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How and where to get Covid 19 vaccines and boosters.

A Covid 19 Guide from AARP

According to the CDC’s Covid Tracker, the number of cases of Covid is on the rise. That has many asking where to get vaccinated or receive the vaccine booster. AARP’s Georgia chapter has a great guide to the vaccines available. It’s worth reading as you decide how to proceed.

AARP Georgia says, “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends getting an omicron-specific (bivalent) booster, which targets the original strain of the coronavirus as well as more recently circulating variants (BA.4 and BA.5). The original vaccines, called monovalent vaccines, will no longer be available as booster doses.”

>>Click here to read the AARP article which explains the differences in the various vaccines and boosters, as well as where you can find them.

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Forgetful? Good news – it may just be Covid-related brain fog.

Ask your physician about cognitive rehabilitation.

If a loved one is having difficulty sustaining attention, organizing activities and multitasking, don’t immediately suspect dementia. It could be a lasting effect of Covid… and there’s a treatment that can help. The AJC recently published an article about cognitive rehab being used to address lingering brain fog.

(From the Atlanta Journal Constitution) In a recent development, some medical centers are offering cognitive rehabilitation to patients with long COVID (symptoms that persist several months or longer after an infection that can’t be explained by other medical conditions). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 in 4 older adults who survive COVID have at least one persistent symptom.

Experts are enthusiastic about cognitive rehabilitation’s potential. “Anecdotally, we’re seeing a good number of people [with long COVID] make significant gains with the right kinds of interventions,” said Monique Tremaine, director of neuropsychology and cognitive rehabilitation at Hackensack Meridian Health’s JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute in New Jersey.

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