MAY Paying tribute: The Hexham Courant listed the names of hundreds of key workers from across the district who had worked hard to keep the county going during the first months of the coronavirus crisis. Harrowing ordeal: Covid-19 survivor Janice Keen was reunited with nurse Theresa Smith, who had helped to save her life. Janice said Theresa gave her a reason to keep fighting. Spot swamped: Outraged residents in Bellingham urged people not to visit popular North Tyne beauty spot Hareshaw Linn after visitors arrived in their droves following the easing of lockdown restrictions. JUNE Fires blaze: The Tyne Valley was hit by two fires in the space of a weekend – first a house in Allendale was destroyed, then the Haydon Fell Plantation was devastated by a second fire.
To the editor: If you have wondered what you can do to make a positive impact in the lives of our elders living in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, here is a list of actions you can take that will directly improve the safety of their environments and the wellness of the people in their worlds.
Normalize masks Sharing is definitely not caring when it comes to our own droplets and aerosols; the science is clear that wearing a mask is the most effective way to keep your airborne particles to yourself. Lowering the infection rate in the general community will in turn protect nursing home employees and residents from contracting the COVID-19 virus. Wearing a mask today will help nursing home residents and their families to reunite in person sooner.
Brett Kahn was sentenced to two years probation after the guilty plea.
The Chicago Police Board voted in April of last year to fire Kahn for a separate excessive force incident that occurred a month before the baton attack.
Kahn surrendered to sheriff s deputies four years ago after
being charged with felony aggravated battery and official misconduct stemming from a melee captured on camera in the summer of 2014 in Chicago s North Lawndale neighborhood.
Prosecutors said Kahn
hit 32-year-old Jeremiah Smith without provocation while he was on patrol responding to a block party celebrating record deals signed by two neighborhood teens with a major Atlanta label.
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dunnhumby, the global leader in customer data science, today released findings from the sixth wave of its Consumer Pulse Survey, a study of the impact of Covid-19 on customer behavior and attitudes across 21 countries. The dunnhumby Consumer Pulse Survey found that U.S. consumers plan on spending 25% less on food and 36% less on gifts this year, compared to 2019. Ten percent reported they would not be buying any gifts. This pullback in spending is occurring at the same time as consumers are increasingly worried about the virus, the economy, their personal finances and the rising cost of food.
Americans are at the highest level of worry about the virus (32%) since the crisis began and the sixth highest country globally
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