BERLIN (AP) — Germany has committed millions of dollars in extra funding to help ensure all Holocaust survivors are able to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, an organization that handles claims on behalf of Jewish victims said Wednesday. By virtue of their ages alone, survivors of the Holocaust are at […]
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Millions of COVID-19 survivors have lost senses of smell and taste. Researchers don’t know if they’ll come back
Edelmira Rivera was lying on her bed with her husband and 16-month-old son, selecting a movie when she heard a loud bang outside their home in Waco, Texas. Her sister screamed, “Fire!” “I dropped everything and just grabbed my son and his blanket,” said Rivera, 22. “I could not smell […]
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Millions of COVID-19 survivors have lost the sense of smell and taste. Will they come back? Not even researchers know.
Edelmira Rivera was lying on her bed with her husband and 16-month-old son selecting a movie when she heard a loud bang outside their home in Waco, Texas. Then her sister screamed, “Fire!” “I dropped everything and just grabbed my son and his blanket,” said Rivera, 22. “I could not […]
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Do You Have Financial Survivor’s Guilt?
By Liz Weston Financial therapist Lindsay Bryan-Podvin of Ann Arbor, Michigan, specializes in helping people deal with their anxieties about money. But since the pandemic started, Bryan-Podvin has been hearing more about guilt than fear. Several people who still have jobs and financial security felt guilty about having been spared […]
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Putting financial survivor’s guilt to good use
Financial therapist Lindsay Bryan-Podvin of Ann Arbor, Michigan, specializes in helping people deal with their anxieties about money. But since the pandemic started, Bryan-Podvin has been hearing more about guilt than fear. Several people who still have jobs and financial security felt guilty about having been spared while others suffered, […]
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Trump or Biden? A painful election for survivors of sexual violence.
CLOSE Analysis: “When it comes to choosing a presidential candidate, we constantly have to take the violence that we have experienced and set it aside for the greater good,” says one sociologist. Abigail Culverhouse, 21, was raped in high school. She’s seen here with her dog, Emma, who she adopted […]
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This Worcester beauty studio is on a mission to help breast cancer survivors move forward in recovery with a 3D areola tattoo
At Worcester’s Beauty Avenue Aesthetics, owner Ale Przemielewski and artist Liz Grace have a passion project amplified by the fact that October is breast cancer awareness month. Przemielewski and Grace want to help breast cancer survivors in their recovery. The beauty artists are trained to offer 3D areola tattoos, a […]
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After COVID-19, survivors face stigma
In the three months since Dashauna Ballard of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, recovered from the coronavirus, she has learned to not mention that she was ever sick. Some people give her suspicious looks when they find out she had COVID-19; some assume she got it because she did not take proper hygiene […]