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California schools break from Health Center in setting COVID guidelines

The Moniteau County R-1 School District’s latest amended COVID guidelines were changed without input from the Moniteau County Health Center. Earlier this month, the district’s Board of Education elected to adopt an addendum to its existing policies — risk levels denoting the transmission of COVID within the school community, from…

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Williamson Medical Center recognized by national infectious disease society | Health

Williamson Medical Center (WMC) has been recognized as an Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).   This designation acknowledges the health system’s systematic efforts to optimize the use of antibiotics to maximize patient benefits and minimize both the rise of antibiotic resistance as…

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How mental health conditions can raise COVID risk : Shots

Digital generated image of cut out male head multilayered with covid-19 cells inside on blue background. Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Digital generated image of cut out male head multilayered with covid-19 cells inside on blue background. Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Even before the federal government’s…

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The race to ace: how mass tutoring risks children’s mental health and entrenching inequality | Australian education

Sydney-based mother of two Fiona* was stressed about the effects of lockdown on her 10-year-old son’s learning. “When the lockdown happened everything went haywire,” she says, and they could barely cope with schoolwork. So she and her husband decided to “take a [financial] hit” and book their son in for…