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• Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine: Interim report claims 90% effectiveness

  Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  COVID-19 is raging. The U.S. continues to see record case totals each day. A vaccine is perhaps the best hope for ending the pandemic. Currently, there is no vaccine to prevent infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), but researchers have been racing to develop one. Now, based on an interim efficacy analysis, Pfizer and BioNTech claim their messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)-based vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants who had not previously been infected with SARS-CoV-2.

• New DC hotel targets powerful women

  Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  #MeToo is not dead, it is sleeping — at a new hotel that hopes to attract the bold and the beautiful, if not the most powerful women on the emerging political landscape. Viceroy Hotels & Resorts is changing the conversation in Washington, D.C., and beyond, with the opening of Hotel Zena, a brash new cultural magnet giving special attention to the accomplishments of women and their enduring struggle for gender equality. It's an interactive venue where every architectural line, material and art installation have been thoughtfully designed and curated to send a message of female empowerment.

• A swag bag for the chief elected officer

  Robert C. Harris Association Management

  After installing the chief elected officer, he or she receives a leadership manual and a briefing. They are somewhat “on their own” to establish their governance style. To encourage and guide the elected president, make up a swag bag. A swag bag is an assortment of items that complement an event or experience. In this example, the executive director is gathering the items that will enhance understanding and support good governance. Here’s what’s in the president’s swag bag.

• Telehealth is changing healthcare — patients are telling us so

  Scott E. Rupp Healthcare Administration

  If 2020 has taught us nothing else, it's that telehealth that is likely here to stay. But why? Convenience is critical to its success, but it can bridge the gap of care between caregivers and patients during the pandemic. It's proving to be a legitimate solution to reaching patients in underserved areas. Telehealth technology is no longer a concept but a tried and mostly trusted solution for care delivery. Since the height of the pandemic, patients' use has fallen, but people still like what it has to offer, and its use seems to be reaching critical mass.

• A new era for Berlin as Brandenburg Airport finally opens

  Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & Automotive

  A mere nine years late and approximately $3.8 billion over budget, Berlin’s new Brandenburg Airport (BER) finally opened on Oct. 31. A muted ceremony, at what is arguably the worst time to open a new airport aimed at handling more flights and passengers than ever before, allowed Germany to at least save face and put the huge debacle of this construction project behind it. Originally planned to open in 2011, the flagship airport project has been plagued by problematic safety measures, insufficient retail space, and fraud as many reasons for delay stacked up.

• US payrolls add 638,000 jobs; unemployment rate drops to 6.9%

  Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  U.S. employers added 638,000 nonfarm jobs in October, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. October’s rate of unemployment fell to 6.9% from September’s 7.9% and August’s 8.4%. The gradual employment improvement is a result of eased COVID-19 restrictions on social movement and resuming of commerce, though the pandemic remains uncontained and prospects for a vaccine available to the public are unclear. "The number of unemployed persons fell by 1.5 million to 11.1 million," according to the BLS. "Both measures have declined for 6 consecutive months but are nearly twice their February levels."

• The beginner’s guide to church websites: 4 steps

  Mark MacDonald Religious Community

  There are many communication channels for your church. You can talk from the stage, in your bulletin, through text or email messaging, on one or all social media channels, and your website. What matters most? That you communicate where most in your congregation have access to — and where your community can discover you. Print can’t do that economically. Your church needs a digital communication hub that’s trusted and known. Everything points there. If your congregation or community wants info, they know they can find it at your web URL address. Here are the initial four steps to creating a successful website.

• Missed diagnosis: Travel amnesia

  Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  Is travel becoming a distant memory? After seven-plus months of lockdown by a global pandemic, an overlooked side effect may not be so obvious as a persistent cough or intermittent fatigue, but it is making its mark none the less: Travel amnesia. Americans are not only missing travel right now, they are struggling to remember what it felt like. But for all that forgetting, Americans say travel is their most frequently recalled happy memory, more than special occasions or personal achievements. In fact, the majority cite creating lasting memories as a primary motive for trips, according to a recent study conducted on behalf of Hilton.

• Handling money while RVing

  Cindy Belt Recreation & Leisure

  No one talks about it much, but handling money is a part of traveling. You need to decide how you want to manage your financial affairs during an extended RV trip. Adjust the hints in this article based on your comfort level with the internet and philosophy on money.

• How common oral and nasal rinses might reduce COVID risk in the dental…

  R.V. Scheide Oral & Dental Healthcare

  The results of two recent peer-reviewed studies that found Listerine and an array of cosmetic and therapeutic mouthwashes kill the novel coronavirus in the laboratory should be approached cautiously. The studies are in vitro, in glass, in the test tube, in the petri dish, and we won’t know if these compounds work on actual living organisms, in this case human beings, until in vivo studies are done. Nevertheless, for dentists, dental hygienists and other dental healthcare providers, there’s plenty to celebrate in the studies, since they both validate some practices already put in place by dental offices when the pandemic took off in the United States last March and point the way forward for future research.

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