So far, all the positive cases involving the variant have been in the southeastern part of Michigan, although officials think other cases exist but haven't been diagnosed yet.
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Jan 26, 2021
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Along with social distancing and frequent hand washing, mask wearing is one of our best defenses against COVID-19.
But as the Mayo Clinic warns, not all masks are created equal, and some can be downright dangerous.
In a policy posted on its website, the Mayo Clinic has outlined which mask types are welcome on clinic grounds, and which are banned.
Among their list of “acceptable masks” are homemade masks that cover the nose and mouth and surgical or procedural masks. The one mask type explicitly branded as “unacceptable” on the Mayo Clinic’s list? Any mask with vents. Their reasoning is simple. While vented masks may help keep particles away from the wearer, “masks with vents or exhalation valves allow unfiltered exhaled air to escape.”
Colchester A local man who survived Eastern equine encephalitis and then COVID-19 has returned home after more than a year in rehabilitation centers, where he alleges he was neglected, abused and forced to attempt suicide.
In August 2019, Richard Pawulski was a healthy 42-year-old man and a successful physical therapist who had just moved into his dream home in Colchester with his wife, Malgorzata, and their teenage daughter, Amellia. He was doing yard work on a summer day when he was unknowingly bitten by a mosquito carrying the deadly Eastern equine encephalitis virus, commonly known as EEE.
Pawulski started feeling flu-like symptoms on Aug. 22 and was soon taken to a hospital, where he slipped into a coma that lasted two months.