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DENVER, Colo. – Workers use a lot of masks at Comfort Dental in downtown Denver.“We order about 12 boxes a month and each box has 50 masks in it,” said Dr. Jashon Hughes.Now, Hughes and his staff are experiencing a major shortage with this much needed medical supply, saying this deficit is linked to increased concerns over the novel coronavirus.Following news of the coronavirus spreading, Hughes started seeing companies putting a limit on how many masks he can order.“Usually I can order as many boxes as I wanted,” he said while looking at an online order form. “It says, ‘due to the coronavirus outbreak we are experiencing higher than normal demand globally for infection control products such as masks, goggles and face shields.’” Now, other medical experts are speaking out on this shortage. “I can understand why folks want to wear masks,” said Sheryl Zajdowicz, Ph.D. “However, it’s really a bit of a panic move.”Zajdowicz is a biology professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver and says most times wearing a mask won’t keep people protected.“You may not have any benefit whatsoever,” she said. “Because you may be wearing it long term, getting it saturated and that could possibly make you more susceptible to contracted other things.” The U.S. Surgeon General recently urged the public to stop buying masks and leave them for health workers, tweeting “they are not effective in preventing general public from catching coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”Zajdowicz has also noticed some people trying to make a profit and cash in on this concern with the coronavirus with hand sanitizers selling for several times more than its normal cost.“It seems a bit extreme and just appalling to see that cost,” she said. “ for a typical bottle (for an right-ounce bottle of hand sanitizer).”Zajdowicz says the best defense against the coronavirus is a good ol’ fashioned handwashing – scrubbing your hands with soap and warm water for at least 20 seconds, which is about the time it takes you to sing “Happy Birthday” twice.Back at the dentist's office, Hughes says the super high demand for masks is creating all kinds of challenges.“Coronavirus isn’t the only thing hoping to protect from,” he said. “We’ve got the flu, colds, stuff like that.”He added if the concerns continue to grow and supplies continue to shrink, they may have to take drastic measures to stay safe“Long term if this thing blows up then, yeah, you could see offices not opening here and there if it did spread and get worse,” he said. 2625

Creating vape juice, the liquid inside e-cigarettes, is a complicated process, that someone like George Cassels-Smith can talk for hours about. Cassels-Smith’s knowledge of e-juice and the electronic tobacco business stems from his family’s long history in traditional tobacco. In the early 1900s, his great grandfather ran a company around flavoring cigarettes. His father took the business over and eventually, it fell into his hands after his father passed. “I lost my father due to cigarettes,” said Cassels-Smith. “He was a lifetime smoker. He had three heart attacks and two strokes and cancer twice, and that’s why I entered into manufacturing e-juice.”The family business is now eLiquidTech, located outside Maryland. “I’d like to try and help people with their nicotine dependence with a safer alternative,” he said.When it comes to the safety of vaping, the Centers for Disease Control says almost 1,500 people around the country with a reported a history of vaping have been hospitalized with acute lung illnesses. More than two dozen people have died from it. “For the last 10 years, there have been relatively no health risk associated with it or very low,” said Cassels-Smith. “Now, all of a sudden, people are dropping like flies. What has been new that’s been introduced?”The CDC is still trying to figure that out. However, that question bothered George Cassels-Smith so much, he decided to test every product eLiquidTech makes. The test revealed, “that we were not introducing a biological problem to the agents that we compound.”Weeks of talking with other vaping manufacturers and industry insiders has left Cassels-Smith believing the cause of the outbreak may stem from black-market products or people introducing additional substances to legally manufactured vaping products. His strongest suggested culprit is THC. “I have a hypothesis that it is cannabis related,” Cassels-Smith said. “Those are oil-based products for delivering big aerosol, as opposed to PG glycerin-based, which is for making nicotine products.”Around 78 percent of the people who have come down with vaping related illness, or who have died, have reported using THC liquids in their e-cigarettes. However, the CDC has not definitively pointed to that being the cause of this outbreak. The CDC’s current statement on the cause of the rash of recent lung illnesses and deaths is, “At this time, FDA and CDC have not identified the cause or causes of the lung injuries in these cases, and the only commonality among all cases is that patients report the use of e-cigarette, or vaping, products.”“I would ask the CDC and the FDA to carefully look at the delineation into scrutinize what these elements are associated with,” said Cassels-Smith. “We need to do more effort to find out what is exactly doing this.” Answers would help eLiquidTech’s business, which typically it produces 80,000 to 100,000 kilos of vape juice. But this month, it is only projected to produce 10,000. Answers would also help George-Cassel Smith’s conscience. “With people dying, I need answers. I need to sleep well at night,” he said. “I am doing everything I can to make sure I am not part of the problem.”But most importantly, answer would help families, losing love ones around the country from vaping related illnesses. 3305

DETROIT, Mich. – General Motors made about 930 temporary workers permanent, full-time employees at 30 of its 52 facilities represented by the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union, the 197

Evan Stratton, and his three other crew members, set sail Thursday to row across the Atlantic Ocean -- all 3,000 miles of it.“We didn’t know each other seven months ago,” John Fannin, one of the crew members, said. All four of the men are U.S. Veterans.“More people have been and climbed Mount Everest and been in space than they’ve ever rowed an ocean,” Stratton said about the trans-Atlantic ocean row. They work in shifts, three hours rowing and three hours sleeping non-stop or days.“We’re shooting for 40 [days] but really just trying to get there in one piece,” Stratton said.This is all part of the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge, an annual ocean rowing race that starts in the Canary Islands off of the Spanish coast and finishes in Antigua near Puerto Rico. The journey takes at least a month.And this year, the four-man “Fight Oar Die” rowing crew is the only American team to attempt it. This is also the second time in its history an all-Veteran team has attempted it.“They won’t say it because they’re too humble but I’ll brag on them,” Fannin said. “Luke and Evan will be the first U.S. veteran combat wounded to do it.”It’s a physical feat, but one of mental endurance as well.“We’ll be periodically checking in with the rowers throughout,” Shelly Smith-Acu?a, Dean of the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at Denver University, said. Researchers at the school helped the rowers prepare mentally, and are studying them and their journey to better understand resilience.“They’re doing this, again to spread a message about strength and resilience, recovery, and again about facing adversity,” Smith-Acuna said.“We all want to be challenged, we all want to do something great with our lives,” Fannin said.“I think it’s amazing for veterans to go out and showcase what their abilities are,” Amanda Steele, a Veteran Affairs Office Recreation Therapy Supervisor, said. “Overcome that external stigma but also that internal stigma that our veterans face, such as the belief that they’re not able to be successful.”While the four veterans take off on this challenge as part of the rowing team for the nonprofit organization Fight Oar Die, they are also raising awareness for veteran mental health issues.“One of the things in common in the mission is to raise awareness about mental health issues and mental wellness in the veteran community,” Smith-Acuna said. 2396

Christopher Columbus changed the world by connecting Europe to the Americas. He is also accused of committing brutal acts against indigenous people. So on Columbus Day, one teacher wore a t-shirt that read “Columbus was a murderer.”“I wanted to wear this shirt to spark discussion,” said Emma Howland-Bolton. She says she wanted to have a conversation with her fifth-grade students at Clipper Multicultural Magnet Honors Academy in the Detroit Public Schools Community District, about how there are different perspectives. But instead, a school administrator asked her to take off the shirt. She soon feared she would be disciplined.“I was informed that my shirt was my opinion and I countered with it is a fact,” Howland-Bolton said. 747

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