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Virtual Recruitment for Greek Life has been one of the many ways sororities and Fraternities have adapted to COVID-19. Reporter Keagan Hughes interviewed, Alexandra Benc, Chapter President of Alpha Phi, Shelby Baker, a sophomore sister in Zeta Tau Alpha, Bridgette Shallow, a junior in Alpha Delta Pi, and Charles Weismann, a Brother in Sigma Nu.
Alexandra Benc went into detail about how although the chapter bonding between sisters was lost because they could not physically meet in person, they still found other ways to make sure that the PNMS, potential new members, would still get that intimate and close bonds with the sisters.
Pandemic Parallels: Older adults remember polio vaccines newsadvance.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsadvance.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Poliomyelitis - better known as polio - is an infectious disease that most commonly affects children, causing paralysis. Summer of 1894, the U.S. experienced its first polio epidemic, but it wasn’t until 1955 that Dr. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was approved for nationwide inoculation. Shortly after, a second vaccine option was approved for manufacturing with easier admission at a cheaper cost by Dr. Albert Bruce Sabin in 1961.
After cases peaked in 1952, with roughly 58,000 people diagnosed with polio in the U.S., the final case of wild-virus polio in the U.S. was reported in 1979.
With a tight-fisted grip around the nation, polio impacted thousands of children annually into the late 1950s, mercilessly attacking the nervous system. It was typically identified by paralyzed limbs, most frequently the legs. By 1957, there were less than 6,000 cases, and it had dropped to 120 cases by 1964, thanks to vaccines.