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Administration says that it could not have completed a successful fall semester without Karen Schroeder, RN, health center director and her team

FROM ONU FACEBOOK - The administration of Ohio Northern University says that it could not have completed a successful fall semester without Karen Schroeder, RN, health center director and her team.

For the ONU Health Center staff, keeping students safe is the expectation. And pandemic or not, they know that it always will be.

Faced with an unparalleled increase to her job’s degree of difficulty, Health Center Director Karen Schroeder, RN, set out to learn everything she could about COVID.

Being a new virus, the information available to her changed from day to day as doctors and scientists learned more.

There are concentration camps that are killing Uyghur Muslims

By Amelia Alexander
I remember learning about the horrors of the Holocaust during elementary school. 

Everyone in my class seemed appalled that humans could do such vile things to each other. The systematic killing and torturing of the Jews and other minorities was nauseating to learn about. 

How could 11 million people be senselessly murdered in such a short period of time? Certainly, if we were alive during the Holocaust, we wouldn’t have let this happen for so long, right?  

Worked at Superior Coach for 29 years and 18 years as Allen East transportation supervisor

Harry A. Heise, 85, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, at 6:22 a.m. at his residence, surrounded by his family.

He was born on Nov. 26, 1935, in Athens, Michigan, to the later Edgar and Pearl (Jones) Heise. On Aug. 18, 1962, Harry married Dianna Cordes of Alpena, Michigan, and she survives in LaFayette.

To the 1950 OSU-Michigan snow bowl football game 70 years ago about this time of year

FROM BLUFFTON ICON - There is no Ohio State-Michigan football game this year. So, for Buckeye fans the Icon provides this Bluffton account of the famous 1950 snow bowl game.

The is an abridged version of the story, published in greater detail in "Bluffton Anthology, Essays on a small Ohio town," collected by Fred Steiner. The book is available from the author and in Bluffton downtown businessees. It will soon be available at The Inn at ONU.

Weekend doctor

Dr. Jessica Lafyatis
Blanchard Valley Obstetrics & Gynecology

FDA approves first test to detect neutralizing antibodies from COVID-19

This story provided by Ohio Northern University HealthWise Pharmacy.

(RxWiki News) The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new test that can detect neutralizing antibodies from a past SARS-CoV-2 infection. It's the first test of its kind.

The FDA has granted more than 50 antibody (serology) tests an emergency use authorization (EUA). This newly approved test, called cPass SARS-CoV-2 Neutralization Antibody Detection Kit, was one of them. But this test is different.

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