 Major sponsors for Abel Denonair include Green Mountain Support Services of Vermont, Washington County Mental Health, Al-A'Israel. Food sponsors for Abel Denonair include Geffen Foods Israel, Osem Foods Israel. Major media sponsors for Abel Denonair include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, www.thisisthebronx.info, Associated Press Media Editors, U.S. Press Court, Domestic and International. Anchor F.L. and Spotify. Hello and welcome to this edition of Abel Denonair, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns and achievements of the differently abled. I'm your host, Lawrence Seiler. And for several years, we've been doing Abel Denonair in Vermont and beyond. We would like to thank our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, and many, many, many others. And happy new year. We are in 2021. And on this show today, we will focus on the Centers for Disease Control, Prevention and COVID-19 updates. And many health updates on this show today. For this half an hour we have with you and our, you know, have with our viewers. I would like to point out that, that you can go to www.cdc.gov. We're going to put that a website up during the show. That's www.cdc.gov, which is Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And there's a website where you can it says, Your Health and People with Disabilities. This is actually dated September 11th, 2020. But, you know, information doesn't really change too much. But we're going to give updates as they come forth in several shows. On the, on the right side, actually I should say on the left side of the screen, I'm going to point the website. So on the left side, on the left side of the screen, there's a menu here. And actually we can pop up the website as we're talking to you. Basically, you know, things you need to know, symptoms of COVID-19 in terms of the menu, testing, vaccines, how it spreads, prevent getting sick if you are sick or not feeling well. Older it says, and there's a heading that it says, People at Increased Risk. So let's go over that. That's really important. People that are increased risk for severe illness, people that are most likely than others to become severely ill. So if you are an older adult in Vermont or any other state that is watching this, let's go over this. This is extremely important. So if you are at risk for severe illness with COVID-19 and other underlying conditions, pneumonia, colds, severe fever, chills, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, et cetera, et cetera, you can get the COVID-19 germ inside you and you can get severely sick. So people that are with severe illness with COVID-19 increases the age with older adults at higher risk. Certain medical conditions can also increase risk for severe illnesses. People at increased risk and those who live or visit with them, people that live in nursing facilities, nursing homes, et cetera, must take precautions to protect themselves from getting COVID-19. So increased risk of hospitalization or death. That's more important than anything else. So I'm going to go over that. For example, COVID-19 increases with age and hope in adults with higher risk. I know I'm repeating myself, but for example, people in their 50s and 60s are at a higher risk of severe illness than people in their 40s. Similarly, people in their 60s and 70s are at a general higher risk for illnesses than people in their 50s. The greater risk and severe illness from COVID is people among that are 85 or older. Severe illness may include hospitalization, intensive care, or people that are on ventilator that helps them breathe or they may even pass away. It says here die, but pass away is a better way of saying it. The risk of illness COVID, let's see, CDC has information for older adults at higher risk. 8 out of 10 COVID deaths reported in the US have been adults 65 or older. Please visit the CDC dot gov slash coronavirus or actually backslash coronavirus for steps to reduce your risk. Please visit this website. This is extremely important. Now, I'm going to go over something that... So 18 to 29 years old is the comparison group. 30 to 39 years old is two times higher and deaths is four times higher. 40 to 49 is three times higher and hospitalization is three times higher and death is 10 times higher. 50 to 64 is four times higher hospitalization, 4X, which is four times. And 30 times higher increased death, 60 to 74 is five times higher hospitalization and 90 times higher increased death. 70 to 84 years old, 75 to 84 years old is eight times higher hospitalization rate and 220 times higher in terms of death. And it keeps increasing because of age. So the older you are, the more... The more central you are. Exactly. Exactly. And it says the last thing. Now, other factors and precautions, according to this website that we need to talk about, which I don't like talking about, COVID-19 can hit racial and ethnic minority groups. Pregnancy, it can affect pregnancy and breastfeeding. It can affect people with disabilities. It can affect developmental and behavioral disorders. It can affect, if you do drug use or substance abuse, it can affect you from passing away more profusely because you're doing drugs. Alcohol. Yeah, exactly. Now, here's a way of coping. Now, this is important in terms of coping with COVID-19. Adults experiencing stress from COVID-19. Let's go into veterans, support for veterans. Veterans are important, they're part of our country. Veterans may experience worry or anxiety for contracting COVID-19 about their ability of getting the recommended care. Fear or concern about the impact of COVID-19 on physical health. Hold on, let me go here, so I have to follow along here. Physical health and daily life may contribute to the onset or worsen existing or mental health problems. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic may increase stress for many service members or people that were in the service. And veterans making an already challenging transition from military to civilian life because of access to resources may be limited. To learn more about the Veterans Administration response to COVID, let's click here and go to the Veterans Administration response to COVID. OK, so it brings us to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Their website is for more information on coronavirus with veterans, you can go to www.publichealth.va.gov. That website is www.publichealth. That's P-U-B-L-I-C-Health.va.gov. One more time, www.publichealth.va.gov. So here it says, what is the VA doing in terms of public health and coronavirus? The VA has implemented an aggressive public health response to protect and care for veterans and their families. Healthcare providers and staff in the face of this emerging health crisis, they are working directly with the CDC and other federal partners to monitor the outbreak of the virus. Now, on their website, it talks about military exposures to the coronavirus. It talks about more about the COVID-19 virus. We can click there. So additional information says the VA is ready for the coronavirus and is working to protect you and your family. So you can just click there and go there. So the VA is taking aggressive steps to prevent COVID-19 transition. These measures include outreach to veterans and staff, clinical screens at VA's, health care facilities, and protective procedures. OK. So there's a lot of things that is going on. And you want to say? I want to say something. I just want to say something. Your father was a VA, you know. Oh, my father, huh? Can you get the vaccine faster? No, probably not. I can check that out. But I have to say something else. Back at CDC.gov, it says you must wear a mask, stay six feet apart, and avoid, we must avoid crowds. Anything else you want to say about? OK. Mm-hmm. I would say that you've actually been available to us soon, because you know. No, as far as that, according to Dale, the, Matt, let's go to their website. We can talk about it a little bit. It's almost done. Yeah, well, they're giving the, OK, so the novel, so the, it says here, disabilities are aging and independent living, according to Dale. We can go to www.dale.vermont.gov. That's D-A-I-L.vermont.gov. According, and Monica Hutt was on the show before Abledon on air. So, novel coronavirus information. The Vermont Department of Health is closely monitoring the rapid development of the outbreak of the coronavirus. For the latest information, guidance, questions, and answers, and daily updates, please visit the Vermont Department of Health's website. And so let's go there. Vermont Department of Health. What you need to know, according to the Vermont Department of Health, COVID-19, what you need to know prevention it says the holidays are over and we are, we return to the protocol that you may not gather with anyone that you don't live with. Please check for prevention tips. OK. There are things, according to the Department of Health in Vermont, there are things you can do to protect yourselves around people around us from spreading COVID-19, wondering what you can do to stay healthy and how you can approach the holidays or any holidays. People that are high risk. Let's go over this here. People in Vermont, people with high risk, it says find out who may be more at risk for severe illness or more vulnerable with getting sick. Learn about the protections. So if we want information, so let's go to the vaccine. Let's find out when Vermont is. It says if you want information about the vaccine, click here. So I guess we're going to be getting the vaccine soon. It does not say. Let me see. Read more. Yeah, I'm looking here. Oh, yes. Um, it will take a while for us to get the COVID for it will take a while for Vermont to get the COVID vaccine. But knowing that more than 14,000 Vermonters have already vaccinated so far so we can feel change, according to Dr. LaVie, but it does not say when we are getting it. Um, I guess if you want more information on when we're getting the vaccination, you can go to www.HealthBermont.gov. Um, no, it only says for those who really want to know our viewers, it only says that Vermont has already vaccinated 14,000 people. So I guess we are going to be waiting a little while longer until we can get the vaccine. People that are in long term care facilities are holding vaccination clinics. But if you do not live in a long term care facility, we're going to just have to wait. I know everybody out there is a little bit antsy to when we can get stuff. But don't worry, things will move along pretty shortly. I know that New York this month is going to be holding out more vaccinations and other big states, LA, New York, and others. But Vermont, Vermonters will just have to wait. I know people don't want to wait and people are getting scared about waiting. But don't worry, things will have its way of working itself out. Um, just contact the Department of Health or the Department of Independent Living Disabilities and Independent Living if you have any questions. By going to their website. Um, anything else you want to say? Yeah, I know people are skeptical. But sometimes waiting, um, as they say, good things come to those who wait. But don't worry, we're going to have the vaccine soon enough, according to Dr. Levine and the Department of Health. Um, when COVID-19 vaccine, according to what? A subway station. Yeah, according to New York and other big cities, there's a lot of due to coronavirus. Well, one thing I do want to say in terms of COVID-19, when schools are closed and people just don't know what to do with themselves, they're causing havoc. We need to stop this. We need to stop the violence. We need to come together and work things out. Why is there more violence in New York and other big cities due to COVID? Because schools aren't open, centers aren't open, people can't get services. So people just don't know what to do with themselves. So please, please, please, if we can work together to stop the violence, punching people in the face and subway stations and all of that isn't going to solve anything. We need to come together and just relax. If you have a problem in terms of Vermont and you want to contact Washington County Mental Health, if you have a mental health issue, please go to www.wcmhs.org. That is www.wcmhs.org. We must stop the violence and not do anything to hurt anybody else at this time. There is no need for subway violence. There's no need for destroying somebody's home. There's no need for that. We need to come together to be a better people again. And now that we have a better administration in about 15 days, things should somewhat... I'm not going to say normal, because as a matter of fact, I'm going to go over this one fact that's really important. In 2000, let me look it up. How? Whoops. In 2020. So alone in 2020, COVID deaths in 2020, the deadliest year in U.S. history. So around the world, more than 3 million people died in 2020 from COVID-19 alone. The deadliest year in history. If you want more information on this, you can go to www.usa-today.com, which is their website. So USA Today newspaper, you can go... So 3 million people in 2020 died from COVID in the U.S. alone. We need to come together and stop the violence and really backtrack in terms of helping our neighbors. And with that said, we would like to say thank you for joining us on this edition of Ableton on Air. I'm Lauren Seiler. I'm Lauren Seiler. See you next time. Contact the Department of Health if you have any issues. Thank you to our sponsors. And see you next time. I'm Lauren Seiler. Major sponsors for Ableton on Air include Green Mountain Support Services of Vermont, Washington County Mental Health, Al-Israel. Food sponsors for Ableton on Air include Geffen Foods Israel, Osam Foods Israel. Major media sponsors for Ableton on Air include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, www.thisisthebronx.info, Associated Press Media Editors, U.S. Press Court, Domestic and International. Anchor FL and Spotify.