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Welcome to this edition of Ableton On Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the definitely able. I've always been your host, Lauren Seiler. Okay. And this edition of Ableton On Air, and this is also a podcast with Spotify and Anchor FM able to speak up. On this edition of Ableton On Air and able to speak up, we are talking about the COVID update with Vermont. Before we get started, let's deal with our sponsors. Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountains Support Services, Muslim Media Corporation, and many others, including support from, you know, including supporters such as the Vermont Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Yachad New York and New England, and the Orthodox Union, and many others, also including Anchor FM and Spotify. On this edition, we talk about the Vermont COVID vaccinations, and COVID as a whole, and COVID update. Basically, Vermont leads, as of June 14, 80% of eligible Vermonters have been vaccinated, allowing the governor, our governor, Phil Scott, to lift restrictions. Vermont forward percentages draw on state level data from the CVC, which includes some data not reporting to Vermont as the Vermont Department of Health CDC data is more inclusive, but detailed. If you want more information on this information, you can go to www.healthvermont.gov.covid19. So that website again is www.healthvermont.gov forward slash COVID-19 vaccine and COVID-19 vaccine dashboard. Vermont forward percentages draw on the state level, which according to the CDC, some data is not reported. This data is subject to change in terms of things. Now, vaccination by county age 12 plus, okay. Addison 83.3%. I mean, excuse me, 80.3%. These are people that have been vaccinated. Barrington is 76.7. Caledonia is 68.6. And we can have a part of this website on Ableton on there. Chittenden County, which is where Burlington is, 83.5%. Essex, 57.4%. Franklin, 71.6%. Grand Isle, 82.8%. LaMoyle, 83.9%. Orange, 71.7%. Washington County, which where we are in Montpellier, 82.2%. Wyndham, 73.9%. Windsor, 74.1%. Orleans is 68.0%. Orange, 71.7%. Etc. Now, doses received vaccine distribution, 910.1,000 doses administered, 821,000.8,000. For total people started vaccinating, 42.8, and then 407.6, total people completed the vaccinations. Now, there are still around 30% of the world that hasn't been vaccinated. Please, we are telling you to become vaccinated. Although religious wise, there are some people that don't want the vaccinations or can't get the vaccinations really. If you are severely challenged, severely disabled, if you have really bad epilepsy or something and you really can't get the vaccine, then you have to wear a mask. For more information on this information, you can go to COVID-19 vaccination registration, and the number is for Vermont 855-722-7878. That's 855-722-7878. If you have any questions on COVID-19, 802-863-7240. That number again is 863-7240. Toe-free, the toll-free number is 833-722-0860. Now, if you are deaf and hard of hearing, you can dial 711 on your device and they can tell you the information, or you can also dial Vermont 211, which is sponsored by the United Way. Now, there's other information on this website. Let's go back. This is, anything you want to say about COVID-19? Yes, 16 and up. Now, there's a difference for those that don't know and that are confused. There's a huge difference between Governor Scott, which is the state of Vermont, and the CDC, which is federal. Now, when I went on the bus this morning, GMTA bus to get here to our, to Orca Studios, the bus driver did tell me that we still need a mask. It's a federal mandate. Governor Scott is federal. So, if you're going into a federal building, post office, beginning on a bus, you must wear a mask. If you're going into a hospital, you must wear a mask. It depends on your situation. Do not argue with a bus driver. Do not argue with a, or have a disagreement with a post employee. Otherwise, you won't receive service or get on a bus. Now, you have to go somewhere and you need to get on a bus. You have to wear a mask. Yes, yes. Now, according to this website, there's, there's, yes, yes. Now, there's other information available out there. Now, according to the data resources, if you're BIPC, with BIPOC, which is Black, African American, Native American, Indigenous, or Indigenous or First Nation Pacific Islander Asian, or two or more races in Hispanic, contact the Department of Health and they'll give you more information on the vaccine and when you can go get it. This website here, which is at www.healthvermont.gov, is, it goes by age and ethnicity and, you know, certain things. It shouldn't, but it does. That's the way this website is configured. Now, according to, here we go. Now, this is really extremely important for people to know about vaccinations. Vaccinations for people with disabilities and also regular people, but, you know, everybody has a challenge. Vaccinations really help people with disabilities and other people from risk of disease, especially infants. If you are scared getting a vaccination, then take someone with you. Infants who, they haven't done infants yet or they, they haven't done small children. Infants who are too young to be vaccinated and children and adults who are immune, systems are weaker. Vermont's immunization program works with families, healthcare providers and communities partners to make sure children and adults are protected against vaccines to help with increasingly immunization coverage. Congratulations to the 25 primary care practices with high immunization coverage in 2018. 2018, 19 and 20. Now, if you want more information on the Vermont Immunization Program and COVID-19, you can contact the following number, 802-863-7240. That's 863-7240. Also, well, now, since it's summer, I know this has nothing to do with COVID-19, but mosquito-borne diseases are upon us. This is summertime and you have little creepy crawly friends with wings, so we must protect against them. Mosquito season in Vermont begins in the spring and summer, but does not typically pose a health risk until the summer months. By July, which is soon, some mosquitoes may be carrying viruses and cause diseases such as West Nile, the West Nile infection and Eastern E.Q.E. encephalitis. The Health Department of Vermont Vector-Borne Disease Program is responsible for tracking and responding to mosquito-borne diseases. They investigate reported cases of the disease and collect and analyze data to detect trends in disease activity, collaborate with other states, agencies and work to educate Vermonters about prevention. Mosquitoes from around the state are collected and tested for evidence of West Nile virus and other diseases. The Department tracks this. The best way to avoid mosquito-borne diseases and prevent mosquito bites to Hope Department this summer recommends wearing long-sleeved shirts along pants when outside. Limited time outdoors between dawn and dusk when the mosquitoes are most active and use insect repellent that has been proven safe against mosquitoes like off or something like that. Mosquitoes in Vermont, the Health Department summarizes mosquito testing results before the human animal illnesses every week during the summer and every fall. It compiles data each year in SF analyst report. So for more information on that, you can go to this website. Now along the sidebar of this website, there's things like food and wet waterborne diseases. Let's go to that. Diseases can spread also especially during coronavirus through contaminated food and water and can have significant effect on the health of communities. These diseases are often serious and can be life-threatening and regularly can make people sick in outbreaks. Some of these diseases can be spread from person to person and from animals to people. On another show, I'm going to give information on what to give your, like if you have a seeing eye dog, or what not to give dogs or cats for food that's also can cause disease. The foodborne and wet and waterborne disease program of the Vermont Department of Health is responsible for tracking and investigating outbreaks and preventing the spread of diseases. These or parts of these efforts in this program is collaborating with other parts of Vermont State Government and other state departments and federal health partners. Now, I'm going to go through, anything you want to say before I continue? I'm going to talk about the foodborne diseases, especially during COVID, you got to cook your chicken and cook your beef and cook things. If you have disabilities or pre-existing conditions, it's very important for you to cook your food during the summer, especially during COVID. In this section of the website, again at www.helpformant.gov, it's www.helpformant.gov forward slash disease, gas control, food and water. In this section of this website, there's things like botulism and you can read more about that. There is cryptoliosis, there's listeria and E. coli and noroviruses. A norovirus, if you don't cook your food properly, is highly contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea. You can get shingles and fibrosis and other things. Years ago, there used to be something and it still is called trichinosis, means if you cook pork, or pork chops or ham or anything and you eat it raw without cooking it, you can get something called trichinosis, which causes worms in your stomach. Anyone want to say about that? For those that want to know more about food and waterborne diseases, we'll be doing a section on able to cook about that and you can go to www.orkamedia.net for able to cook, which we'll be back soon. That's also sponsored by Washington County Mental Health. Along this sidebar of this website, there's other diseases. There's something I've never heard before. Oh, here we go. Zoonotic diseases. Zoonotic diseases are illnesses that are spread from animals to humans and that can be passed through direct contact of the infected animal or contact areas where animals live. Wildlife, livestock and even parks spread of the zoonotic diseases to people. Now, speaking about that, I know we have 8 minutes left, but we might go a little over, talking about disease. Now, on able to speak up on the podcast, I spoke about Lewis Pastore. But Lewis Pastore, talking about disease, he came up with the rabies vaccine and he came up with the cholera vaccine and he was in charge of, he was a chemist and microbiologist, renowned and we can show a picture of Lewis Pastore. He was renowned for his discoveries and principles in vaccination, microbiobiobio, sorry, infirmation, pasteurized milk, pasteurized cheese. His research in chemistry led to the remarkable breakthroughs in the understanding of the causes and preventions of diseases. So, you know, and he was born December 27th, 1822 and died September 28th, 1895. So, without Lewis Pastore and without also, and we'll have a picture of Jonas Salk, without Jonas Salk, you wouldn't have the polio vaccine. I think that was part of it. Yeah, the polio vaccine, let me see. Wait, okay. Jonas Salk was born, now we have a picture of him. Jonas Salk was born April 28th, 1914 and died on June 23rd, 1995. Yeah, he was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and the New York School of Medicine, NYU, New York University School of Medicine. Salk, in 1947, Salk, S-A-L-K, accepted a professorship in the School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh. It was there that he undertook a project and determined the number of different types of polio viruses starting in 1948. And for the next seven years, Salk himself devoted himself towards developing a vaccine against polio. Salk was immediately hailed a miracle worker and the vaccine success was made public in April of 1955. So by 1959, Salk's vaccine had reached about 90 countries and he made up a oral vaccine which was good too. So without Louis Pasteur and Jonas Salk, you would not have what you have today and it's extremely important to realize that when you get a vaccine, it saves your life. So we are asking us at Ableton on Air, we are asking for monitors to please those that are not coronavirus vaccine yet. Please, please, it will save your life, especially now that the variants might be here for a while. So it's better to be protected by a vaccine and it's 90% effective. Please, we are selling- We have time to look that up. The TB vaccine, the vaccine known as Baculis, I can't pronounce it, Baculis Camillat-Guren or BCG was developed between 1908 and 1921 and is administered in more of 100 million children around the world every year. Okay, Robert Koch, you mean Robert K-O-C-H? Yeah, this is him. Robert Herman Koch died in 1910 as a German physician and microbiologist and discover of specific agents and deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax and he helped Louis Pasteur and he was the father of bacteriology. His discovery of the anthrax bacterium or Bacilis anthralis in 1876 was considered the birth of modern bacteriology. Here's the last thing before we end the show, his discoveries directly provided proofs and germ theory of diseases and the scientific basis of public health. So with that said, please get your vaccinations. It's extremely important. Without them we would not exist or we would be sicker than most and especially people with disabilities who have pre-existing conditions is extremely important for everybody to be vaccinated. So with that said, we would like to thank, we're going to go a little over but that's okay, we would like to thank our sponsors Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, Muslim Media Corporation and many others including the help of the Vermont Division for the Blind, Visually Impaired, Yakhad, New York and New England and the Alphandarx Union and the podcast Able to Speak Up is on Anchor FM and Spotify and please tune in to this important edition of Able to Speak Up and Able then On Air. This puts an end to this edition of Able then On Air. Please go get your vaccination. I'm Lauren Seiler, see you next time. Able then On Air is sponsored by Green Mountain Support Services, empowering people with disabilities to be home in the community. Washington County Mental Health where hope and support comes together. Media sponsors for Able then On Air include Parkchester Times, Muslim Community Report, WWW, this is the Bronx dot info, Associated Press Media Editors, New York Parrot Online Newspaper, US Press Corps, Domestic and International, Anchor FM and Spotify. Partners with Able then On Air include Yakhad, New York and New England, where everyone belongs, the Alphandarx Union and the Vermont Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Able then On Air has been seen in the following publications, Parkchester Times, New York Parrot Online Newspaper, Muslim Community Report, WWW, this is the Bronx dot info and www.h.com. Able then On Air is a member of the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences Boston, New England Chapter