![]() This means that for the past 17 months, children of color have unduly suffered from stress and loss in their households and communities.Īs discouraging as these realities are, it only brings the work ahead into sharper focus. In Shelby County, where I work with the District’s 200 schools to promote whole child health, 91% of our families are Black, Native American or Hispanic.Īccording to the CDC, Black and Latino adults are two to three more times likely to be hospitalized and die from COVID-19 than white Americans. While the pandemic has touched nearly every part of society, its impact has not been felt equally – especially in Tennessee. Unlike polio, children are less likely to contract COVID-19 and die from it, yet they’ve unmistakably borne the brunt of this pandemic in tragic ways we are only beginning to discover. Pre-COVID, some 56.4 million children attended K-12 school.Īs has been made painfully clear, when children are disconnected from school, the ramifications are serious and widespread - ranging from challenges in mental health, nutrition, learning loss, as well as economic hardship for working families. Our experience with COVID-19 has compellingly reinforced how the classroom is central to the lives of children with schools serving as the cornerstones of our communities. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician at Brown University, told the New York Times. “It would be a horrible irony for us to get through this pandemic and lose children to these preventable diseases,” Dr. In America, an estimated one in five have fallen behind on their shots to prevent diseases such as measles, diphtheria, tetanus, and polio. Hear more Tennessee Voices: Get the weekly opinion newsletter for insightful and thought provoking columns. Here in our state, last week, Department of Health officials halted all adolescent vaccine outreach efforts only days before another study reported that, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, 17 million children worldwide have missed their routine vaccinations. However, promotion efforts to reach herd immunity among adolescents are now being threatened nationwide and stopped completely in Tennessee. And in return, entire regions are protected, thanks to high levels of invulnerability called herd immunity. Since that historic day, millions of children receive their annual polio vaccine, along with other routine immunizations, giving them hope for a life free from deadly, debilitating and preventable diseases. Jonas Salk told silly jokes to keep them calm as, one-by-one, he gently leaned over to personally administer the very first doses of his revolutionary polio vaccine. 'ġ37 children, all under the age of 9, patiently lined up in their gymnasium with their sleeves rolled up.ĭr. Over half a century ago, a groundbreaking event occurred at Arsenal Elementary, a public elementary school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Watch Video: Hospitality workers in New Orleans fight for better wages Now all of a sudden it Only shows up in a totally different state and with exact name search. ![]() Is there something I could do to send signals to Google to show that I am in Matthews, NC?Ģ months ago my listing quit showing up at all unless you typed exact business name What could possibly cause my listing or Google to do this? I have been without my listing for a few months now and have NO calls coming in from it. If you search Locksmith Independence, KS it shows up on the maps. If you search Locksmith Matthews, NC my listing does not show up at all. Keep in mind the GMB is in Matthews, NC All my service areas and the actual map show the correct areas. Now if I search my business name under the auto populate I see it with Independence, KS on the listing. ![]() I pretty much do not have any traffic, views or calls now. Posted about my SAB listing a few weeks ago about not showing up in search only when you entered the exact name. ![]()
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