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Showing posts with label pandemic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pandemic. Show all posts
Saturday, December 31, 2022

New York Times: "Epidemics That Weren’t: How Countries Shut Down Recent Outbreaks"

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Benjy Renton ( @bhrenton ) tweeted Thu, Dec 29, 2022: It is important to acknowledge the instances globally in which the public health syste...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

The TED Interview: "A future without pandemics? with Mark Smolinski"

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"In 2011, when medical doctor and epidemiologist Mark Smolinski was working as a science advisor for the blockbuster film “Contagion,”...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

Where will the next pandemic come from? Maybe a glacier??

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"The next pandemic may come not from bats or birds but from matter in melting ice, according to new data. Genetic analysis of soil and ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

“Vaccines remain our single most important tool to protect people against serious illness, hospitalizations, and deaths"

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"The White House COVID-19 response team held a news conference Tuesday in which officials focused on the threat posed by the rise of th...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

If the latest COVID variant is evading defenses, what will schools look like in September?

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"The pandemic is a relentless race against Mother Nature. Waves of infection took millions of lives, and only highly effective vaccines...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

COVID Updates: State quarantine guidelines change; FPS COVID dashboard

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 " State drops quarantine for close COVID contacts in schools, childcare" "IN A SIGN of the continually evolving nature of th...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Reminder: New set of COVID at home tests can be ordered

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"The White House said on Tuesday (5/17/22) that Americans were now eligible for a third order of free, at-home coronavirus tests shippe...
Friday, May 20, 2022

1 million is a big number

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The info graphic tells the story of the progression of COVID deaths as the pandemic started and proceeded along (thus far).  One million is ...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

"It's possible that in the near future, a MAJORITY of people dying of COVID may be vaccinated"

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Dr Thrasher (PhD at Northwestern Univ) created a Twitter thread that is share worthy: "So today I want to write a thread I've been...
Friday, May 6, 2022

COVID-19 weekly date updates (post vacation bump seen)

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1 -  The weekly Franklin Public Schools COVID-19 dashboard is now available to view here:   https://sites.google.com/franklinps.net/back-to-...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

"Indications within the United States support the idea that new wave is already getting started"

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  "When it comes to COVID, the United States specializes in denialism. Deny the human-to-human transmission of the virus when China’s f...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Vaccination rate for Franklin moving oh so slowly upward

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"Explore the overall first-dose vaccinations in each community, and see the racial/ethnic breakdown of who is receiving those vaccines....

Urgency of Equity: a toolkit to help communities sort out fact from fiction

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There is a moral urgency to protect all students & staff, including those who are most vulnerable. We put together a toolkit to help com...
Friday, February 18, 2022

School Committee Special Mtg - 02/16/22 (audio) responding to an OPML complaint and amending the mask policy

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FM #732 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 732 in the series.  This session of the radio show shares the Special School Commi...
Monday, February 14, 2022

Superintendent Letter to Franklin Community re: Special Meeting Feb 16, 2022

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February 14, 2022 Dear Franklin Community, You may be aware that last week, Governor Baker and Commissioner Riley held a press conference an...

"These roles will be critical in a time of recovery"

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Brenda Cassellius, superintendent of Boston Public Schools writes: "Last month, I returned to teaching in a classroom after two decades...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Lesson we should remember

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"Nearly all cities in the United States imposed restrictions during the pandemic’s virulent second wave, which peaked in the fall of 19...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Franklin Public Schools, MA: Weekly COVID-19 Dashboard

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"The FPS Weekly COVID-19 Dashboard is available to view on our Back to School webpage here: https://t.co/mJFgollw0z  " or    https...
Friday, January 28, 2022

COVID-19 coming down from this hill

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Franklin, MA COVID-19 case counts continue to be driven by the omicron variant. This week the positivity rate is at 15.0% down from last w...
Friday, January 21, 2022

Boston Globe: The need for substitute teachers; Globe’s climate team is expanding and rethinking its coverage

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"When Toni Preston began substitute teaching for Cambridge Public Schools in November of 2019, she monitored the online job listings th...