By MEREDITH COHN | The Baltimore Sun | Published: December 30, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. BALTIMORE (Tribune News Service) Just as much of the nation was shutting down because of the coronavirus pandemic in March, Michaelene Carlton’s 17-year-old son tested positive for COVID-19 and quickly passed it to his parents. Carlton had the worst of the symptoms but never went to a hospital and mostly recovered in a couple of weeks. “Then, six weeks later I got ridiculously sick, like so sick I lost about 10% of my body weight and could barely get out of bed,” said the usually healthy 46-year-old Delaware woman who eventually landed at a Johns Hopkins Hospital clinic for post-COVID-19 patients.
Inspirational Women of Birdland: Fans Making A Difference in Our Community
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December 30th, 2020
This year has been exceptionally challenging no one can deny that.
In an effort to find the positive, we looked to some of our most inspiring Birdland Members, who provided some sure-fire ways to refuel, refocus and find gratitude as we look ahead to 2021.
Whether they are a frontline worker, a nonprofit leader or a work-from-home mother, many women of Birdland have similar motivators.
Birdland Insider spoke with four of our Birdland Members about their work in the community and the ways they stay inspired to continue making a difference:
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Montgomery: In-person help for residents needing assistance with unemployment claims is coming to an end as a new phone appointment system will be established for the new year. The Department of Labor said it is ending in-person service at the Crump Senior Center because of health and safety concerns related to the coronavirus. The last dates for such service will be Monday and Tuesday. Appointments for those days will be available on the ADOL website www.labor.alabama.gov. Claimants can call (800) 361-4524 beginning Sunday after 5 p.m. until midnight on Sundays through Thursday to schedule a call-back for the next day to set up an appointment. Claimants are encouraged to keep their phones near them for their scheduled call-back, the department said. The calls will come from a Montgomery number. State of
Marquise Francis
December 22, 2020, 8:57 AM
When Sandra Lindsay, a Black nurse at a hospital in Queens, N.Y., became the first person in the U.S. to receive the coronavirus vaccine on Monday of last week, much of the medical world breathed a collective sigh of relief. The historic moment, captured on video, symbolized the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 nightmare.
“It feels surreal,” Lindsay said after receiving the vaccine. “It is a huge sense of relief for me, and hope.”
Lindsay also noted that it was important for a Black American to be seen getting the vaccine so as to assure those who often distrust the medical system and have suffered disproportionately during the pandemic.