When the COVID-19 pandemic struck just over a year ago, jobs were lost, and already-busy parents were suddenly tasked with overseeing their kidsâ educations, some having to quit their jobs or at least put work aside. Even the pristine, and wealthy, Jackson Hole felt the pain of one of the pandemicâs many byproducts: food insecurity.
Organizations of all types stepped up their efforts to help those in need, including local churches eager to find a way to keep their neighborsâ stomachs sated. Two such Jackson churches, Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church and Presbyterian Church of Jackson Hole, had to get creative to continue serving meals to the community. And with the help of teams of committed volunteers, they have thus far succeeded.
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While efficient, the efficacy of international platform trials in getting sound results on COVID-19 was called into question by NIH statisticians.
This type of randomized clinical trial (RCT) skips a lot of the time-consuming work of setting up separate trials. Instead, multiple experimental treatment groups are compared with a single control group and experimental arms can enter and exit the trial at different times as evidence emerges.
Large pragmatic platform trials have been behind most of the successes in finding treatments for COVID-19, including the RECOVERY and REMAP-CAP trials.
However, this feature that leads to the speed useful in a pandemic can also undermine the key tenet of RCTs: that randomization yields equivalent patient populations so that between-group differences can be attributed solely to the treatment.
WorldLegacy Leadership Team Transforms Lives by Providing Abundant Clean Water in Malawi, Africa
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WorldLegacy’s NC185 Leadership team will create an extreme makeover by installing new and refurbished wells in a community in Malawi, Africa. This will allow children to attend school rather than walk for miles and miles each day to fetch water.
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Partner with a WorldLegacy Leadership team, from around the world, to create an extreme makeover in Malawi. Funding and installation of wells will be completed in only 12 days. Children will be able to attend school rather than walk for miles and miles to fetch water. The impossible, is possible.
Undeterred By 2020, Alpha Beta ESA Continues To Make A Difference Sunday, January 10, 2021 - by Betty A. Proctor, Alpha Beta ESA
From left, Alpha Beta members Florence Cerantonio and Rebecca Burchard assisted the Tony O Rear Bowl for Life event staff with team registrations
The Alpha Beta chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha enjoyed an engaging year in spite of limitations imposed by COVID-19. Just prior to the pandemic, Alpha Beta President Angela VanAllman and chapter members made plans for another exciting and fulfilling year that included supporting philanthropic efforts, ways and means projects, educational programs, socials, and more.
The Tony O’Rear Bowl for Life Tournament to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital marked its 20th anniversary in February 2020. Tony, the son of former Alpha Beta member Barbara Breedwell, lost his fight against cancer at age 12. Chapter members support this annual event by soliciting door prizes, registering teams, and preparing