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COVID pandemic: Homeschooling families took lessons on the road

Chelsea Forsythe was a teacher early in her career, ran a preschool out of her home and earned a master’s degree in education. The idea of homeschooling long percolated in the back of her mind, a backup plan in case of emergency.

That emergency came last fall as her kids returned to school. When the physical building reopened after the COVID-19 shutdown, the kids encountered drama about masks, drama about outbreaks, drama about how to safely do just about anything.

“Being a kid was pressure enough,” Chelsea says. “And to have to add that on top of it I was like, nope.”

Thus began the Forsythes’ foray into homeschooling. The reckoning over what kind of education Chelsea and her husband, John, wanted for their six kids turned into a reckoning about what kind of life they wanted.

Life is short. Did they really want to spend so much of

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Nicky Chicca by — September 14, 2021 in My Tech High
Singing River hospital emergency room deals with COVID surge

Cynthia Mullens stood in 95-degree heat outside of the Ocean Springs Hospital emergency room, her swollen feet laying atop a worn pair of sandals.

“Look at this!” she cried, pointing to a blister that covered about a fourth of her foot.

Mullen, who has lupus, had left the waiting room a few minutes earlier, upon learning a nearby mother-daughter duo were coughing because of COVID-19 diagnoses.

“That lady in the corner? I thought, oh my God, I’ve got to get out of here. I said I’m going outside. I mean this delta, you’re breathing the same air, I’m freaking out.”

The Ocean Springs resident was one of a few people waiting on a recent Tuesday afternoon outside of the ER, where the waiting room was filled with patients who were told they could wait as long as five hours for care — a short estimate compared to recent wait times

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Nicky Chicca by — August 24, 2021 in Er Tech
Photo Essay: Senior year in the age of COVID

Caria Taylor, a member of Cass Tech High School’s Class of 2021, used the isolation of COVID as an opportunity to develop her hobbies: reading, writing, and photography.

When George Floyd was murdered, and racial justice protests swept across the country, she was out in the streets with her camera. Caria leaned on organizations such as Capturing Belief, a Detroit-based photography program, and the Detroit Youth Choir — groups that helped to develop her creative vision and voice long before the pandemic began.

After watching the Class of 2020 miss out on their proms and traditional graduation ceremonies, among other rites of passage, Caria and her class had the opportunity to attend those milestone events together. It was the first time she had seen many of her classmates since March 2020, and they managed to pick up just where they left off.

In these pictures and an original poem,

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Nicky Chicca by — August 15, 2021 in My Tech High
ER health practitioner talks about ‘horrid’ shift in stunning CNN job interview as region as soon as all over again reaches for masks to combat COVID

A day immediately after new mask suggestions by the Centers for Condition Regulate and Avoidance, we’re still making an attempt to determine out specifically where we are when it comes to COVID-19 and masks and vaccines.

Are vaccinated people nonetheless somewhat safe and sound? How risky is this delta variant? Why do vaccinated people today will need to have on masks indoors? Is it just to guard the unvaccinated? If not more than enough persons get vaccinated, is all this — mask-donning, breakthrough cases, COVID-19 variants — the new usual?

And, of course, as considerably as the conversation revolves about science, politics also are a portion of the discussion. For instance, Christina Pushaw, the push secretary for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, instructed Fox News that the most up-to-date suggestion for masks “isn’t based in science. There is no indicator that areas with mask mandates have performed any improved than parts

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Nicky Chicca by — July 29, 2021 in Er Tech
ER staff come nearer alongside one another for the duration of COVID 12 months

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – Emergency Area doctors and nurses at the College of Kansas Health and fitness Procedure St. Francis Campus are on higher notify at all occasions, and the COVID-19 pandemic heightened their senses.

Teamwork helps make the desire function. That slogan is in full impact, 24/7 in the TUKHS St. Francis emergency place. Director of the ER Brigette Cowan explained interaction is essential specially by way of the COVID calendar year.

“Our staff has been ready to recoup a minor little bit whilst it takes a good deal for them to just take treatment of the patients’ bedside and it’s just been a very difficult yr,” she mentioned.

Parker Jones started out as a tech in 2017 for St. Francis ahead of graduating from Washburn University. He explained he manufactured the shift to the ER for the adrenaline hurry and not currently being capable to execute his finest

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Nicky Chicca by — July 26, 2021 in Er Tech