Itâs been nearly six months since Laila Cowell tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
âMy initial symptoms were not at all alarming, I had lost my taste and smell, I had a fever, aches and pains and generally (was) weak and short of breath,â Cowell said during a press conference Monday morning. âI felt unwell, but not so ill that I needed to seek care in a hospital, and I took care of myself at home and fully expected to return to life as normal within two weeks.
âBy the end of week three, I felt much worse,â Cowell continued. âI had new symptoms including skin and joint pain, muscle pain, (brain) fog, chest pain, blurry vision and excessively high heart rate that showed up any time I did any minimal activity.â
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) â Healthcare workers and transgender advocates took to the Arkansas State Capitol Saturday to protest against HB1570. The Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act would ban gender transition procedures for Arkansans under the age of 18, including prescribing drugs.
Now that the Arkansas house and senate have passed the bill, transgender nursing student Carmen Angelica Gresham is nervous it could harm people like her.
âIâm a lot happier with my body. Iâm a lot happier with how Iâm treated and Iâm a lot more comfortable in my life,â Gresham said.
The UAMS student said she wasnât always comfortable with the body she was born with.
ANGOLA â The Steuben County Health Department is hosting a Saturday vaccine clinic for COVID-19, it was announced.
The clinic will be held from 12:30-7 p.m. this Saturday only. The Health Department uses the Moderna vaccine.
Health Department Administrator Alicia Walsh said the special clinic was being held for people who cannot make the typical clinic hours during the week. We re trying to offer hours for those that might be working or have other responsibilities in the week, Walsh said.
This is in addition to the clinic offered by Cameron Memorial Community Hospital, also at the Event Center. Cameron s hours are 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. Cameron offers the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine.
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Answer: Volunteering is a great way to give back and support your community. Senior Servicesâ Meals-on-Wheels program is an excellent opportunity for volunteers to not only provide a nutritious meal, but also to form friendships, share warm smiles, and provide a safety check for older adults, many of whom are living alone and having trouble preparing meals during the day.
Just about one year ago, the Meals-on Wheels program, which prided itself on providing hot lunch-time meals to senior participants in the program each weekday, shifted its Meals-on-Wheels delivery process to delivering five frozen meals, once per week in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 and keep participants and volunteers as safe as possible. As the number of COVID-19 cases decrease and the number of people vaccinated increase in our community, Senior Services plans to resume hot, daily meal delivery on Monday, May 3rd. That goal can only be reached with the support of community volunteers
As I mentioned in one of my previous articles, the transition period is one of, if not the, most challenging period for dairy cows during their production cycle.
During this time, cows experience four main physiological challenges: a drop in dry matter intake, an increase in nutrient demands, immunosuppression, and systemic stress and inflammation (especially around calving).
Therefore, the best approach to manage this group of animals is by addressing these challenges.
If we think about the drop in intake and the increase in nutrient needs, the main negative effects are animals getting into a negative energy balance (because they are using more nutrients than what they are consuming) and developing metabolic diseases such as ketosis and fatty liver.