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Early in 2020, the city of Jackson received a Leadership in Community Resilience grant from NLC to design and activate its Heat Preparedness Plan. Through a series of targeted interviews, surveys, and focus groups with frontline residents, the team set out to better understand how Jackson’s most at-risk residents perceive the dangers of extreme heat, and how they typically prepare for these often-life-threatening events.
Although it is now winter across much of the US and the worst of the summer heat has subsided, it is easy to forget that 2020 was a record-breaking year for extreme heat (again):
August was the warmest summer on record
Family of Man Attacked by Fire Ants at V.A. Facility Before His Death Sues U.S.
Joel Marrable, an Air Force veteran, was largely bedridden by cancer and “incapable” of defending himself when ants attacked him at a Veterans Affairs facility, his family said.
Joel Marrable and his daughter Laquna Ross.Credit.Family photo
Feb. 3, 2021
The family of a military veteran who died in 2019 after he was bitten all over his body by fire ants while at a Veterans Affairs facility in Atlanta filed a wrongful-death lawsuit this week against the U.S. government and a pest control company.
Washington: The family of a military veteran who died in 2019 after he was bitten all over his body by fire ants while at a Veterans Affairs facility in Atlanta filed a wrongful-death lawsuit this week against the US government and a pest control company.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in US District Court in Atlanta, claims that Joel Marrable, 73, an Air Force veteran who had advanced lung cancer, died prematurely because he suffered more than 100 fire ant bites in two attacks shortly before his death.
There is “poison” in the fire ant bites, Brewster Rawls, a lawyer representing the three adult children of Marrable who filed the lawsuit, said in an interview Wednesday. “The shock of the bites and the toxins, cumulatively, were just enough to push the poor man over the edge.”
COVID-19 vaccines to be available at Walmart Walmart (Source: Walmart corporate website) By WLBT Digital | February 2, 2021 at 2:28 PM CST - Updated February 2 at 4:48 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - On Tuesday, state leaders gave an update on the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said a new federal partnership means that vaccinations will soon be available at about 30 Walmart pharmacies across the state.
Dobbs didn’t say what Walmart stores were included in the partnership, but said more than 6,000 doses are likely to be allocated to the stores by late next week.
Meanwhile, the University of Mississippi Medical Center is planning to open a walk-up vaccination clinic at the Jackson Medical Mall. Dobbs would not say when it would open, except to stay “stay tuned.”
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