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Covid Scam

My doctor’s office called me with some bad news. Although my doctor was able to put me on the waiting list for the Covid-19 vaccine, I was pretty far down on the list.  The best guess was that the soonest I would be able to get the vaccine was in late 2021.  That’s because the …

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The Voice®, the Official Newsletter of SNA – Vol. 14, Issue 14

This issue of The Voice® was written by Special Needs Alliance board member Mary Alice Jackson, Esq., a founding partner of the firm Boyer & Boyer, P.A. in Sarasota, Florida, where she is now of counsel.  She is a graduate of Stetson University College of Law.  Ms. Jackson enjoys assisting individuals and families with special needs trust planning, and counseling …

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An outbreak at a group home and a frantic effort to Clorox wipe the virus away

They’d always checked temperatures inside this house. Twice a day the thermometer was moved from bedroom to bedroom, tucked under five arms, offering five beeps and five numbers, assurances that the women who lived here were, for now, okay. A beep for Andrea Outman, whose oxygen tubes curved around her wheelchair, the only resident of …

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Disability Issues Brief

– A project of the Southeast ADA Center and Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University The ADA and Face Mask Policies Updated: 7/8/2020 Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world in many ways. People with disabilities, people with chronic health conditions such as heart disease, lung disease, and diabetes, and people over the …

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