A new study examines the responses of child nutrition administrative agencies as schools across the United States moved to online learning or hybrid models due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Our study aims to gather information on how states, territories, and Washington, DC, communicated with jurisdictions effectively to provide time-sensitive information on school meal programs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,” says Gabriella McLoughlin, research fellow at the Prevention Research Center and at the Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
None of the jurisdictions studied “executed a comprehensive plan to address [pandemic-related] food insecurity,” says McLoughlin, lead author of the study in the
The FDA has approved Pfizerâs COVID-19 vaccine for emergency distribution. Hereâs how it will be rolled out in Missouri
It could be several months before vaccines are available to the general public, said one hospital network spokesperson.
Courtesy of the CDC
St. Louis could see its first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus as early as Tuesday, December 15, according to Dr. Fredrick Echols, acting director of the St. Louis City Department of Health. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizerâs COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Friday night, according to
The New York Times, making the United States the sixth country to approve the vaccine.Â
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In August of 2017, Jenkins sought care from her regular physician for back pain. The active wife and mother of three had been experiencing back pain for several months, and it wasnât getting better. She wanted her doctor to give her the OK to see a chiropractor for the pain and to check her out.
Her doctor did not like the results from the blood work he did, so he had the blood tests repeated three or four times.
âHe called me on a Thursday. I was getting school stuff ready and missed a call from a number I didnât know,â Jenkins said.
New research published in the journal BMJ Open Ophthalmology shows the results of eighty-three patients who were recently diagnosed with the coronavirus.
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