Former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen spent 40 days in an induced coma last year after developing Covid and when he finally woke up last May, he was a much-changed man.
He discovered that he’d almost died or, as he puts it, ‘disappeared’ several times. When he came to, his muscles had weakened through lack of use, his breathing was laboured and he had to relearn basic skills, such as how to walk.
But what really hit Michael, 75, was how much his eyesight had changed. Whereas before he’d only needed weak glasses for reading, now he was struggling to see.
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Vaccination sites in Dallas, Denton counties closed Friday due to weather
People scheduled for vaccination Friday will be able to come back for their shot a different day.
People in a long line of cars get ready for their second doses at Fair Park in Dallas County on Sunday, February 21, 2021.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
: Updated to reflect the closure of the Potter’s House vaccination site.
Vaccinations sites in Dallas and Denton counties will be closed Friday due to the weather, health officials said.
Operations at Dallas County’s mega vaccination clinic at Fair Park will resume as normal on Saturday, the department said in a tweet.
Drop-down menus on online forms: They could be the death of us.
On Thursday, journalist and programmer Dan Nguyen pointed out a darkly comic incident report connected to a flight over the summer. During a pandemic hiatus, an unnamed airline operator upgraded the system that helps ensure an accurate load sheet the document tabulating the estimated weight of the passengers, crew, cargo, etc. The problem: The new system included titles and assumed that anyone listed as “Miss” must be a child. The incident report for the July 21 flight from Birmingham, England, to Mallorca, Spain, says:
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“The system allocated them a child’s standard weight of 35 kg as opposed to the correct female standard weight of 69 kg. Consequently, with 38 females checked in incorrectly and misidentified as children, the G-TAWG takeoff mass from the load sheet was 1,244 kg below the actual mass of the aircraft.”