Keeping communities safe during the global pandemic and building a position from which to mount a strong recovery are the focus for the Cabinet’s budget proposals for the next financial year. say Calderdale leaders.
.Margaret Whitty, a long-term resident at Stella Maris in Timonium, Md., receives a COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 23, 2020. (CNS photo/Jennifer McMenamin, courtesy Stella Maris via Catholic Review) .Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago receives the COVID-19 vaccine at St. Anthony Hospital Dec. 23, 2020. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic) .Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago blesses employees at St. Anthony Hospital who distribute the COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 23, 2020. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic) .El cardenal Blase J. Cupich de Chicago se vacunó contra el COVID-19 en el hospital St. Anthony Hospital el 23 de diciembre 2020. (Foto CNS /Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic)
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Stella Maris is one of the first Maryland nursing homes to receive COVID-19 vaccine
December 23, 2020
Stella Maris – Maryland’s largest long-term care facility – has become one of the first nursing homes in the state to receive doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for residents and staff.
Representatives from Walgreens pharmacy arrived on the sprawling Timonium campus Dec. 23 to distribute more than 400 doses of the Pfzier vaccine, which must be kept at extremely cold temperatures to remain effective.
“Well, I think it’s really just the first step in getting through this horrible trauma that we have all been a part of. And it’s not going to fix everything immediately, but it’s definitely going to be part of the solution,” said Regina Figueroa, chief administrative officer for Stella Maris, which is sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy.
Jim Harris, photographer and Roam athlete (Photo: Courtesy Blake Bekken)
High-tech products that not only improve the experience of our favorite sports but cross the line into performance enhancement have been hitting the mainstream with gusto recently, from Nike’s Vaporfly shoe, which helped usher in the first sub-two-hour marathon, to fast and efficient e-bikes that are proliferating on roads and trails. There are swimsuits that reduce drag, artificial wave pools for surfers that promise perfect swells every time, and a backpack that “floats” behind your torso to reduce your backpacking burden. And those are just a few recent examples.
Council leaders are wrestling with the prospect of asking residents to pay an extra 5% in council tax in 2021-22 after a year in which many have faced reduced income and unemployment as a result of Covid and with elections on the horizon for most upper tier councils outside London.
However, leaders told LGC they fear having to make further cuts to services if they do not apply the 2% increase to regular council tax and 3% adult social care precept that was announced at the spending review for upper tier councils.
Analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies found the government’s assumption that all councils will make the maximum council tax increase available to them accounted for three quarters of the 4.5% increase in local government spending power advertised by the chancellor.