This article comments about nonadherence to COVID-19 behavioral instructions. It should also be a warning about the acceptance of ACEs and the necessary community responses.

The medical debate about herd immunity is intense. Here is a look at what medical practitioners are saying to each other.

I hope this posting will encourage you to look at this site in a different way and get involved. Reach me through the site. Make a personal posting, such as I have done, on the site. Suggest a topic for a Zoom meeting.

When the government ignores rational health policy, and instead follows unsound ones, the effects can last longer than anyone expects.

For thoughts of us without an institutional base here is a resource. National Library of Medicine https://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Follow This Link for Research that can be used to conceptualize ACES affects on society. https://www.acesconnection.com/blog/aces-research-corner-november-2020

This US Census economic data show how far we will have to go to recover.

The Lancet EDITORIAL| VOLUME 396, ISSUE 10263 , P1607, NOVEMBER 21, 2020 Excerpts The prospect of preventing illness and death, and avoiding the harm and misery of extended restrictions, is a cause for optimism. But although it is right to be hopeful and encouraged, we are far from ending COVID-19 as a public health issue. Pfizer and Moderna together project that there will be enough vaccine for 35 million individuals in 2020, and perhaps up to 1 billion in 2021. As a result, many millions...

Policy changes can be key to both transforming health in a community and helping to eliminate inequities. But when policies aren’t created or enforced with equity in mind, they may perpetuate these disparities – or even amplify them.

By Phillip Hughes and Tabitha L. Ostrout, HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine, November 1, 2020 Background: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been shown to contribute to a litany of mental and physical health problems, including several chronic diseases and death, via a model known as the ACE pyramid. Many of the results of ACEs in the ACE pyramid are known contributors to poor perceived health, which has significant health implications. Despite these results, a possible link between...

Join us on Friday November 6, 2020 from noon to 1:00 PST as we come together and join Satya Chandragiri MD, Bonnie O’Hern RN, Denise PNP, & Michael Polacek RN for a discussion around the tender issue of suicide. Together we will discuss ways people and providers can support each other and encourage communities to take action to support one another around suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and the layers of culture and structural barriers to care. A special emphasis will be on...

By Dr Rebecca Lacey, October 29, 2019, ACAMH. Rebecca Lacey is a Senior Research Fellow in life course social epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. Her research interests lie in the long-term health effects of early life adversities and effects of social relationships on health using longitudinal population datasets. When bad things happen to children, they can potentially have long lasting consequences throughout their lives – they...