The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new health concerns and new ways of approaching everyday activities, complete with specific terms for these concepts. Everybody wants to stay healthy and help ensure their families and friends do so too, but doing so requires understanding exactly what is expected. To begin the discussion, we have to define three […]
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Stressed by COVID?
Today’s note is for people who are way, way busier because of COVID-19 and for those who are stressed-out by COVID-19. When the girls were much younger and learning to manage their knives, forks and spoons, they sometimes had the dropsies. Sadly, the noise of falling utensils was musical to them, and they repeated the […]
Are We There Yet?
Nope. By no means. No way. No. We are not there yet. When I was a kid, my (large) family drove places in a station wagon. Three people were in the front seat, three in the middle seat, two or three in the rear-facing back seat, and one or two in the tiny space between […]
We Will Get Through This
We will get through this. It’s unsettling. You organize your life for a predictable world of good schools, reliable daycare, spring break or summertime travel plans, dinners with friends, regular paychecks, late afternoons at the gym, planting the tomatoes and basil in mid-April or (if you feel like gambling) in late March. Then COVID-19 upends […]
UHS Employee Update
Employee Health Services is committed to serving our faculty and staff and will continue to operate with normal business hours. We are taking extra precautions based on recommendations from the CDC and Mississippi State Department of Health regarding COVID-19 and have made the following changes to our appointments. In an effort to maximize efficiency and […]
UHS Update
Student Health Services will continue to operate with normal business hours. However, in order to meet the urgent health needs of our students who must return to retrieve essential items Monday, March 16 – Wednesday, March 18, our appointment system will have the following changes: COVID-19 Calls/Concerns For students returning Monday-Wednesday, if you believe you […]