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By Karla Freeman Chicken little: Is the sky falling? Chicken Little stood outside her house and said, “The sky is falling. Oh, my God, the sky is falling.“ Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, gloves, and masks fell on her from the sky. She looked up saw dark clouds above...
By Mark Mahoney As we transition out of National Nutrition Month in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of good nutrition, particularly when many of us are under orders to shelter-in-place, is very important. Healthy eating is especially important for...
Lunes, 13/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Sorry for going AWOL on you. My computer broke. Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Eduardo Vega - The documents of ceramic artist Eduardo Vega are being organized. There are some 5,000 articles including books, drawings, letters,...
Cuenca marked the 463rd anniversary of its Spanish founding on Sunday but there were no concerts, crafts fairs or parades. The celebrations and public gatherings associated with the holiday have been cancelled as a result of the coronavirus health emergency. “It is a...
A deluge of new test results has pushed Ecuador’s confirmed Covid-19 case count to more than 7,000. The Ministry of Health said that a 300 to 400 percent increase in tests pushed the one-day increase of cases to 2,196, the largest to date. Reporting the new numbers,...
Instead of delivering his traditional Good Friday blessing from the pulpit, Cuenca Monsignor Marcos Pérez flew over the city in a helicopter as he read from scripture and offered his commentary. During the 90-minute overflight, the monsignor circled the city’s two...
Taelor Leavins, a popular waitress at Cuenca's Sunrise Café for three years, passed away suddenly after a brief illness on March 4, 2020. She arrived in Cuenca with her family from Texas at the age of 15 and finished her high school education here. Her daughter...
By Giovanni Cambizaca Now that the coronavirus is no longer just a smudge of misery hidden by the curve of the earth’s surface, writing about food all the time seems a little trivial, so this week I’m going to consider the way we live now and try to place that in a...
Viernes, 3/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Writing contest - El Mercurio and the Centro de Estudios Sociales de América Latina digital publishing house is calling for authors to participate in the "Testimonios, vivencias o reflexiones sociales ante la pandemia del...
What if someone told you that with just a few drops of blood from a finger prick they could detect a range of illnesses, from diabetes to cancer? Would you be inclined to opt for this diagnostic tool rather than having to submit to having a phlebotomist extract blood...
Martes, 7/4/2020 Hola, Todos - About those fake news articles - remember I said de vez en cuando, no cada día. The acrylic box is real - like a plastic laboratory glove box only not totally enclosed. Actividades - De la pagina cultural - 100 years of indigenous...
By Kristen Fischer Experts continue to encourage people to eat well and exercise during the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, reports claiming that supplements can prevent or treat Covid-19 have emerged. Health experts warn that relying on supplements — and taking too...
He was headed past the cloisters of the Governor’s Building next to Parque Calderon when I encountered the tiny boy. Or, was he “headed” at all, I began to wonder, as those red shoe soles tapped hurriedly up and down on the dirty, rust-colored tiles. There certainly...
The education ministry announced Tuesday afternoon that classes will not resume in the current school year. “We will complete the term with online and television instruction and plan to finish on schedule June 30,” Ecucation Minister Monserrat Creamer said in a...
Researchers testing the head lice drug Ivermectin as a possible treatment for COVID-19 have seen promising results in lab studies. But the research is in its early stages and the drug is yet to be tested on people with COVID-19. There’s so much we don’t know,...
By Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D. The hospitals are eerily quiet, except for Covid-19. I have heard this sentiment from fellow doctors across the United States and in many other countries. We are all asking: Where are all the patients with heart attacks and stroke? They are...
Lunes, 1/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Sorry for the rant on 4/1 and thanks to all of you for your kind and supportive wishes. Obviously I'm not coping well with the Quedate En Case. But I've decided that April Fool's Day shouldn't be restricted to only one day a year, and so...
By Jeremiah Reardon My friend Ramon’s wrists are secured to a side rail of his critical care bed. Perspiration trickles from his forehead to straining eyes which roll upward. I wipe his brow and hold a hand. I’m alarmed at his condition on my first visit to the...
By Giovanni Cambizaca We are all doing well out here in San Miguel, and I hope the same is true for you and that you are managing to put a life together under our new circumstances. Since we are all at home and have a lot more time on our hands than we ever expected,...
President Lenin Moreno announced extentions to most restrictions intended to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus on Thursday morning. Noting the increase of Covid-19 cases and deaths, Moreno said it is time for all Ecuadorians to work together to control the...
