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So now that you’re vaccinated . . .
I applaud the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent guidance update recommending that people who are fully vaccinated not be confined to quarantine after exposure to a case of Covid-19. more
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Student mental health has been a focus for school counselors during the pandemic.
Focusing on student mental health during Covid
The second of two stories examining student mental health. When the 2019-20 school year ended last June amid a still-spreading coronavirus pandemic, school counselors were well aware that the previous four months had been unlike any that schoolchildren — or their parents — had ever experienced. more
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With the subject of mental health all the more prevalent during the pandemic, the Bayville Free Library hosted a virtual seminar about suicide prevention.
Forestalling suicide by asking questions is topic at library class
Question, persuade and refer. Those were the three words highlighted in a Tuesday-night virtual class hosted by the Bayville Free Library, where Barbara Tedesco and Gayle Parker Wright, of United Health Care, led participants through a technique that could save someone from dying by suicide. Nationwide, 48,000 people take their own lives each year.    more
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Resolve to monitor your mental health in 2021
Let’s say it like it was: 2020 was miserable. It was a horrid year for us all. Everyone — everyone — was affected to one degree or another by . . . more
Joseph Benden, administrator of the Five Towns Premier Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, received his first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine on Monday.
Pfizer Covid vaccine comes to Five Towns Premier Rehabilitation
As the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out across the globe, some 200 residents and staff at the Five Towns Premier Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, in Woodmere, received their first dose of the two-dose Pfizer treatment on Monday, the first day the vaccines were made available to the nation’s nursing homes. more
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It’s time for America to come to its senses over guns
Listening to Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords speak, you’re quickly overcome by the urge to cry. The former congresswoman was once known for her incisive rhetoric, delivered with a magnetic smile. Then . . . more
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was nearly killed in a 2011 shooting, was among the featured speakers during Northwell Health’s two-hour virtual Gun Violence Prevention Forum last Thursday. Joining her was U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican of Pennsylvania.
Northwell hosts 2nd Gun Violence Prevention Forum
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords stood outside the Safeway supermarket northwest of Tuscon, Ariz., on Jan. 8, 2011, chatting with constituents about Medicare reimbursements, … more
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The rules exist for all of us
Q. I hired a carpenter to rebuild my garage because it was rotted and leaning. The roof was OK, so we kept it, but all the walls were stripped away and replaced. In the middle of the job . . . more
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Please, Mr. President, prioritize Covid-19 prevention
Let us begin by wishing President Trump and those around him well. He, First Lady Melania Trump and several top federal officials and campaign workers were diagnosed last week with the coronavirus. more
The CDC’s Covid-19 back-to-school checklist
Hundreds of thousands of students will start school across Long Island next week amid the worst disease outbreak in the United States since 1918. It is a time of fear and anxiety for many parents . . . more
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