It all started with a donut.
On March 22, right after the first day of spring, Krispy Kreme offered a free glazed donut to customers who showed their COVID-19 vaccination card. Since then, the chain has given away more than 1.5 million donuts. On Friday, National Donut Day, all customers can get a free donut. If you’re vaccinated, you can have two.
As the first day of summer approaches, vaccination incentives have become a growth industry. They include everything from million-dollar state lottery giveaways to full-ride, four-year scholarships at public universities, from hunting and fishing licenses and state park passes to sweepstakes offering Super Bowl tickets, tropical cruises, a year of free groceries or airplane tickets for two to anywhere you can go in the friendly skies. The latest: a grand prize of $5 million in New Mexico’s Vax 2 to the Max sweepstakes. As James M. Berklan notes in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, you can cue the calliope music.
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Gonzalo Magaña, Executive Producer of ABC10 Originals team, said what began as an initial pitch about fiduciaries turned into an in-depth look at conservatorships in California the immense power and control conservators and fiduciaries have over other people’s lives and their money with little oversight and accountability from state regulators resulting in abuse of our most vulnerable population, the elderly.
“It’s a really complex system,” is a common sentiment many have shared with Judson throughout the course of the series. I believe just because something’s complex doesn’t mean that we aren’t entitled to understand it, Judson said. In fact, isn’t that more reason to be shining a light on it for our community?
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“COVID’s US toll expected to drop sharply by end of July” was the headline following a CDC “weather” report on the future course of the pandemic. That is entirely plausible and possible, but read the full story and we discover that shifting patterns could make the difference between sunny skies or storm clouds ahead.
Teams of researchers used statistical modeling to create and analyze four COVID-19 scenarios from April through September:
· High vaccination rate with moderate use of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as masking and distancing
· High vaccine uptake with low use of NPIs
· Low vaccine uptake with moderate use of NPIs