May is Bike Helmet Safety Awareness Month. Nearly 10,000 bicycle helmets will be going to children across Ohio this spring thanks to the Put A Lid On It! campaign, a continued partnership between the Ohio Department of Transportation and the American Academy of Pediatrics--Ohio Chapter.
Partners from nearly 160 law enforcement agencies and community organizations, Safe Routes to School programs, and Safe Communities programs traveled to Columbus to pick up their allotment of helmets.
Hardin County native Jessica Weyer-Bentley has published her second book of poetry, Down Below Where the Canary Sings. Issued on May 2, 2023, the colletion was published by Sage Owl Publishing in Massachusetts.
Weyer-Bentley is an author, poet and photographer. Her first collection of poetry, Crimson Sunshine, was published in May 2020 by AlyBlue Media.
By Karen Kier, Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team
The idiom to catch up means to reach a standard or to move faster in order to reach someone or something moving in the same direction. This idiom can mean anything from a competition of catching someone who maybe running a race or it can mean a meeting with a friend to catch up on the latest news.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on April 24 “The Big Catch-Up” program to coincide with World Immunization Week. This new campaign is driven by the decrease in pediatric vaccines prior to and during COVID-19. Routine childhood vaccines declined in over 100 countries during the pandemic. This is the largest sustained decline in 30 years.
The CDC reports a decline in pediatric immunizations during COVID-19 in the United States. The start of the 2022 school year had the lowest vaccine rates for kindergarten children at 93%. Experts believe the disruption of routine physician visits and the misinformation about vaccines contributed to the falling numbers.
