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November 18, 2020 Annual Heart to Heart Fundraiser ERICK RAMBLINGS ©. By Gail Pritchard It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is next week. Hope- fully, we can all take a step back and at least for one day forget By Neva Pyatt, Contributing disability, unimaginable stutter- the Covid-19 pandemic, political drama and everything other writer ing and was teased unmercifully unpleasant issue that 2020 has brought throughout the year With a booming voice, a take- by school mates. But God hada so far and we can just be thankful for what we have actually command stage presence, and plan for Dr. Archer, who gradu- been blessed with. Call me naive, but I for one, think everyone raw emotion, Dr. Ron Archer, a ated in the top of his class and needs a little “Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas” in our best-selling author, business ex- went on to attain his doctorate lives to see what really is important-consideration for oth- ecutive, and world-wide speak- degree where he also graduated ers, love, and most of all family, with a little side of Christmas er, is a spellbinding speaker with top honors. magic thrown in there! We can all use some “feel good” mo- and a force to be reckoned with The impactful message he ments for sure. whenever he takes the stage. shared was that God has a plan ‘This is also the last week of school before Thanksgiving Last Thursday evening was no for each and every one even break which begins on Monday, 11/23. exception as he was the keynote before they are conceived. He Sympathy is extended to the family of Jack Brewster. Jack speaker at the Annual Fundrais- praised the work that the Heart is the brother of Sally Turner of Erick. Services were pending ing event for the Heart to Heart to Heart Pregnancy Clinic is do- at the time of this column’s deadline. Pregnancy Center in Elk City. ing in Elk City and soon to be in Happy Anniversary wishes go out to Ricky & Mona Davis He emphasizes how God can Clinton. Heart to Heart Preg- on 11/22. I don’t show any others for the last part of Novem- use anyone, including someone nancy Clinic is located at 500. S. ber, but if you know of any, feel free to let me know, and we like him, the unwanted child of Lusk in Elk City and they can be can put them in next time. a seventeen-year-old call girl. reached Monday-Thursday from Birthdays to celebrate for this issue (11/18-11/24) will He was born with a number of 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM or by phone be: 11/18-Deirdre Harkins, Melanie May & Matt Brinkley; challenges including a learning at 580-225-4642. 11/19-Ramiro DeLeon, Ora Lee Roberts, Teressa Gipson, Alyssa Bennett & Jeremy Mikles; 11/20-Will Laster, Heidi Brinkley, Breiya Laster & Terry Western; 11/21-Tony Sander- son, Hayley Caruthers & Alicia Babcock; 11/22-Patty Brinkley Why a coronavirus vaccine might not & Betty Davis; 11/23-Leah Harris, Sherry Sanderson & Daniel Johnson; and on 11/24-Sherri Gamble, Levi Greer, Stephanie Gloria & Shannon Nobles. If you enjoy reading this column and would like to help get things back to normal keep it interesting, please call me at 580-243-8923, or mail your news to me at P.O. Box 773, Erick, OK 73645. For your convenience, you can email your items to me at gep2050ehot- By Evan Bush, The Seattle tists are still puzzling over when it protects well and whether it lieve originated in Asia, in which mail.com. Let us know your birthdays, anniversaries, meet- Times it comes to how — or whether provides lasting immunity. people inhaled dried pustules of ings or any other events you would like to have mentioned in — coronavirus vaccines could “Nobody yet has actually seen smallpox to induce mild infec this column. The deadline to turn this column in is noon on SEATTLE — Coronavirus in- achieve herd immunity. the actual published reports tion. the Friday before the new paper comes out on Tuesday for fections are climbing to record ‘The threshold is determined with statistics and numbers,” An enslaved man named On- those of you who have asked me. ‘Thanks to all of you who do highs nationwide. Patients are largely by the virus’s transmis- said Dr. John Dunn, the medi- esimus taken from West Af- contribute as I really appreciate it very much! Have a great filling hospitals in some states. sibility and how long immunity cal director of preventive care rica brought knowledge of the Experts fear we're in for a dark lasts. at Kaiser Permanente Washing- practice to North America and winter. “On average, an infectious ton. If the efficacy data holds up helped quell an outbreak in Bos- A shot of hope could be com- person will infect three people,” ing, as vaccine makers are deep said Luis Barreiro, an associate and protection lasts, Dunn said it would be “marvelous.” ton in 1721. By that century's end, re- ELK CITY in clinical trials. Governments professor in genetic medicine at are stockpiling doses and pre- the University of Chicago. ‘A vaccine using the mRNA platform has never been ap- searchers had developed a small- pox vaccine. The World Health JAIL LOG paring for efficient delivery of ‘And there are signs people proved, and it’s an encouraging Organization declared the dis- David Schneberger, 6/25/65, was arrested on November 11 a vaccine, should one be proven can be infected with coronavi- sign that Pfizer’s vaccine — and ease eradicated in 1980 — a for DUI and transporting an open container. safe and effective. rus more than once. Scientists several others based on the plat public health triumph. Jeremiah Jacob Clark, 6/25/76, was arrested on November But over time, the stiffest are trying to understand more form — could be effective. In the United States, vaccines 6 for fugitive from justice. challenge when it comes to vac- about these cases of re-infec- ‘The FDA has long said it want- have eliminated polio, which Casey Lane Legrande, 9/16/85, was arrested on November cines may not be creating, ap- tion. If someone who's had the ed vaccines to show at least 50% primarily affects children and 7 for DUL. proving or distributing them. It virus is protected from re-infec- efficacy, meaning vaccines that might be getting people to take tion for only a few months, then prevent infection, disease or can cause paralysis, and largely Jeremiah Rex Dennis Schneberger, 5/30/83,w as arrested on November 6 for DUI. them. herd immunity is unreachable. transmission in at least half of eliminated among measles and tetanus, other diseases. Michael Robert Smith, 1/6/69, was arrested for fugitive ‘Americans’ willingness to be “The virus will become, basi- people who receive them. Vaccines inspire both unbri- from justice. vaccinated dropped over the cally, another like flu, another But that represents “a low- summer, with about half of thing we'll have to live with,” end threshold to make sure no dled optimism and skepticism, people polled now saying they'd Barreiro said. one is wasting their time,” said said Emily Harrison, a postdoc- BECKHAM CO. be reluctant, according to recent Some politicians, and a few Dunn. toral fellow in the history of surveys. Vaccinating only half scientists, have called for the Even with an effective vac- epidemiology at Harvard Uni- the population would likely fall U.S. to seek herd immunity cine, the math is daunting, versity. short of stopping transmission without a vaccine — that is, by A90% effective vaccine would “Just as old as the process or JAIL LOG of the virus. simply allowing much of the likely require at least two-thirds technology of vaccination is re- Decisions made now, by sci- population to get infected, on of those susceptible to be vac- sistance or hesitancy of vaccina- November 10 entists and by those in poli the hope that those who recover cinated “to start to see what tion,” Harrison said. Jimmy Brown, 30-year-old male. cal power, could have a lasting would remain immune. Barreiro we think of as herd immunity,” Groups have opposed vaccina- Andrew Gillihan, 30-year-ole male. effect on whether vaccines suc- dismissed that idea, saying it Dunn said, adding that it could tion for religious reasons, over ceed in driving out COVID-19 was “crazy” to allow the virus to require a much higher percent- safety concerns, in reaction to November 11 and other diseases. spread without control. age, even 90%, colonialism and over concerns Richard Silva, 35-year-old male. ‘The US. has set its sights on “There's no strategy,” he said. Gallup polling released in Oc- about medical experimentation herd immunity, a term describ- No vaccine maker has applied tober found that if a free, FDA- and exploitation. November 12 ing when a large enough pro- for emergency use authoriza- approved vaccine were available “Vaccines have often been de- Robert McBrayer, 65-year-old male, released November 13. portion of society is immune tion from the Food and Drug now, only half of Americans ployed by authorities with con- from infection and even those Administration (FDA) — yet. would agree to get it. And a sur- flicting motives,” Harrison said. November 13 without immunity are indirectly During that process, regulators vey from STAT and The Harris In the early 1900s, for exam- Lakota Reyes, 25-year-old male. protected because the virus can- —and the public — will be able Poll found that 58% said they ple, as occupying American sol- not be readily transmitted from to review safety and efficacy diers in the Philippines became would get vaccinated as soon as November 14 person to person. data. a vaccine was available, a sharp sickened with smallpox, the U.S. Kelly Humphreys, 59-year-old male, released November 15. How is “large enough” de- ‘The pharmaceutical company drop since summer polling. ‘Army led a vaccination cam- fined, when it comes to immu- Pfizer indicated in a news re- “The rate at which we vac- paign for the population at the nity to this coronavirus? Epi- lease Monday that its mRNA cinate people is critical,” Dunn same time it routinely tortured demiologists believe it could be vaccine had shown 90% efficacy said. “As the joke goes in medi- Filipinos during interrogations. around 70% of the population, in early data and did not pres- cine: The effectiveness of a vac- A history of medical exploi- but there's little certainty, and ent significant safety concerns. cine that doesn’t go into some- tation and missteps also has it’s a moving target. More data and details are need- one’s arm is zero.” eroded trust among some com- This number, known as the ed to understand the nature Vaccination traces its roots munities of color in the United herd immunity threshold, is of the protection this vaccine to centuries-old inoculation States, said Abigail Echo-Hawk, MARRIAGE LICENSES one of the major factors scien- provides, which populations practices that researchers be- chief research officer for the Se- attle Indian Health Board and a Kory Dunham, Elk City- Morgan Baker, Crowell, TX member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. DIVORCES ‘The USS. Air Force in the 1950s Jackie Lockhart vs Brittany Lockhart Divorce Atty: Seth conducted clinical trials using radioactive isotopes on Alaska Adams Natives, including lactating and possibly pregnant women, with- out informed consent. Stringent ethical standards guide clinical trials today. High-profile technical mis- takes also led to reforms. 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