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Approved: Saliva-cased COVID-19 test

FDA approves Yale's new saliva-based COVID-19 test
Posted by Fred Steiner on September 5, 2020 - 6:43am

This column is provided by the ONU HealthWise Pharmacy.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a saliva test for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 infection.

This approval was granted to the Yale School of Public Health for its SalivaDirect COVID-19 diagnostic test.

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Health Services
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Weekend doctor: Protecting yourself

From sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on September 5, 2020 - 6:00am

By Malary McBride, APRN-CNP
Certifed Nurse Practitioner
Blanchard Valley Obstetrics & Gynecology
September is Sexual Health Awareness Month. 

Did you know that one in two sexually active persons will contract a sexually transmitted infection (STI) by age 25? However, this is not the only age group affected by STIs. STIs affect people of all ages and backgrounds. 

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Blanchard Valley Health System
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Need a place to park your bike on Main Street? No problem

Bike racks in four downtown locations will handle 17 bikes
Posted by Fred Steiner on September 4, 2020 - 3:17pm

As Bluffton becomes a more friendly bicycle village, more incentives become available to encourage bike use here.

The most recent is the creation of 17 bicycle parking spaces to be installed this fall along the Main Street business district.

The bike racks come as a result of a $5,000 grant from the Allen County Health Department’s "Creating Healthy Communities.”

Those 17 parking spaces are planned for:
• Town hall (3 spaces)
• Presbyterian alley (4)
• Edward Jones alley on North Main (5)
• Book ReViews alley (5)

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Regional news
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BHS boys' ranked first in NWOSSCA poll

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 4, 2020 - 1:59pm

Bluffton High School boys' soccer team is ranked number 1 in the first Northwest Ohio Scholastic Soccer Coaches Association poll of the season for Division III schools. To view each of division rankings scroll to the bottom of this story.

 

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Sports
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Finishing touches

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 4, 2020 - 1:45pm

Finishing touches are underway on the new Bluffton pathway today. Concrete installation took place in two sections of the path to complete construction. Work occurred just off Richland Drive and at Magnolia Lane. (Dick Ramseyer photos)

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The economic impact of COVID-19

“There is some evidence from the 1918 pandemic that the places that had more efforts to shut down controlled the virus better. They also recovered from an economic standpoint more rapidly.”
Posted by Fred Steiner on September 4, 2020 - 1:04pm

Dr. Jonathan Andreas, Howard Raid professor of business and professor of economics, provided insight into the economic collapse and emerging, yet still uncertain, rebound of the last six months during Bluffton University’s first Colloquium presentation of the year titled, “The Economics of COVID.”

Using unemployment data, polls from economists and graphs charting changes in GDP, Andreas wove together a picture of a recession that evolved more quickly than one ever experienced in the United States. 

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Bluffton University
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