Therese Metherellâs diet changed over the past year in a way thatâs true for most people.
Sheâs eating out less and replacing those calories with more home-cooked meals. Thatâs easy on the pocketbook, but itâs generally a boon for her health, too. Metherell, a dietitian, knows all about it.
âI worked in restaurants for 15 years,â she said. âYou can eat the same fish, brown rice and veggies at dinner out, and itâs going to have much more hidden fats and saturated fats. Itâs way better to cook at home. You know what the ingredients are. You know where itâs been sourced from a lot of the time.â
St. Johnâs Living Center officials insist that the facilityâs residents are safe and in good hands after five residents who were among nine who tested positive for COVID-19 in the fall tested positive again.
Marsha Sensat, the chief nursing officer for St. Johnâs Health and executive administrator of the Living Center, confirmed Thursday that five of the residents who tested positive in September and October again tested positive between Jan. 2 and as recently as Monday.
Two of those positive cases have cleared their quarantine period, while two more were expected to finish their quarantines Friday. The fifth case is in the midst of a quarantine of at least 10 days, she said.
Town, county and health officials are once again aligned in recommending that people only gather with members of their own households, this time to combat a surge in COVID-19 cases and the detection of a fast-spreading variant.
âIt is now more important than ever for members of our community, living and working in Teton County, to be vigilant,â the Teton County Board of County Commissioners wrote in an open letter stressing âpersonal responsibility.â
âWe must recognize the influence that individual actions have on our community. We are still all in this together, and we must all do our part,â the letter reads.