Asa Candler 1851-1929
This flowing copperplate script with red and white colours is a logo that is recognisable around the world. Its success is due to Asa Candler, whose primary motivation in all he attempted was to be faithful to God through his stewardship.
Asa Candler was a very rich man who was successful in real estate development and banking. He faithfully embraced the principle of Christian stewardship. His belief was that God gives wealth to individuals in order to promote His kingdom on earth.
His inspiration was from Jesus’ teaching about not storing up treasures on earth that can be stolen or lost but storing up treasures in heaven where they will never be stolen or lost. This inspiration led him to support many Christian endeavours, including the training of young men and women in the teachings of Jesus.
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ATLANTA – Health care workers are thought to be at high risk for contracting COVID-19 from on-the-job exposures. However, new research from Emory University shows exposures to people with COVID-19 outside the workplace, as well as Black race, were the strongest predictors of positive COVID-19 antibody tests, also known as seropositivity, in health care workers. The study was published online in the
Annals of Internal Medicine on Jan. 29, 2021.
The researchers also determined living in a zip code with higher COVID-19 incidence increased the risk of seropositivity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as did reported contact with an infected health care worker.
Georgia Law Blocks Families of Nursing Home Residents from Suing Over COVID Deaths February 2, 2021
A suburban Atlanta nursing home where 22 people died from COVID-19 has been faulted by state inspectors for failing to control infections, but relatives of people who died say they can’t sue because Georgia lawmakers last year blocked lawsuits unless plaintiffs can prove the difficult-to-meet standard of gross negligence.
WXIA-TV reports that multiple state reports faulted infection control at Westbury Nursing Home in Conyers, where at least 85 residents have been infected. That includes an October inspection where Georgia Department of Community Health inspectors found Westbury put residents in immediate jeopardy by keeping COVID-19 positive and negative residents in the same rooms, improperly performing COVID-19 tests, and failing to notify state officials.
The state Department of Public Health is reporting that at least six cases of a COVID-19 variant first spotted in England are now here in Georgia. GPB’s Ellen Eldridge reports.
Caption A Walgreens pharmacist prepares a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Credit: AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File
One of the most recent variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 disease is making news because it is more transmissible, according to the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention.
That means B.1.1.7 could infect and thereby kill more people, said Dr. Colleen Kraft, associate chief medical officer at Emory University Hospital and associate professor at Emory University School of Medicine.
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DUNWOODY, GA While U.S. coronavirus cases and deaths have been trending downward over the past week, hospitals across the country still report straining to meet the demands of the ongoing pandemic.
At the national level, during the week ending Jan. 25, deaths were running at an average of just under 3,100 a day down from a peak of more than 3,350 in the weeks prior, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. New cases were averaging about 170,000 a day after hitting almost 250,000 earlier this month.
Meanwhile, state health officials in Georgia reported to the federal government that 83 percent of all inpatient beds in hospitals across the state were still occupied as of Jan. 23. Around 28 percent of beds statewide were filled by COVID-19 patients, they reported.