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Rather Outdoors Hires SVP Brand Management – SGB Media

Rather Outdoors announced that industry veteranZack Swansonwould join its North American operation on February 1, 2022, to lead Lews, Strike King, Zebco, and Quantum as its SVP brand management.

Swanson joins the company following a career spanning two decades at Rapala VMC Corp. as VP sales and general manager. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors for the American Sportfishing Association, which he has held since 2016.

Rocky Kalsow, President of North America for Rather Outdoors, sees the appointment of Zack Swanson as an important step forward for its brands. Lews has been home to true American innovation since 1949, the same year the very first spin cast reel rolled off the production line at a company that would later become known as Zebco. Both Strike King and Quantum have been creating groundbreaking tackle for nearly half a century, Kalsow said. At Rather Outdoors, our brands have solidified themselves as legendary names, and they have a rich legacy of being built and guided by true giants of this industry. We continue this tradition by having Zack at the helm.

I could not be more excited to be a part of this family. The leadership of Rather has worked tirelessly to build an environment where innovation and progress are celebrated, said Swanson. There is a deep history here at Rather that we will continue to honor and draw strength from, but make no mistake, there are exciting days ahead, and anglers who love these brands will want to pay attention.

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Joovy Introduces RooLoop to Give Parents Confidence and Control While Practicing Skin-to-Skin Contact – aNb Media

Joovy introduces the RooLoop, a clinically endorsed product for expectant and new parents to promote skin-to-skin contact with newborns. This patented design, used in hospitals, NICU, and operating rooms worldwide, is now available to pregnant and postpartum parents for a supportive and natural way to secure a newborn baby while enjoying the benefits of skin-to-skin contact.

Loss of control is how the RooLoop came to be after Hayley Mullins dropped her two-week-old infant while practicing skin-to-skin contact. She took her hands away for only two seconds, but the baby fell to the floor. The shock and devastation motivated this new mom to find a solution that would give parents the confidence to practice skin-to-skin safely. Mullins, Ashley Wade, and Sarah Cox make up the founding team that brought Joeyband (formerly Sleepbelt) to market, quickly receiving support from La Leche League International and becoming a staple product in leading hospitals and clinics worldwide.

Mullinss honest story gives pause, but the truth is that babies are dropped by parents every day. The silver lining is that out of her despair, there is now a safe way to practice this beneficial skin-to-skin contact in the comfort of your own home.

The RooLoop, as marketed in the states for consumers, can be used prenatally for belly support during the third trimester and after the baby arrives to gently secure the infant to the mothers chest or breast. The RooLoop gives mom confidence that baby is snug and secure and aids the overall skin-to-skin experience.

Clinicians point out many benefits of skin-to-skin contact with infants. The Cleveland Clinic recommends skin-to-skin care to stabilize the babys heartbeat, breathing pattern, and oxygen saturation levels. Additionally, skin-to-skin contact can aid in sleep time, weight gain, breastfeeding success. Parents benefit from bonding, increased breastmilk supply, confidence in overall care, and a sense of control.

We are thrilled to partner with Joovy to bring this important product to parents everywhere, says Mullins. As a parent who has experienced an infant fall, I know how quickly they can happen, and how scary they can be. Knowing that we can continue to make change in hospitals, while Joovy makes RooLoop accessible directly to families, means together we can improve health outcomes and drive real change in the way families experience the fourth trimester.

Skin-to-skin contact, also recognized as kangaroo care, was first reported in Bogota, Colombia, in the 1970s to treat premature babies whose survival rates were extremely low. Using skin-to-skin techniques helped these babies not only survive but thrive after being held close to their mothers bodies.

Important benefits of skin-to-skin contact include reduction in crying, improvement in breathing regulation, a calming effect in both you and baby and so much more. The practice is recommended for full-term babies, and all parents can benefit from it. And theres more good news to share: moms arent the only ones who benefit from kangaroo care. Dads are getting in on the bonding and enjoy nuzzling their infants too. The process works for twins and multiple infants, and the RooLoop can accommodate all.

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Vaughn Palmer: Dr. Henry pivots to self-management of COVID, but hasn’t given up the fight – Vancouver Sun

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Opinion: While hoping COVID can be managed in the future much like the flu, it will remain dangerous for certain people, health officer says

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VICTORIA After two years and more than 250 pandemic media briefings, Dr. Bonnie Henry is still capable of shaking up the narrative.

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I absolutely recognize this is a shift, the provincial health office said Friday in laying out a self-management approach to dealing with the latest wave of COVID-19.

The Omicron variant spreads so quickly, contact tracing is no longer viable.The surge in cases means that testing has to be reserved for health care workers and those at high risk of serious illness.

That leaves the rest of us responsible for monitoring our own health and, if necessary, managing our own symptoms.

With the level of transmission in our communities, we all need to assume that we have been in contact with somebody with the virus, said Henry.So at this time, everyone, all of us, needs to routinely check ourselves every day. We absolutely need to pay attention to how we are feeling.

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As long as were feeling well, we can and must continue going to work, going to school, and socializing safety in our small groups.

If you have a fever, or even a mild illness like a sore throat or the sniffles, you need to stay at home and stay away from others, she said.If you feel better the next day, then you can go back to school or work or child care. This applies to children in daycare or in school as well as with adults.

However Henry said this does not mean public health officials have given up trying to contain Omicron and decided to let it rip, so to speak.

There is a narrative that we should just abandon all restrictions, we should not be doing anything, we should just let it go because its mild and who cares, she admitted.I do not subscribe to that narrative.

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Rather, with hospitals strained by COVID-19 cases and health care workers themselves booking off sick, she was trying to conserve scarce resources for those who need them most.

Its important to recognize that there are some people who are at higher risk, she said, citing those with compromised immune systems and those over the age of 70.

Granted, the new variant is not causing as much severe illness, particularly among the vaccinated and those whove had booster shots.

But it is not an innocuous illness, she emphasized. It is making people feel very unwell, some of them for a longer period of time.

As a measure of the stresses on the system, she was asked about a leaked memo from Fraser Health, saying that patients who are fully vaccinated but uninfected with the virus could find themselves in a hospital room alongside someone with COVID-19.

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It was about maximizing our ability to provide care maximizing the use of space if needed, with additional precautions in place, said Henry.

At that point Health Minister Adrian Dix weighed in to note that Fraser Health had been struggling with 500 COVID-19 cases in hospital and almost 2,500 health care workers booked off sick.

When you have a lot of people in the hospital, said Dix, you have to manage within the space you have and ensure that infection control stays high.

For some time, Henry has been saying that well have to learn to live with this virus as weve learned to manage annual outbreaks of the flu.

She was asked Friday whether the self-management regimen was her way of preparing British Columbians for how we are going to live with COVID-19 for the long term.

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At first she said no: I dont think that this is how were going to live with it in the long term.

But then she corrected herself, telling the reporter you are right, were preparing for how we live with this when we no longer have those restrictions that we have in place now.

What was happening now including the drive to increase vaccinations and boosters as the best protection against serious cases and hospitalizations is going to help prepare us for whatever comes next.

Because there will be something next, added Henry, lest anyone assume that Omicron is the end of the story.

Because of the amount of transmission weve seen and the amount of immunity that weve developed from vaccination and from the transmission of omicron, were probably going to have a much more gentle summer than weve had for the last two years. Then well have to prepare ourselves for whatever comes next in the fall.

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She hopes that future waves will unfold in smaller and smaller oscillations.

Hope is not a strategy, she conceded. But I do hope that we will end up with another coronavirus that causes mostly mild illness.

Even in that best case scenario, people who dont have as strong an immune system will still be at risk of having more severe illness.

We see that with other respiratory viruses that cause infections, she continued.Influenza being classic: People who are older, people who have immune-compromising conditions and the very young tend to be the most at risk, and I expect that that is likely to continue for some time.

In short, as Henry has said more than once over the past two years, there are no no-risk scenarios in the pandemic.

Nor, judging from Fridays briefing, is the end in sight.

vpalmer@postmedia.com

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Neil Young calls for his music to be pulled off Spotify over Joe Rogan vaccine misinformation: reports – WPIX 11 New York

Neil Young poses for a portrait at Lost Planet Editorial in Santa Monica, Calif. on Sept. 9, 2019. (Photo by Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP, File)

(NEXSTAR) Singer Neil Young reportedly asked for his songs to be removed from Spotify, a streaming service for music and podcasts, over false information about vaccines.

In an open letter posted to his website, Young called on his management team and record label to remove his music, Rolling Stone and Stereogum report. As of Monday evening, the letter appeared to have been removed from Youngs site.

According to reports, Young wrote, Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them.

He added that Spotify can have [Joe] Rogan or Young. Not both, Rolling Stone reports.

Recently, 270 health care professionals signed an open letter to Spotify calling for the service to take action against the misinformation being shared on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

By allowing the propagation of false and societally harmful assertions, Spotify is enabling its hosted media to damage public trust in scientific research and sow doubt in the credibility of data-driven guidance offered by medical professionals,the letterstated.

Health care professionals highlighted an episode featuring virologist Robert Malone, who they say promotes misinformation about COVID-19. This episodehas been heavily criticized by many experts for remarksregarding the pandemic and how the coronavirus impacts people, especially those who are younger, The Hill reports.

One of the doctors who signed the letter, Dr. Katrine Wallace, an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health, told On Balance that they were not calling for censorship or removal of the podcast. Instead, they want Spotify to create a policy on how to moderate misinformation.

As of Monday evening, both Youngs music and Rogans podcast are available on Spotify. Youngs label Warner Records and Spotify did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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