🏻 (@TDni19) April 9, 2020

This is never always basically the first time Michiganders have rallied in opposition to a flesh presser to defend their rights to Northern Michigan. In September, the hiss lit up after Vice President Mike Pence introduced a motorcade to Mackinac Island, a historically car-free zone.

"(That is) a real gem that has been assaulted in undeniable explore," Bitsy Jennings Govern, who grew up in Michigan and is now a Skaneateles, Fresh York, resident, counseled Industry Insider last year.

Since September, Michigan has been in the headlines again because the coronavirus slams the Mitten Mumble tougher than most others. The fight has been specifically not easy in Detroit, where high rates of poverty and preexisting prerequisites love diabetes have made the population specifically inclined.

On April 2, the head of Michigan's Department of Smartly being and Human Services and products mentioned violators of the defend-at-dwelling repeat will be fined up to $1,000 or be given a 90-day defend in penal advanced. The inter-role mosey ban used to be announced per week later.

—Michael (@Phil41300) April 10, 2020

'We would possibly maybe maybe not be out of the woods except we've a vaccine'

Whitmer used to be elected to the governor's role in 2018 in one in all the absolute best turnouts for a midterm election in Michigan, a most continuously left-leaning hiss. Some supporters of Whitmer reached out to the outlet to enhance her on Friday — love Lisa Jacobs, a resident of Metro Detroit who considers herself a "logical liberal."

"The large majority of folks balking at the repeat have tiny comprehension of what the quarantine and social distancing hope to enact," Jacobs counseled Industry Insider. "They like not comprehend it is less about stopping all americans from getting it and extra about not buckling the already fragile clinical infrastructure."

Barbara Miriani, who additionally lives in Metro Detroit, agreed. "She's looking out to retain it from spreading," she counseled Industry Insider. "Any other folks need to not taking a peek at the mountainous image."

Within the intervening time, Natalie Stackhouse, who lives year spherical in the typical resort city of Harbor Springs, Michigan, mentioned there are fewer clinical resources in Northern Michigan. If the coronavirus starts to slam up north, that would possibly maybe maybe locations residents in hazard.

"There would possibly maybe be a false impact that, because we've fewer other folks, or not it's replace as frequent," Stackhouse counseled Buisness Insider. "Adding a huge glut of oldsters will endanger all of us. We have smaller hospitals, and fewer resources. It is supreme staunch to secure a peek at and own the virus."

She added, "The 'communist' comments are selfish and immature."

Dr. Teena Chopra, who's a professor of infectious diseases at Detroit's Wayne Mumble College and leads infection administration for the Detroit Medical Center, counseled statewide outlet Bridge Journal there hasn't been a slowdown in patient intake. "We would possibly maybe maybe not be out of the woods except we've a vaccine," Chopra counseled Bridge.

Whitmer called the elevated restrictions "overall sense," in accordance with native outlet WDIV.

"Each exception you extinguish to the 'Shield dwelling, defend staunch' repeat makes this extra porous and makes it less more doubtless to work," Whitmer mentioned. "It manner extra other folks are going to assemble sick, extra other folks are going to die, and our financial system is going to suffer for longer."

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Coronavirus 2020 Outbreak: Latest Updates

News about the coronavirus outbreak that started in Wuhan, China, is changing rapidly. The respiratory infection, named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO), is closely related to SARS and MERS. The majority of cases are no longer in China, and the disease has been diagnosed in more than 100 other countries, including the United States. We'll provide the latest updates on cases, deaths, travel restrictions, and more here.

What is the latest news?

More States Tighten Restrictions as Coronavirus Rages New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, California, and Illinois have issued "shelter-in-place" orders that ask residents to stay home and request that non-essential businesses close. In New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy issued a "stay-at-home" order Saturday. “We know the virus spreads through person-to-person contact, and the best way to prevent further exposure is to limit our public interactions to only the most essential purposes. This is a time for us all to come together in one mission to ‘flatten the curve’ and slow – and eventually halt – the spread of coronavirus," Murphy said in a statement. In Connecticut, Gov. Ned Lamont asked that all non-essential businesses close starting Monday at 8 p.m. and he urged residents to stay home and work from home is possible. The order does not include services such as health care and law enforcement. Gov. J.B. Pritzker's order will require all Illinois residents to remain at home except to go to the grocery store, visit a health care professional, take walks and go to the drug store. Illinois has nearly 600 cases and five deaths. New York's order will go into effect Sunday night. In addition to banning non-essential services, it also bans any type of gathering for any reason, among other restrictions. New York has more than 8,500 cases and more than 50 deaths. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who issued a statewide stay at home order effective at midnight March 19, that will remain in place until further notice. Essential services such as groceries, banks, laundromats, car repair, and restaurant take-out will be open. Essential state and local government functions will continue. Residents are asked to stay home except to get food, care for a relative or friend, get necessary health care or get to an essential job. Newsom projected that up to 56% of California's residents, or about 25.5 million people, could be infected with COVID-19 in the next 8 weeks if strong measures are not taken. President Donald Trump says he doesn't see a need yet for a national "lockdown" to curb the spread of the new coronavirus and supports states making their own decisions. Read New Jersey’s order here.Read Connecticut’s order here.Read New York’s order here.Read Illinois’ order here.Read California’s order here. Pence Staff Member Tests Positive One of Vice President Mike Pence's staff members tested positive for COVID-19. Pence said he is doing well, and he did not have direct contact with the staff member. Even so, Pence and his wife will be tested Saturday afternoon. More Tests, Not Sure of Progress from “Social Distancing” Measures Yet In a White House briefing Saturday, President Trump and other officials said that testing for COVID-19 had expanded. At the same time, they said they did not know yet how much of an effect social distancing efforts are having on its spread. The nation is at the 6-day mark in the 15-day Stop the Spread effort, which asked people to not gather in groups of more than 10, avoid restaurants and bars and to and stay home when sick. Since the guidelines were issued, many states and cities have shut down bars and restaurants. "We know we are clearly having an effect but can't quantify it now,'' as that takes time to analyze said Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The administration has said it will reevaluate the measures after the 15 days are over. Pence said testing for the virus is “expanding rapidly.” More than 195,000 who have had symptoms have been tested, he said, and that number does not include county hospitals or health care labs." The country has more than 22,000 confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. On Saturday, the FDA issued the emergency use authorization for a COVID-19 test that can give results in 45 minutes. Cepheid, the test maker, expects to roll it out by March 30. It can be used on more than 23,000 Cepheid automated systems already in use worldwide, the company said. As for who needs a test, Pence said: "If you don't have symptoms don’t do a test. It is another way we can be sure we are preserving resources that our health care workers need." Pence said they were also working to address shortages of masks and other personal protective equipment for health care workers. Deaths Jump in Italy Italian officials reported 793 additional deaths on Saturday, the largest single-day increase so far in that country, the New York Times reported. More than half of its cases and death have come in the past week. Over the past few days, Italy moved ahead of China as the country with the most deaths. The country has more than 53,000 cases and more than 4,800 deaths. The nation is under lock-down, which the army is helping to enforce.

How many people have been diagnosed with the virus, and how many have died?

According to Johns Hopkins University, there are more than 287,000 cases and nearly 12,000 deaths worldwide. For the first time since the new coronavirus outbreak began in December, China -- once the epicenter of what would become a global pandemic -- reported no new domestic cases Thursday. The National Health Commission, however, reported 34 new cases, all of which were imported from outside China. It's been 81 days since the first case was announced in Wuhan, China. There have been more than 81,000 cases in China and more than 3,200 deaths there Italy now has more deaths from the new coronavirus than any other country. Italy, China, and Iran are the countries with the most deaths. A new study from the Italian national health authority reports that more than 99% of those who have died from the coronavirus there had other medical problems. However, the study only looked at the backgrounds of 18% of the nearly 3,000 people who have died, which means of the estimated 536 cases investigated, 531 had a pre-existing condition.

How many cases of COVID-19 are in the United States?

There are nearly 20,000 cases in the U.S. of COVID-19 and more than 160 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. See a map of cases and deaths by state here. Washington, New York, and California are the states with the most deaths in the U.S.

What travel restrictions are there?

The State Department has urged all U.S. citizens to avoid any international travel due to the global impact of the new coronavirus. If you are currently overseas, the department wants you to come home, “unless are prepared to remain abroad for an indefinite period,” according to a statement. “Many countries are experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks and implementing travel restrictions and mandatory quarantines, closing borders and prohibiting non-citizens from the entry with little advance notice,” the agency says. In addition, the State Department says it will not issue any new passports except for people with a “qualified life-or-death emergency and who need a passport for immediate international travel within 72 hours.” The U.S. is banning all foreign travel to the United States from most of Europe for the next 30 days beginning midnight Friday, March 13. American citizens are not included in the ban. On Saturday, Trump said he would extend the ban to include the UK and Ireland. The U.S. has also temporarily suspended non-essential travel to Mexico and Canada.

What are officials doing to help contain the virus?

Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services, says there's been tremendous progress on testing for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. He says tens of thousands of tests are being done every day. But Anthony Fauci, MD, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says while testing is improving, the reality is that some people can't get tests even though they have symptoms. He says he understands and sympathizes with people who would like to get the test and can't. "We're not there yet," he says. The U.S. is also working to fast-track possible anti-viral medications to treat COVID-19. President Donald Trump said the U.S. is looking at the possible use of anti-malarial drugs called chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus. The drugs are also used now to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Stephen Hahn, MD, the FDA commissioner, says potential COVID-19 treatments will be checked in large clinical trials. Hahn says the FDA will also look into making some potential medications available through "compassionate use" rules, which let some sick people use drugs outside a clinical trial. Fauci was cautious about the possible use of anti-malaria drugs like hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. The president said he felt positive about their usefulness, but Fauci says testing is needed. "We need to get data to see if it works and it's safe for people with COVID-19," he says. He says serious harmful effects from the drugs are rare when taken for malaria, but we can't be sure how people will react when they're used for another disease, like COVID-19. Hahn says vaccine trials are underway, but it could be at least 12 months until one is ready for the public. He also says the FDA is looking into the possibility of collecting blood samples from people who have recovered from COVID-19 to see if properties in them can provide immunity benefits to others. Pence also says the U.S. is also working with industry to increase the number of N-95 respirators that can be used by health workers. He says millions of these masks could now become available. click here to read more on crohnsdigest click here to read and buy Echinacea for cold and flu Read the full article

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Top Six Diseases Should Worry You More Than Ebola

Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian subject visiting the U.S., died this morning. He was the primary then way solely patient to be diagnosed; with hemorrhagic fever within the U.S. It’s vital to not trivialize his death, however, it’s conjointly vital to place it in perspective. In Africa, the virus has claimed the lives of a minimum of four,033 individuals and; sickened quite eight,300 others, in line with the planet Health Organization. But that one case has captured the news, inspiring headlines like: - “The ISIS of Biological Agents” and “U.S. has left itself hospitable ebola fever natural event.” Meanwhile, in our country, the picornavirus sixty-eight has infected a minimum of 628 individuals since August. Most of them were young children. RELATED : Cheap branded PRODUCTS for Beauty and makeups “When individuals are anxious a few threat like hemorrhagic fever, it doesn’t essentially matter if they appear at numbers, facts and chances,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC’s National Center for protection and metabolism Diseases. “Because of the means our brains work, one thing rare and exotic is far scarier than something that’s acquainted.” As anxiety regarding hemorrhagic fever mounts, we have a tendency to asked the consultants that U.S. diseases we must always be distressed regarding or a minimum of a lot of distressed regarding than hemorrhagic fever. Here are six, in no specific order. ENTEROVIRUS D-68 Last month a 4-year-old boy in New Jersey visited sleep and ne'er woke. This week, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed; that the boy was infected with the picornavirus sixty-eight, or EV-D68. That very same week a 10-year-old woman United Nations agency; conjointly tested positive for the virus died twenty-four hours when being admitted to a hospital in Rhode Island. Enterovirus sixty-eight fits into a category of viruses that features hand-foot-and-mouth illness and infantile paralysis. Every year, ten to fifteen million individuals devour AN picornavirus, Schuchat same, however, picornavirus sixty-eight is a wholly new natural event. While picornavirus sixty-eight was 1st discovered in 1962. This is often its 1st natural event. Dr. Madonna Anne Jackson is the director of infectious diseases at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas town, Missouri. The primary cases of picornavirus sixty-eight. Kids with asthma-like symptoms were admitted to her hospital in early August. By month’s finish, the hospital was admitting to thirty to thirty-five cases on a daily basis. Understand Virus Just as doctors are learning the way to diagnose the virus, it's evolving. In Colorado, ten patients developed polio-like symptoms, with limb dysfunction and problem respiratory. Four of these patients tested positive for picornavirus sixty-eight. Similar cases are rumored across the country; from Bean Town to port of entry. It’s still unclear whether; or not limb dysfunction is joined to picornavirus sixty-eight. However, researchers are finding out the chance of an association. “It spreads similar to the respiratory disorder, however, we have a tendency to don’t knowledge several can get chilly and the way many will want hospitalization and how many will find yourself with a polio-like health problem,” Jackson same. “In terms of what’s at our feet straight away, EV-D68 has become the foremost vital virus.” How to defend yourself: Wash hands typically with soap and water for quite twenty seconds before touching eyes, nose or mouth. Avoid shut contact with people that are sick. cowl your coughs and sneezes with one thing that’s not your hands. clean surfaces, like toys and doorknobs. keep home if you’re sick. MEASLES This kid displays a typical contagion rash, four days into the health problem. Before widespread vaccination, ninetieth of youngsters; and babies contracted the contagion. The amount born to fewer than 2000 cases a year; and was nearly eradicated within the U.S.; till folks stopped inoculating their kids. Rice Measles, a pestilence that causes an infection of the systema respiratorium. That was nearly eradicated within the US when a vaccinum; became widespread in the early Nineteen Sixties. Within the years since, the virus became thus rare here. That its symptoms irritability, high fever, and a rash. That were largely forgotten, as was the speed of infection. Before routine vaccinations, every case of contagion created seventeen new secondary cases. The big apple Times recently rumored. But in 2008, because of a mixture of international travel and susceptible populations — most from folks opting out of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccinum for his or her kids — the virus resurfaced within the U.S. Babies of susceptible mothers are at the best risk. they're too young for the vaccinum and lack immunity from their mothers. thus far in 2014, there are quite 600 contagion cases, nearly all of the kids. “That’s astounding for 2014 to suppose that there are that several cases for an illness that ought to have gone away within the U.S.,” Jackson same. Measles isn't fatal One person in each one,000 cases dies from it — however, it needs a good deal of hospital resources to treat. several kids with the contagion can want element or ventilators and are at a larger risk of developing the respiratory disorder and different microorganism infections. contagion also can cause hearing impairment and permanent brain injury. In rare cases, kids with the contagion proceed to develop acute sclerosing phrenitis. subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis may be a rare nervous disorder that develops years when a contagion infection. It starts as wakefulness and forgetfulness, however, it devolves into hallucinations and seizures. Most subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis patients die at intervals one to a few years of designation. How to defend yourself: For best protection, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends inoculating your kids twice: once after they are 12-15 months previous, and once more after they are 4-6 years previous. WHOOPING COUGH This is the microorganism that causes infectious disease; or respiratory disorder. This vaccinum for illness loses effectualness; when five years. Lost booster shots mean that the illness is discovery a lot of types within the U.S. Cases of infectious disease, or respiratory disorder, have up sharply since 2004. In 2012, 48,277 cases were rumored within the U.S. That’s the most important range since 1955. infectious disease is caused by a microorganism and starts with cold-like symptoms. The dry, hacking cough will last for up to ten weeks. Some patients flip blue pursy for air. “In my thirty years of applying, few weeks has gone that I haven’t diagnosed a case ,” Jackson same. Children between seven and ten years previous are hardest hit. She said, and it’s particularly dangerous for infants. However, deaths within the U.S. from infectious disease are rare. There have been twenty deaths among the 48,277 cases in 2012, as an example. “Deaths are now — twenty to thirty a year,” Jackson same. “Those are twenty to thirty deaths that we have a tendency to shouldn’t have.” There is a vaccinum for infectious disease; However, it’s not as effective because it once was, Jackson same. Within the Nineteen Fifties. The U.S. relied on a whole-cell infectious disease vaccinum. One that used full strains of the microorganism. However, the whole-cell vaccines had facet effects; from swelling at the injection web site to fever. within the Nineteen Nineties; industrialized nations shifted to mistreatment an single-celled vaccinum containing solely components of the microorganism. However, when 5 years, immunity from the single-celled vaccinum wanes. Then around 2004, the microorganism mutated, and cases took off within the U.S. NewsHour’s Betty Ann Bowser rumored on the outbreaks in 2012: How to defend yourself: Regular booster shots facilitate, Schuchat same, particularly for pregnant ladies United Nations agency wish to shield their newborns. Mothers will pass immunity on to their babies, that helps them through their 1st months. In fact, a respiratory disorder dose within the trimester protects ninety p.c of babies in their 1st year of life, in line with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. DRUG-RESISTANT microorganism Methicillin-resistant cocci aureus (MRSA) has unfolded on the far side hospitals. The deadly, antibiotic-resistant microorganism is found on each 2 out of a hundred individuals within the U.S. More than two million individuals within the U.S. annually develop AN infection from an antibiotic-resistant microorganism. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates a minimum of twenty-three,000 individuals die from those infections annually. With AN overuse of antibiotics, many sorts of microorganism became proof against the medicine that when eliminated them. Infections and diseases that were once cured by one medication currently need stronger antibiotics to treat. Doctors have seen rises in antibiotic-resistant T.B., staphylococci infections, social disease, and respiratory disorder, to call many. It means that long, painful and pricy hospitalizations whereas doctors realize the way to kill the superbugs. once a second- and third-tier antibiotics can’t cure the infection, the expedient is removing infected tissue. Infection Reach Methicillin-resistant cocci aureus, or MRSA, is one among the foremost virulent. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are eighty,000 MRSA cases once a year, and 11,000 individuals die from the infection annually. MRSA is unfolded through skin-to-skin contact and speak to with infected materials, like surgical tools or respiratory tubes. It’s a plague in hospitals, and it's spreading on the far side clinics. But there has been a decline in MRSA deaths. In 2011, there have been nine,000 fewer MRSA deaths than in 2005, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates, due to higher hospital practices to forestall the unfold of the microorganism. however, 2 in each a hundred individuals carry MRSA. How to defend yourself: defend yourself with handwashing, correct sanitation and applicable use of antibiotics, Schuchat same. RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS Chest x-ray of a 16-day previous baby with a respiratory organ injury because of metabolism syncytial virus. virtually every kid contracts the illness by age two. By age 2, virtually every kid within the U.S. has had metabolism syncytial virus or RSV, Jackson same. It’s a respiratory organ infection, inflicting babies to cough, wheeze and have a fever. RSV is transmitted sort of a respiratory disorder via droplets from sneezes and coughs. just like the contagious disease, it seems each winter like mechanism, Jackson same. For most babies, RSV isn’t serious, but 125,000 babies once a year are hospitalized for the virus. Premature babies or kids with heart or metabolism issues will develop a lot of severe symptoms and need ventilators or element to breathe. Overall, the death rate from RSV is low considering however high the infection rate is — or so 250 deaths a year, Jackson same. So why is RSV an enormous problem? not like a contagious disease, there’s no vaccinum or antiviral to treat it. The virus stays on surfaces for as long as eight hours, spreading quickly through daycares and households. For the old and older smokers, RSV will cause respiratory disorder, which might be deadly. “The overwhelming majority of babies do fine, however, it's an awfully high burden of illness,” Jackson same. How to defend yourself: Wash your hands ofttimes. clean surfaces. bad kids mustn't act with individuals with cold-like symptoms. From the CDC: A drug referred to as palivizumab (say “pah-lih-VIH-zu-mahb”) is on the market to forestall; severe RSV health problem inbound infants and kids United Nations agency are at high risk. The drug will facilitate stop development of great RSV illness. However, it cannot facilitate cure or treat kids already littered with serious RSV illness; and it cannot stop infection with RSV. INFLUENZA AND respiratory disorder In Gregorian calendar month 2013; the big apple town declared a public health emergency as contagious disease swept the state. with nearly 20,000 individuals infected. Influenza and respiratory disorder go hand-in-hand; and are a lot of probably to kill you; than any communicable disease. Contagious disease ranks range seven on the CDC’s list of ten high killers. Quite 53,000 individuals died from contagious disease. Respiratory disorder in 2010 in line with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention; and that’s simply within the US. “The respiratory disorder is miserable, however, this is often on the far side miserable. It’s a high fever, severe muscle aches…people keep in mind the minute it hits them,” Jackson same. “It runs its course over seven days, And an antiviral will ratchet it down, however (the flu) continues to be an awfully severe health problem with the whole list of complications” — starting from ear infections to a respiratory disorder. Respiratory disorder Lead Risk And whereas the contagious disease virus itself is deadly. A lot of deadly is that the respiratory disorder. That typically follows, she said. Most healthy individuals, regarding tierce of the population, carry the microorganism. This causes respiratory disorder in their noses. However, once an infection just like the contagious disease takes over the body. The microorganism migrates into the blood and finishes up within the lungs. Millions are hospitalized for the health problem. Schuchat says, but babies, young kids and also the old are at the best risk. That’s why the Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends; that everybody over six months previous gets the annual contagious disease vaccinum. “Last year, quite a hundred youngsters died from the contagious disease within the U.S. And that’s one thing that we have a tendency to do have vaccines for,” Schuchat same. “It could seem acquainted, however even healthy kids get the contagious disease and might die from it.” Ebola Ebola needs contact with bodily fluids like vomit, blood, spit; or weewee to transfer from person to person. However, the contagious disease is well mobile on droplets projected from coughs and sneezes. That fly through colleges, offices, and households. The tragedy is that several of those contagious disease deaths; might are prevented with the annual flu vaccinum, Jackson same. “We have a vaccinum And an antiviral medication for contagious disease, and it still causes deaths,” she said. “We have Americans petrified of hemorrhagic fever. However, fewer than fifty percent of USA citizens make the most of the contagious disease vaccinum. It’s one thing that’s progressing to be here. It’s returning.” How to defend yourself: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that caregivers and infants six months and older get a contagious disease vaccinum. Also, cowl your coughs and sneezes and wash hands ofttimes. If you’re sick, keep home from work or faculty Read the full article

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Hi! I strive to be a veterinary technician but where I live there are no schools or programs at the moment and have no money to travel in regards to school. I am going to graduate soon and have already applied to a local college in hopes to pursue a bachelor's degree in bio. I am wondering if this seems like the right choice? Some of my friends have told me it is not required to go to college to become a vet tech but my mom is making me. Thank you in advance!

Hi!

Phew, this is a loaded question.

Let’s start by saying: this varies A LOT by location. It is definitely not straightforward, and every veterinary assistant/technician you ask will have a wildly different answer.

Every US state (I’m sure it varies even more wildly by COUNTRY) has different laws in regards to what people with different levels of certification can do.

I currently work as a veterinary assistant who has been trained on the job. I don’t have any official certification - I was just taught by other assistants, technicians, and doctors over a few years.

In addition, I have my bachelor’s degree in Animal Science, and am planning to go on to veterinary school in the fall.

That being said, I don’t have a lot of experience with veterinary technician schooling, exams, or licensure. Any of my followers with more experience, please feel free to add on or correct me!

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According to NAVTA (The National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America) and the AVMA (The American Veterinary Medical Association), the correct term is “Veterinary Technician” in the US (as opposed to terms like “Veterinary nurse” used in other countries) - another source of debate and varied opinions!

There are people with zero official certification, people who are LICENSED veterinary technicians (LVTs), people who are CERTIFIED veterinary technicians (CVTs), and people who are REGISTERED veterinary technicians (RVTs). Again, the difference varies by state.

After completing a Veterinary Technician program (~2 years) and receiving your degree, most jobs require you to take the VTNE (Veterinary Technician National Examination) - the nationwide exam. Once passing this, depending on the state, you may have to pay a fee (no exam required - just proof of your degree and your passing exam grade). Paying the fee will make you “licensed”. I believe this needs to be repaid every 2-3 years to maintain your licensure.

In addition, there may be a mandatory amount of C.E. (Continuing Education) credits you must obtained every year to maintain your licensure.

I’m not sure if this is still in effect - but in some states, you are able to take the VTNE exam WITHOUT attending veterinary technician school. (In other states, you need to show proof of your degree in order to even take the exam). Passing the VTNE will then enable you to pay for your license.

Now, once a veterinary technician or technologist, you can also move forward by becoming a veterinary technician SPECIALIST (they usually work under a veterinary doctor who chose to specialize in a certain field and become a board certified specialist).

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Let’s do a brief overview of the medical staff in a veterinary hospital.

Quotes below are according to the NAVTA website: VETERINARIAN: “The veterinarian is solely responsible for diagnosing, prognosing, prescribing medication and performing surgery. They are ultimately responsible for all patient care and outcomes. Most veterinarians apply for veterinary medical school admission while obtaining a bachelor degree in a compatible field. If accepted into a medical school, the course of study usually takes another four years, making that a grand total of eight years of schooling. Every state requires a veterinarian to take and pass a licensing exam. Successful candidates are given a license to practice veterinary medicine.”

BOTH VETERINARY TECHNICIANS AND VETERINARY TECHNOLOGISTS:“The veterinary Technicians and technologists are educated to be the veterinarian’s nurse, laboratory technician, radiography technician, anesthetist, surgical nurse and client educator. Many veterinary technicians and technologists are placed in a supervisory role in veterinary practices, research institutions and other employment options. Veterinary technicians can find employment in veterinary practices, biomedical research, zoo/wildlife medicine, industry, military, livestock health management, pharmaceutical sales, etc. Almost every state requires a veterinary technician/technologist to take and pass a credentialing exam. Passing this exam ensures the public that the veterinary technician has entry-level knowledge of the duties they are asked to perform in the veterinary clinic or hospital.”

That’s important to keep in mind. You don’t have to be working in a general practice small animal hospital giving vaccines to cats and dogs. You have the option to work with small animals (cats/dogs), large animals (horses/cows/sheep), exotics (birds/reptiles/rodents), zoo animals, wildlife animals. You can work in a hospital, or you can work in a research lab. You can work in industrial jobs or government/military jobs. There’s a huge variety of options.

VETERINARY TECHNICIAN: “A veterinary technician is a graduate from a two-year, American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) accredited program from a community college, college or university.”

VETERINARY TECHNOLOGIST: “A veterinary technologist has graduated from an AVMA accredited bachelor degree program.”

VTS: “A veterinary technician or technologist specialist has met the same requirements as above plus spends about 75% of their time doing a specific task and has passed a specialist certification exam administered by a Specialist Academy. Currently, there are eleven academies offering specialty certification.”

Keep in mind this is a huge amount of work. It requires a lot of experience, hard work, and studying to become a VTS.

Giving you even more variety, the VTS specializing options are:Laboratory AnimalAnesthesia and Analgesia Behavior Clinical PathologyClinical Practice - Canine/FelineClinical Practice - Avian/ExoticClinical Practice - Production Animal DentalDermatology Emergency and Critical CareEquineInternal Medicine - Small AnimalInternal Medicine - Large AnimalInternal Medicine - CardiologyInternal Medicine - OncologyInternal Medicine - Neurology NutritionOphthalmology SurgeryZoological Medicine

VETERINARY ASSISTANT: “The veterinary assistant may have training through a high school, college certificate program or through a distant learning program over the Internet. Most, however, are trained on the job by the veterinarian or the veterinary technician. Their role is to assist the veterinarian or the veterinary technician in their daily tasks as well as some basic duties such as setting up of equipment and cleaning of key areas in the clinic like the surgery suite. Some may be asked to do kennel cleaning and janitorial work as well. NAVTA has recently created a Approved Veterinary Assistant program.”

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In an attempt to clear up some of the CVT/LVT/RVT confusion, also from the NAVTA website:

CREDENTIALED: “The current terminology recognized by decree of both NAVTA and the AVMA is “Veterinary Technician”. Whether you are an LVT, RVT or CVT the term used is mandated by the technician’s state of residence. Here are some definitions to help understand why all three terms are in use.”

CERTIFIED: “Is the recognition by the private sector of voluntarily achieved standards. Certification is usually bestowed by a private sector, nonprofit, professional association or independent board upon those members who achieve specified standards. Certification is therefore distinguished from licensure because it is generally non-governmental and voluntary. Confusion can result when the title “certified” is used for a licensed profession, such as Certified Public Accountant. Many CVTs in the U.S. are recognized by government agencies, such as boards of veterinary medical examiners, which also adds to the confusion. States that currently certify veterinary technicians include Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming.”

REGISTERED: “Refers to the keeping of lists of practitioners by a governmental agency. It can be equivalent to licensure but may also be distinguished from licensure in that criteria for registration may not exist, and registration may not be required for practice. States that currently register veterinary technicians include California, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and West Virginia.

LICENSED: “Is understood as the permission to do something as given by an authority, with the implication that one would not be permitted to do this thing without permission. To be licensed is more than a statement of qualification, as certification is. It is a statement of qualification, and it is the right to do a thing otherwise not permitted by a given authority. Both certification and licensure, however, carry the connotation of trust, belief and confidence; for without these attributes, the certification or the license would have little worth. States that license veterinary technicians include Alaska, Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.”

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It’s actually very difficult to find Licensed Veterinary technicians, so a lot of practices use on-the-job training, and teach people (over the course of years) the different skills a veterinary technician needs. Again, the legality of this varies by state, but it is done VERY often.

Legally, if licensure is required in these states, these employees are “assistants” and have a limit to what they should be doing. Some LVTs are insulted by these employees being called “technicians”, as the LVTs worked hard through their schooling and exams to earn that title. On the other side of the spectrum, some un-credentialed employees working as technicians will tell you that licensing means nothing - and that some of the most skilled technicians never went to school.

I am not going to TOUCH this very controversial area - as I have seen both perspectives.

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Okay, anon. More from NAVTA:“Where are the programs for veterinary technicians/technologists?There are over 230 AVMA accredited Veterinary Technology Programs located around the United States. You can earn either an Associate Degree, which takes 2 years or a Bachelor’s Degree, which takes 4 years at the various community colleges, colleges and universities offering a veterinary technology program. There are a number of distance learning veterinary technology programs that are also AVMA accredited and can be accessed through the web. The cost varies from school to school. You should contact the school of your choice and they will be able to give you information regarding tuition, as well as financial aid.Where are the programs for veterinary assistants?Individuals interested in attending a NAVTA Approved Veterinary Assistant Program may review the current list of approved schools on NAVTAs AVA webpage. NAVTA currently approves 35 programs throughout the US and Canada with three online programs approved.”

Personally - I don’t see the point in a veterinary assistant program since most are inexperienced people who learn everything on the job. The veterinary assistant programs are very new.

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NAVTA on not going to school:“In most states you can’t become credentialed without graduating from an accredited veterinary technology program. Very few states currently have an “alternate route” that allows people to sit for the exam, however there are a number of prerequisites that must be met before taking the exam. In 2000 there was a ruling by the Association of American Veterinary State Boards that within ten years they will no longer allow the National Veterinary Technician Exam to be used under these circumstances. If you are in a position to attend a veterinary technology program in your state it is well worth the effort. The amount of knowledge behind the skills you already know will astound you. If you cannot physically get to a program, there are five Distance Learning Programs that are currently accredited by the AVMA that can be taken via the Internet.”

Again, I have to recommend going to an actual school if at all possible. In my experience, online classes don’t give you the hands-on experience you need in this particular field. Being in a classroom and having labs will help immensely. (In addition to getting LOTS of experience in a hospital!)

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In regards to not having money for school - most people don’t! What kind of graduating high schooler has $50k/year for college?

Are you SURE there’s no programs around you? Check out NAVTA’s website and see if you’re missing any. If not, you unfortunately may have to travel.

You can save money by commuting and driving to class every day, but if that’s not an option, you may just have to use a loan for dorming/renting an apartment for the 2-4 years you’re away at school. You will NOT be alone in doing that.

If your mom wants you to get your bachelor’s so badly - is she willing to help you at all with college costs? If she can’t/won’t, look into (both private and government) student loans. Most people get through college on student loans, and once you have a steady salary, you can worry about paying them back.

If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll even get some financial aid that you don’t have to pay back! In addition, you can try applying for scholarships.

When you get a job, sometimes there is loan forgiveness. Not sure how this applies to veterinary technicians specifically, but if you work for a government job (public health, food animal production, military, etc.) or even a big corporation, sometimes they will offer to pay back your school loans if you commit to working for them for a certain amount of time.

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You can definitely get your associates or bachelor’s degree while deciding what you want to do. If possible, I would aim for a program that has an Animal Science degree. You will have access to a lot more relevant classes and hands-on experience. For example, I was able to take classes like Comparative Mammalian Anatomy, Animal Nutrition, Animal Reproduction, Companion Animal Science, etc. in addition to working with laboratory animals and farm animals over 4 years. That will probably be harder to find with a program for a degree in biology. Biology will be focusing a lot on humans, in addition to plants and the environment.

However, if you definitely want to become a veterinary technician, I would just go straight to veterinary technician school.

If you (or your mom) want you to have your bachelor’s degree - it sounds like a 4-year veterinary technologist program (as opposed to a 2-year veterinary technician program) would work for both purposes. You would have your bachelor’s degree, and you would have finished a program allowing you to take the VTNE exam.

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Some Links:NAVTA (technicians/assistants)AVMA (veterinary)

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Good luck!

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Edward Marshall Boehm & The Boehm Collection at RAM

By: Casey Seamans, Gallery Manager

Edward Marshall Boehm (1913 – 1969) was an American figurative expressionist sculptor, known for his porcelain figures of birds and other wildlife. Boehm Studios (pronounced “Beam”) was founded by Edward and his wife, Helen in Trenton, NJ in 1950 and within one short year, Boehm porcelain pieces had started making their way into the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the early days of the factory, dishes were also made, but the elaborate and lifelike bird figurines are what Boehm was best known for. Boehm kept a large collection of exotic birds in extensive aviaries and tropical houses at his home in Trenton. These birds became the subjects and inspirations for his sculptures.

In the 1950s his Late Holiness Pope John XXIII was presented with several pieces of Boehm porcelain for the Vatican Museum and President and Mrs. Eisenhower began to utilize Boehm porcelain for gifts to visiting Heads of State. In fact, every American President since, has commissioned Boehm for gifts for visiting dignitaries.

In the 1960s Edward Marshall Boehm passed away. His wife, Helen, took over the company and soon became known as “the Princess of Porcelain.” Helen successfully opened Boehm of Malvern England Limited. In 1992, Boehm was awarded its highest honor when a wing of the Vatican Museum in Rome was named in his memory. This was the first time in its 500-year history that one of the 13 museums in the Vatican was named for an American citizen, as the 12 other museums are named for popes and royal families.

In 2009 Boehm Studios in New Jersey began experiencing financial distress and was sold to Sharon Lee Parker. Helen Boehm died just one year later in 2010. By 2014 all production at the Boehm Studios in New Jersey had stopped. In 2015, the Museum of American Porcelain Art in Cleveland, OH purchased the assets of the Boehm Porcelain Company, including the original molds and various trademarks. Over the next several years, the museum’s focus will be moving the pieces and molds from the Trenton, NJ location to the Museum of American Porcelain Art, which is expected to open this year. The Boehm Showroom is still open daily at the original address on Princess Diana Lane in Trenton, NJ.

The Boehm Collection at RAM

The collection of Boehm porcelain that is now a major part of the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum’s Permanent Collection began as the personal collection of Dr. and Mrs. William E. Knight of Fort Smith. In 1975, they donated 11 pieces to the Art Center and continued to add pieces (77 pieces in total) until they retired to Blaine, WA in the 1990s. Dr. Knight (1909 – 2003) was an orthopedic doctor, world traveler and photographer. Dr. Knight was the founder of the International Orthopedic Letters Club, which in 1960 took him to Amman, Jerusalem and Bethlehem, where he volunteered as an orthopedic surgeon for eight weeks. In 1960 and 1961, members of this club volunteered to serve for rotating six-week terms in the country of Jordan, and through their efforts, every child in Jordan under the age of 5 was vaccinated for polio. Dr. Knight worked at Holt-Krock Clinic, Sparks, Mercy and Crawford County Memorial. His civic involvement in the Fort Smith community was extensive, as was his tendency for volunteer and philanthropic giving.

The Art Center collection was further enhanced by the donations of Perry’s Jewelry of Fayetteville, numerous local donors and supporters, and even Mrs. Helen Boehm herself, bringing the museums porcelain collection to over 130 pieces.

RAM moved to its new location on Rogers Avenue in 2013, but the porcelain collection had to remain at the old Art Center, until a gallery could be funded and built to adequately accommodate all of the porcelain pieces. Now, the Dr. W. E. Knight Porcelain Gallery is almost complete. Once the gallery is open, it will be the largest collection of Boehm porcelain on exhibit in the state of Arkansas. The beautiful art pieces that Edward Marshall Boehm painstakingly made, and that Dr. and Mrs. Knight so lovingly donated, will bring visitors to our area from all over the country.

While the majority of RAMs Porcelain collection is Boehm, you will also see porcelain art by Cybis, Royal Doulton, Napcoware-Hummel and Ispanky.

Images compliments of Bellingrath Gardens

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