Nursing home COVID-19 case drop linked to vaccinations, according to report
Nursing home COVID-19 case drop linked to vaccinations, according to report By Roslyn Anderson | March 5, 2021 at 7:13 PM CST - Updated March 7 at 6:59 PM
RIDGELAND, Miss. (WLBT) - Families with residents in nursing homes may soon be able to see and hug their loved ones again.
Nursing homes and long term care facilities report a dramatic drop in coronavirus cases since the vaccine rollout.
It’s a welcomed shot in the arm for the elderly longing for the return to normalcy.
Residents and staff at the Ridgeland Place retirement facility took the final steps to fight COVID-19 Friday by rolling up their sleeves for the second dose of the vaccine.
By Ryan Shepard
Mar 3, 2021
On March 11, 2020, the world stopped spinning. Within a span of 24 hours, the NBA season came to a screeching halt,
Tom Hanks tested positive for COVID-19, and the country shut down. Over the next few weeks, thousands tested positive for COVID-19 and many died. Those who survived dealt with the economic toll of businesses shutting down and stocks falling. Millions of Americans filed for unemployment, many struggled to pay rent, and others were evicted from their homes. Nearly a year later, many things have stayed the same. Millions of Americans are still struggling, but there is a faint glimmer of hope - coronavirus vaccines.
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Here s how Black-owned Cincinnati businesses are faring one year into the COVID-19 economic crisis
Weathering the turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic has been especially difficult for African American entrepreneurs, according to reporting by WCPO 9 and the Cincinnati Herald.
By: Lucy May and Nailah Edwards
Posted at 7:00 AM, Mar 02, 2021
and last updated 2021-03-02 20:11:36-05
This story was reported in partnership with The Cincinnati Herald.
CINCINNATI About this time last year, Donny Harper opened his new Go(o)d Company Apparel store on Vine Street in Over-the-Rhine.
Before he could schedule an official grand opening, COVID-19 hit.
âThis is a location that Iâve been, like, praying for,â said Harper, who launched his clothing brand in 2014 and had a shop on Race Street before moving to his new location. âWe opened the doors at the beginning of March and, you know, the pandemic was stirring. And in the middle of March, they said, â
Growing up in Compton in the 1960s, Deborah Swan always looked forward to visits from her grandfather, Leon Hefflin Sr. A handsome, dapper man who wore a suit and a hat, Hefflin was a perpetual tinkerer. He had built her brother s bunk bed and created an aromatic tincture, Leon s Foot Ointment. He smoked a pipe and was very quiet. He never bragged about himself, Swan recalls. If he had been inclined to do so, he would ve had plenty to say.
Hefflin was a dreamer, a serial entrepreneur, a breaker of color barriers and the producer of the Cavalcade of Jazz, a trailblazing annual music festival that