While viruses like the flu, RSV and COVID can impact people anytime, most people associate these viruses with colder and winter months – and while winter may be loosening its grip – these viruses are not.

Who is most vulnerable to respiratory illnesses?

Immunocompromised people. You qualify as “immunocompromised” if you have an illness that weakens your immune system, such as cancer, an autoimmune disease, or have had an organ transplant. You may also qualify if your immune system works well. but are being treated for another condition suppresses your immune response.

We all know someone who is immunocompromised and for these people, COVID can be deadly.

Approximately 3% of the U.S adult population is considered immunocompromised and are more susceptible to severe outcomes and complications of infectious disease.

The best thing you can do to protect yourself against respiratory infections includes:

Vaccines are the recommended approach

However, vaccines are shown to leave immunocompromised people exposed and need extra protection

Talk to your doctor about a COVID protection approach

Cover your cough or sneeze

On Thursday, February 27th, Dr. Amesh Adalja, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, will be available to discuss the peaking of the respiratory illness season and how everyone can protect themselves. He’ll also discuss protecting immunocompromised people from COVID-19.

Interview is courtesy: Invivyd

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We seek to grow and serve a vibrant, global footwear industry, where doing business in New York is profitable and easy for our membership, and where the industry strengthens through education and unites in charity.

Our mission is to:

Serve and grow the footwear industry by making it easy and fun for buyers and sellers of shoes to do business in New York.
Drive innovation to make the buying and selling of shoes easier.
Strengthen the industry through education.
Unite the industry in charity.
Propel the industry forward.
New York City is the heart of fashion and the center of global business. That’s why we’re dedicated to growing the footwear industry by making it easy to do business in New York. The New York Shoe Expo brings together retailers, brands, designers, buyers and sellers four times a year – all right here in New York City.

Giving back is a huge part of our mission at FFANY. FFANY unites the industry in charity by rallying footwear leaders around important causes including, in particular, breast cancer research.

Growing an industry takes more than just business opportunities. At FFANY, we understand the need to strengthen the industry through education. From scholarships and workshops to e-learning courses, FFANY is paving the way for a new generation for footwear professionals.
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Do you love a well told story? Do you want Story Power?

As you perhaps know, I do and that’s why I perform a one-man show in theatres telling my own story.

Today, I’d like to invite you to experience a great new story, a new one-person show that I’ve  co-written and directed, called “Sex. Love. Seek.”

The world premiere is June 3rd, in Oceanside, CA at the Brooks Theatre.

All 200 seats are already sold out, but I’ve reserved 10 seats for my own personal guests.

Here’s the opportunity for YOU:

If you’d like to join me for the World Premiere – hit me back with an email FAST and as long as there is a seat left, I’ll save you VIP seating reserved for my friends.

Just seeing the show will unleash your own power around YOUR life story.  (Because your life story is gold waiting to be found).

I love the power of story to transform lives and I’m really proud to be a part of this inspiring and transformational new show. It’s been a year and a half in development!

The show is performed by speaker/coach Ted McGrath, – it’s his true personal story of his desperate search for meaning. Sex, Drugs, and Lies, cost him love, family, and any hope for a better future. When faced with life or death — his only hope is Destiny.

Hit me back if you want to attend the show with me. It’s going to be a magical night (And a ton of really incredible people from the world of hollywood, speaking and coaching will be in attendance.)

Warmest regards,

Live MIGHTy,

Patrick Combs

http://www.patrickcombs.com

PS – I coach on Story Power now, and I guarantee you that I can make you a better speaker or improve any story you have – so if you’d like to have a conversation with me about  my powerhouse story/speaker coaching, hit me back with an email.

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