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Off the Chart is an account of what goes on behind the scenes in health care. Jennifer Tipton takes readers through the nearly thirty-year journey of her nursing career, where they will experience the laughter, tears, hopes, and heartaches, all through the eyes of a nurse.
This book is filled with heart & humor, as it offers a deeper understanding into humankind and reminds us to embrace life and truly appreciate one another. Although those in the...
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FIGHT BACK! WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CORONAVIRUS NOW!
HOW TO PREVENT INFECTION!
WHAT TO DO IF YOU GET SICK!
TREAMENTS AND FINDING A CURE!
FIGHT BACK: How to Beat the Coronavirus separates fact from hype and offers practical, proven strategies and hope for conquering the COVID-19 pandemic. World renowned physician and author Dr. Chauncey Crandall outlines the latest health information on how to protect yourself, family, friends and community...
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People live in a sea of viruses. All creatures are host to these small organisms, which are made up of small bits of genetic information. Viruses are possessed by a drive to survive, but in order to reproduce they must invade a living cell.
Dr. William A. Haseltine, PhD, has spent a lifetime studying viruses and their ability to adapt and flourish within an ever-changing environment. In Variants! The Shape-Shifting Challenge of COVID-19, Dr. Haseltine...
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This guidance note underscores the potential of education technology (EdTech) solutions in transforming learning, teaching, and training systems during and after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, governments have been coping with and responding to the challenges posed by the closure of education institutions while guidelines from international agencies seek to address the disruptions and responses. Drawing from...
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Pandemic-stressed families breathe slowly. We are lockdown survivors.
How does one family react to lockdown? From New York to London, Oxford, the Cotswolds, Belfast, Bellagio, Byron Bay and Wuhan, four siblings and their families share common experiences of fear, anxiety and isolation. Yet, resilience and a strength of spirit prevail as new forms of meaning are found.
The story tells of intriguing, touching responses to the impact of isolation on...
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My wife is kind of pro-Trump but I cannot describe myself as a big Trump fan. Despite our settlement that Mr. Trump did some good deeds (to a TBD degree) and that his approach and management are not always neat, we have stir-and-fried many discussions during our breakfasts, lunches and dinners, especially during this no-where-to-go pandemic time. My wife put her iPhone on the table so we can quickly settle a storm in a teacup or rice bowl by googling...
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A fascinating look into the life of a state surgeon general and how his public health decisions provide a blueprint for fearless leadership and better national health policy
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo shares the inspiring story of how he came to be who he is:
• How a traumatic event he experienced as a child shaped his life,
• How getting free of fear affected his outlook on the COVID pandemic and the politics surrounding it,
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Kent Heckenlively, New York Times bestselling author of Plague of Corruption, calls upon both common sense and legal precedence to fight against vaccine mandates around the country.
"My body, my choice!" used to be the rallying cry of the left in the abortion fight. But now this same principle of bodily autonomy is the central argument of conservatives, such as that of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in fierce opposition to so-called "vaccine passports,"...
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For readers of Plague of Corruption, Thomas S. Cowan, MD, and Sally Fallon Morell ask the question: are there really such things as "viruses"? Or, are electro smog, toxic living conditions, and 5G actually to blame for COVID-19?
The official explanation for today's COVID-19 pandemic is a "dangerous, infectious virus." This is the rationale for isolating a large portion of the world's population in their homes so as to curb its spread. From face masks...
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This Will Remain With Us is a collection of poems written during the Covid-19 pandemic when Melissa Mendelson suddenly found herself declared an "essential worker."
In the midst of the turmoil, she turned to poetry to document and cope with the challenge of the lockdown, and isolation.
A philosophical, liminal, insightful collection of poetry from a difficult time for the collective soul.
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Virus: Vaccinations, the CDC, and the Hijacking of America's Response to the Pandemic takes readers on an extraordinary journey from the medical science of viruses and vaccines, to conspiracy theories, through the history of knowledge, to the precipice-where we are now-of uncertainty about the future. This is not a book for those who think they already know how the story ends, but one that asks the tough questions in terse, hard-hitting paragraphs...
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Are you working from home? How's that going for you?
Whether you're one of the millions of workers sent home when the pandemic struck, or you made the move from cubicle to kitchen table for other reasons, you've probably discovered the truth: Working from home (WFH) is tough.
At home, distractions and challenges reign supreme. Hurdles range from navigating new technology, to dealing with your five-year-old's full-blown tantrum during a Zoom...
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The economic and social impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been dramatic, and transport has played a central role in its spread. The transport sector has also enabled essential workers to get to work during the pandemic and will support the needs of the population throughout the different stages of recovery. This guidance note presents (i) the impacts of the pandemic on social and travel behaviors in Asia and the Pacific, and how the...
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"During my first post-lockdown massage, I willingly engaged in the requisite chit chat about lockdown experiences with my therapist. He gushed behind his mask: 'Oh man. It was so great. Every day I woke up, drank coffee, read, rode my bike...'
My therapist's description did sound pretty great. But it was nothing like my own anxiety-ridden ordeal...
Had I done the lockdown wrong?"
In Next Time There's a Pandemic, artist Vivek Shraya reflects on how...
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Somalia's Mother Teresa chose love over fear.
Amid a volatile mix of disease, war, and religious fundamentalism in the Horn of Africa, what difference could one woman make? Annalena Tonelli left behind career, family, and homeland anyway, moving to a remote Muslim village in northern Kenya to live among its outcasts – desert nomads dying of tuberculosis, history's deadliest disease.
"I am nobody," she always insisted. Yet by the time she was killed...
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For as long as humans have lived on this earth, nature has done its very best to rid the planet of us. This book not only looks back at a number of times in recorded history where the future of our very existence was put in jeopardy, but also asks whether we could survive a resurgence of these pandemics… or even an entirely new as-yet undetected threat. From the plague of Justinian, through the Black Death and Spanish flu, to the 2015/16 Zika outbreak,...
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As the Ebola epidemic becomes more frightening-and hits closer to home-people are looking for answers. How does it spread? Are we at risk? How do we protect ourselves and our families from this deadly disease? In this necessary new book, Dr. Joseph Alton, an MD who is at the forefront of crisis medicine, explains the virus, how it spreads, how to prevent infection, and what the right treatment protocol is if the virus is contracted. He explains in...
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As the Zika virus continues to spread throughout North America, people need answers. What are the origins of this virus? How does it spread? Should we be concerned? How can we stop the spread of infected mosquitos? With the increasing prevalence of Zika, concrete answers are needed now more than ever - The Zika Prevention Handbook serves as the best reference for readers to stay informed about side-effects and symptoms, and to minimize your chance...
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Pandemics cannot be eliminated, but they can be stopped; the trick is discovering what will curtail any one particular outbreak. Renowned environmentalist and science writer Albert Bates presents an easy-to-understand scientific overview of the global consequences of pandemics and offers a fresh perspective on how we can coexist with them, individually and collectively. Bates recounts the history of deadly pandemics and provides a basic explanation...
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