Not from the virus, but of loneliness.
The 77-year-old widow says that months of at-home isolation with almost no contact except from her Lab-mix, Coco left her on the verge of ending her life.
“If I didn’t have my faith, I think I would have committed suicide. Really,” she says. “I felt like I was in jail.
“I just did not want to go on that way, just sitting alone, eating alone, day after day.”
Pierce has rebounded, in part by finding alternate methods of connectivity. But even after a year, she still struggles to navigate the pandemic, which has hit her age demographic particularly hard.
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Updated March 8, 2021
A photo collage of Professor Ibrahim Gambari and Garba Shehu during the vaccination event State House Clinic, Abuja. PHOTOS: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TV
In continuation of the national vaccination exercise, the Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, and the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu have taken their first dose of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Also Permanent Secretary State House, Tijjani Umar and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd).
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If, as widely expected, New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland survives her U.S. Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday and is sworn in as secretary of the interior, she will make history as the first Native American ever to serve in a presidential Cabinet.
But representation is only half the battle. From day one, Haaland will also be expected to address a festering backlog of problems left behind by predecessors who lacked her perspective as a citizen of the Laguna Pueblo, one of America’s 574 federally recognized tribes.
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February 19, 2021: The Minister of
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