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Winter COVID Reader — Links and Resources

Apps and calculators: COVID Alert PA appCOVID Symptom Study -- Massachusetts General HospitalMy COVID Risk app -- assessing risk for specific activities and risk factorsCOVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Tool -- calculator for gatherings by county National statistical summaries: White House Coronavirus Task Force profile report for PA from Nov 29 -- featuring the greatest hits […]

A Turkey in Every Pod

It is fantastic that so much progress is being made toward a COVID-19 vaccine. It is thrilling to think that putting the insanity of this year behind us is now on the horizon. But it's important to remember that it will be a while yet until that comes to fruition, even given the promising announcements […]

How to Read a Graph Mid-Pandemic

Let me preface this by saying, this article is NOT intended to incite panic, but rather to ensure greater understanding and encourage a rational local response. Let's look at where we stand here in early November. In case you haven’t noticed, COVID-19 is spreading widely in most of the country. Geisinger Health System's CEO noted […]

COVID-Safe Holidays for the Win!

Downtown Lewisburg didn’t have Halloween trick-or-treating this year. The weather was fine, but concerns about COVID dictated a cautious and creative approach and so the Market Street Mask-A-Rade was born. We should all be taking that example to heart and thinking about how to apply our public health glasses to the upcoming holidays and re-envision […]

School Daze with COVID: Locally and Across America

NOTE: After this was published, Bucknell reported an increase in cases and in an effort to tamp down any growth beyond whatever is already baked in, issued a shelter-in-place order for campus. The impact both on the university and on the larger community will be playing out over the next few weeks. As mentioned in […]

Dunning-Kruger Strikes Again

People involved with Walk It! Bike It! Lewisburg over the past few years may recall an effort to call attention to a little known book called Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us). We wrote a post on the website summarizing a key chapter from that book in hopes that the phenomenon it describes […]

Members of the community working together to preserve natural settings and streetscapes, strengthen ties among neighbors, and improve the quality of life in Lewisburg for residents and visitors.