COVID-19 – The Kayseean

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Biden Withdraws the Vaccine Mandate: What it Means for King

As of Tuesday, January 25th, the Biden Administration formally withdrew the vaccine mandate for private businesses. The vaccination mandate was originally proposed last November, as a part of President Biden’s Covid-19 action plan, Path Out of the Pandemic. It was to be put into effect on January 4th and executed by the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

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Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion is an annual music festival celebrating Bristol’s country music heritage stemming from the 1927 Bristol Sessions, the origin of country music. This year marked the festival’s 20th anniversary of bringing together a wide range of music lovers to enjoy genres from Americana to Bluegrass to Indie and Folk and everything in between.

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Alternative Ways To Get Your Cross-Cultural Experience Credit

The Coronavirus pandemic has effectively barred international travel for the past year and has kept King University students from one way of fulfilling their Cross-Cultural Experience requirements. A fundamental principle in King’s curriculum is expanding students’ worldviews and interactions with other cultures are vital. And while Covid certainly won’t last forever, the option to travel to foreign countries for weeks or even months at a time is not always accessible to every student. But upcoming graduates have nothing to fear, King has alternative approaches to fulfilling the cross-cultural requirement. Let’s explore some.

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Hope On The Horizon: COVID-19 Vaccines

By Laura Ong, PhD, Guest Author Nearly a year has passed since our community at King University was turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. While face coverings, physical distancing and other…

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Good Acts At King University

Sometimes amongst the chaos of life (and the Covid pandemic), you must be willing to seek out the good that is happening under our noses. One such case here on King’s campus is by Alaska Vance, Chair in the Department of Theater, and her quarantine care packages.

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Perspective: Hindsight Is 1920

Americans take interest in their history during times of great desperation. Commentators have noted that the 2020 race eerily resembles that of a century before, the 1920 contest pitting Democrat James Cox against Republican Warren G. Harding. Being a stolid Midwesterner, Cox has all but been forgotten. No such luck for Harding, who regularly vies with Andrew Johnson for “worst president” in most historical polls. Consoling the anxieties of the American populace, his brilliant campaign in 1920 resulted in landslide victory. Harding only lacked for substance as actual president.

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Pandemics: Past, Present, and Future

The Spanish flu was the deadliest pandemic in modern history. More than 675,000 Americans lost their lives due to the flu epidemic from 1918 to 1920, many more than the number of Americans who had died in World War I. Currently, the COVID-19 epidemic has been ravaging the US since February of 2020. To find out more about what we can learn about the current pandemic from the previous one, I sat down with Dr. Robin Feierabend, a retired physician specializing in family medicine, who was formerly with the Quillen College of Medicine at ETSU. The discussion yielded three important takeaways…

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Summit Supercomputer Joins The Fight Against COVID-19

The Summit Supercomputer located in Oak Ridge, TN, has put its artificial intelligence towards the fight against COVID-19. Daniel Jacobson, chief scientist for computational systems biology at Oak Ridge National Labs, and his team of researchers fed Summit genetic data from COVID-19 samples to compare and come up with a hypothesis and potential treatment options. After a week of running the data, the researchers viewed Summit’s findings and came to the Bradykinin Hypothesis…

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Voting During A Pandemic

2020 has been one long, inescapable nightmare and the presidential campaign has had no small part in that. Now the candidates have been chosen the race is finally nearing its end. The swarm of political ads and rampant display of campaign merchandise means that our most sacred of civil duties is once again upon us. Crowds will be gathering around polls and with them the danger of the spread of Covid-19…

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Covid-19 and “Prayers That Are Made Out of Grass”

At first, to be honest, I relished the abrupt and absolute vanishing of all the entries on my calendar after the Covid-19 pandemic hit. No more soccer games on Saturdays. No more church on Wednesday nights. No more showing up in person to teach, or driving my kids to and from school. No more anything outside of the home. The shelter in place order fed my shadow introvert tendencies. I relished wearing yoga pants every day, sleeping in, and the extra time with my family…

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