This virtual (ONLINE) series will done in English with live interpretation in Spanish and Somali.

This training is open to anyone within the early childhood education community in WA state, (INCLUDING ALL FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND NEIGHBORS HELPING TO CARE FOR EACH OTHERS CHILDREN). So feel free to share the training opportunity widely!

The goal of this training series is to introduce and teach PROVIDERS, ECE admin, and consultants alike how to promote healthy development in children ages 0-5 with autism spectrum disorders.

All 3 trainings will be recorded so that folks unable to attend live sessions will be able to access it in mid-to-late November 2021.

Training: Promoting Social-Emotional Development
Tue, October 12tt, 2021
Time: from 1pm – 3pm

Training: Managing Challenging Behaviors
Tue, November 9th, 2021
Time: 1pm – 3pm

Here is the Zoom link for the trainings.

The same link and passcode will work for all 3 trainings.

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Which group of children at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19?
…., children with obesity, diabetes, asthma or chronic lung disease, sickle cell disease, or immunosuppression can also be at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.

Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the tasks, (AND/OR), environment or to the way things are usually done that enable individuals with disabilities to have an equal opportunity to participate in an academic program or a job (U.S. Department of Education, 2007).

Broad categories of accommodations include changes to the application process to ensure an equal opportunity to apply for program enrollment, changes that enable a student with a disability to perform the essential functions of the academic program, and changes that enable a student with a disability to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of the program (e.g., access to training).

Examples of accommodations by disability type and Accommodation Examples.

CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITION

Notetakers
Flexible attendance requirements
Extra exam time and allowances for breaks
Assignments made available in electronic format
Use of email to facilitate communication

LOW VISION

Seating near front of the classLarge print exams, handouts, signs, equipment/material labelsContrast-enhanced printed materialsImage-enlarging technology (e.g., TV monitor, magnifier)Electronic format for syllabi, assignments, readings, resourcesGlare guardsSupplementary light source.

BLINDNESS

Audio-recorded, brailled or electronic-formatted lecture notes, handouts, and textsVerbal or audio descriptions of visuals and videos
Raised-line drawings and tactile models of graphic materials
Braille lab signs and equipment labels; auditory lab warning signals
Adaptive lab equipment (e.g., talking calculators, tactile timers)
Computer with optical character reader, speech output, Braille screen display and Braille printer output

HEARING LOSS

Sign language interpreter
Seating near the instructor/speaker with an unobstructed view of the speaker’s face • Real-time captioning
FM system
Note taker
Alternate location for testing that has reduced auditory and visual distraction
Visual aids and written supplements to spoken instructions
Written assignments, lab instructions, summaries, notes
Use of email for class and private discussions

LEARNING DISABILITY

Note taker
Audio recorded lectures
Captioned films
Extended time on exams and assignments
Alternative testing arrangements/locations
Instructions provided in multiple formats, including visual, aural and tactile
Computer with voice output, spellchecker and grammar checker
Concise oral instructions, clear written instructions and well organized visual aids

MOBILITY/ MOTOR IMPAIRMENT

Notetaker, scribes, lab partners
Classrooms, labs and field trips in accessible locations, using accessible transportation
Computer with speech input, voice output and alternative keyboard
Wheelchair-friendly furniture and room arrangement (e.g., adjustable tables, space for a wheelchair, lab equipment located within reach)
Use of ramps and raised platforms for student’s accessClass materials available in electronic formatExtended time for completion of activities

SPEECH IMPAIRMENT

Alternative assignments for oral presentations (e.g., written assignments, one-to-one presentation)
Course substitutions
Flexibility with in-class discussions (e.g., consider online discussion boards)

Nearly 3% of medical workers in a new Israeli study contracted COVID-19 even though they were vaccinated, and 19% of them still had symptoms six weeks later.

The study followed about 1,500 Israeli health care workers for four months after they received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Anyone who tested positive more than 11 days after the second dose was considered a breakthrough case.

Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist who founded and directs the Scripps Research Translational Institute in California. said current vaccines are great at preventing serious infection deep in the lungs, but not at blocking infection in the upper airways.

What’s needed, he said, is a nasal-spray vaccine that would stop the coronavirus from taking hold at all.

“Those who are vaccinated did everything right, but some are going to go on to long-COVID, and that’s really unfortunate.”

Topol said the best protection is to get vaccinated and practice social measures like wearing a mask.

Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, said he is troubled by the fact that young, healthy people would get so-called breakthrough infections within a few months of vaccination.

Scientists expected protection to wane over time, and they expected the vaccines to be less effective among older people and those with pre-existing health conditions. But that’s not who got sick in this study.

Dr. Ashish Jha, said he finds it concerning – though not conclusive – that people had lingering symptoms weeks after getting sick.

“There really may be a risk here, but we don’t know how big a risk and how much of a problem it is,” he said.

Although the vaccines were never expected to be perfect, the findings raise questions about their protection and suggest that even vaccinated people could experience long-term symptoms such as such as fatigue, brain fog and shortness of breath.

Most of the people in the study who got sick had mild symptoms, and none were hospitalized.

The good news is none of the 39 people who got infected passed the coronavirus on to anyone else, according to the study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Although many people with COVID-19 get better within weeks, some people continue to experience symptoms that can last months after first being infected, or may have new or recurring symptoms at a later time. This can happen to anyone who has had COVID-19, even if the initial illness was mild. People with this condition are sometimes called “long-haulers.” This condition is known as “long COVID.”

In light of the rise of long COVID as a persistent and significant health issue, the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice have joined together to provide this guidance.

This guidance explains that long COVID can be a disability under Titles II (state and local government) and III (public accommodations) of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA),3 Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), and Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Section 1557).

Each of these federal laws protects people with disabilities from discrimination. This guidance also provides resources for additional information and best practices. This document focuses solely on long COVID, and does not address when COVID-19 may meet the legal definition of disability.

The civil rights protections and responsibilities of these federal laws apply even during emergencies.

They cannot be waived.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people with long COVID have a range of new or ongoing symptoms that can last weeks or months after they are infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 and that can worsen with physical or mental activity.

Examples of common symptoms of long COVID include:
Tiredness or fatigue
Difficulty thinking or concentrating (sometimes called “brain fog”)
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Headache
Dizziness on standing
Fast-beating or pounding heart (known as heart palpitations)
Chest pain
Cough
Joint or muscle pain
Depression or anxiety
Fever
Loss of taste or smell
This list is not exhaustive.

Some people also experience damage to multiple organs including:
heart
lungs
kidneys
skin
brain.

Long COVID is a physiological condition affecting one or more body systems. For example, some people with long COVID experience:
Lung damage
Heart damage, (including inflammation of the heart muscle)
Kidney damage
Neurological damage
Damage to the circulatory system resulting in poor blood flow

Lingering emotional illness and other mental health conditions

Accordingly, long COVID is a physical or mental impairment under the ADA, Section 504, and Section 1557.

NOTE:
Is long COVID always a disability?
No.
An individualized assessment is necessary to determine whether a person’s long COVID condition or any of its symptoms substantially limits a major life activity. The CDC and health experts are working to better understand long COVID.

This guidance addresses the “actual disability” part of the disability definition. The definition also covers individuals with a “record of” a substantially limiting impairment or those “regarded as” having a physical impairment (whether substantially limiting or not). This document does not address the “record of” or “regarded as” parts of the disability definition, which may also be relevant to claims regarding long COVID.

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METFORMIN – More than 175 different drug combinations have been recalled since late May.

Kansas City-based Nostrum Laboratories has issued a voluntary recall of two lots of Metformin HCl Extended Release Tablets, USP 750 mg. The addition of Nostrum’s pills come as 76 more lots were flagged in October for a possible cancer-causing ingredient.

The recall of extended-release metformin continues as two more lots of the diabetes drug have been added to the recall list.

The FDA announced the previous recall, involving Marksans Pharma Limited and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries products, on Oct. 5. It involves the 500mg and 700mg tablets.

Why 7 Deadly Diseases Strike Blacks Most, © 2005 WebMD, Inc. All rights reserved

Health care disparities heighten disease differences between African-Americans and white Americans.

Several deadly diseases strike black Americans harder and more often than they do white Americans.
Why?
“Genes definitely play a role. So does the environment in which people live, socioeconomic status — and, yes, racism,” says Clyde W. Yancy, MD, associate dean of clinical affairs and medical director for heart failure/transplantation at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Some numbers
• Diabetes is 60% more common in black Americans than in white Americans. Blacks are up to 2.5 times more likely to suffer a limb amputation and up to 5.6 times more likely to suffer kidney disease than other people with diabetes.
• African-Americans are three times more likely to die of asthma than white Americans.
• Deaths from lung scarring — sarcoidosis — are 16 times more common among blacks than among whites. The disease recently (2004) killed former NFL star Reggie White at age 43.
• Despite lower tobacco exposure, black men are 50% more likely than white men to get lung cancer.
• Strokes kill 4 times more 35- to 54-year-old black Americans than white Americans. Blacks have nearly twice the first-time stroke risk of whites.
• Blacks develop high blood pressure earlier in life — and with much higher blood pressure levels — than whites. Nearly 42% of black men and more than 45% of black women aged 20 and older have high blood pressure.
• Cancer treatment is equally successful for all races. Yet black men have a 40% higher cancer death rate than white men. African-American women have a 20% higher cancer death rate than white women.

Marksans Pharma Limited Issues Expansion of Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Metformin Hydrochloride Extended-Release Tablets, USP 500mg & 750mg, Due to the Detection of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA)
Summary
Company Announcement Date:
October 02, 2020
FDA Publish Date:
October 05, 2020
Product Type:
Drugs
Reason for Announcement:
Due to the Detection of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) Impurity
Company Name:
Marksans Pharma Limited
Brand Name:
Time-Cap Labs Inc.
Product Description:
Metformin Hydrochloride for Extended-Release Tablets, USP 500 mg and 700 mg

Risk Statement: NDMA is classified as a probable human carcinogen (a substance that could cause cancer) based on results from laboratory tests. NDMA is a known environmental contaminant found in water and foods, including meats, dairy products and vegetables. Marksans Pharma Limited has not received any reports of adverse events that have been related to this recall.

The risk of developing cervical cancer was reduced by 88 percent in women who had been vaccinated before age 17, and by 53 percent in those vaccinated between ages 17 and 30, according to the study of nearly 1.7 million girls and women.

A large Swedish study found the HPV vaccine substantially reduces a woman’s risk of developing cervical cancer, especially in women who were immunized at a younger age.