covid 19 - Blog - The Oracle Mag2024-03-28T13:36:40Zhttps://www.theoraclemag.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/covid+19Charlotte’s Black-Owned Restaurants Still Struggling With Pandemic-Related Problemshttps://www.theoraclemag.com/profiles/blogs/charlotte-s-black-owned-restaurants-still-struggling-with-pandemi2021-08-10T23:58:48.000Z2021-08-10T23:58:48.000ZPrince Malachi The Firsthttps://www.theoraclemag.com/members/Malachi<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9406159891?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><div id="feedlyChrome" class="feedlyChrome--leftnav-open">
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Sharon and Cliff Freshwater said getting customers to return since the Covid-19 pandemic has been a struggle. (Photo: Jalon Hill for QCity Metro)
<p>“Bear with me. I’ll be with you in a minute,” Sharon Freshwater, co-owner of Freshwaters Restaurant, said as new customers walked through the door.</p>
<p>As a pandemic-related labor shortage drags on, Freshwater and her husband, Cliff Freshwater, are working as a two-person staff to keep their business afloat. While Sharon serves customers in the dining room, her husband cooks food in the kitchen.</p>
<p>At Lulu’s Maryland Style Chicken and Seafood, known for its signature crab cakes, co-owner Joseph “Jay” Davis is wrestling with another pandemic-related problem — sporadic shortages of meat.</p>
<p>“We don’t have a lot of what our most recognizable dishes are because we don’t know when crab meat is going to come in and when we are going to have it,” he said.</p>
<p>As the spread of Covid-19 enters a troubling new phase with the rise of the more contagious Delta variant, some of Charlotte’s most prominent Black-owned restaurants are still reeling from the first wave of the pandemic.</p>
<p>In addition to struggling with food and labor shortages, some owners, like Sharon and Cliff Freshwater, said customers have been slow to return.</p>
<p>“It’s been a struggle,” Sharon Freshwater told QCity Metro during a recent interview. “We’re still working on getting people back out to the restaurant. We’re running specials, but it doesn’t seem to be working.”</p>
<p><strong>Click <a href="https://qcitymetro.com/2021/08/10/pandemic-misery-continues-for-charlottes-black-owned-restaurants/" target="_blank">here</a> to read more.</strong></p>
<p><em>SOURCE: Q City Metro, Jalon Hill</em></p>
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</script></div>Study Finds at Least 35% of U.S. Workers Battle Depressive Symptoms Amid Coronavirus Pandemic but Few Seek Professional Helphttps://www.theoraclemag.com/profiles/blogs/study-finds-at-least-35-of-u-s-workers-battle-depressive-symptoms2020-10-29T04:32:14.000Z2020-10-29T04:32:14.000ZPrince Malachi The Firsthttps://www.theoraclemag.com/members/Malachi<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8089391872?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><div id="floatingEntry">
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<p>As much as 35% of U.S. workers have battled depressive symptoms amid the coronavirus pandemic but few have been seeking professional help, a recent study published by the Society for Human Resource Management has found.</p>
<p>A new partnership between <a href="https://www.questdiagnostics.com/home/" target="_blank">Quest Diagnostics</a>, the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services, and <a href="https://www.catapulthealth.com/" target="_blank">Catapult Health</a>, a virtual health care provider which features self-collected at-home specimen collection and mental healthcare support, hopes to change that for employees and their dependents, as many put off routine visits to the doctor for fear of getting COVID-19.</p>
<p>In the study, <em><a href="https://shrm.org/hr-today/trends-and-forecasting/research-and-surveys/Documents/SHRM%20CV19%20Mental%20Health%20Research%20Presentation%20v1.pdf?_ga=2.123678731.1058203098.1595606078-1397504103.1595606078" target="_blank">Navigating COVID-19: Impact of The Pandemic on Mental Health</a></em>, researchers surveyed a random sample of 1,099 U.S. employees from the online panel Prolific from April 15-16. Some 89% of the employees worked for an organization, 11% were self-employed, 19% lived alone; 33% lived with one other person, while another 33% lived with two or more people.</p>
<p>A majority, 58% of the individuals in the study, also reported living with at least one person considered to be in a vulnerable population such as healthcare workers, essential employees, those over 65 years old or an immunocompromised person.</p>
<p>Researchers found that 22–35% of employees in the study reported experiencing symptoms of depression often, and as many as two in three reported experiencing depressive symptoms at least sometimes.</p>
<p>And to deal with their depression-related symptoms, more than half of these workers, 60%, reached out to a family member or friend (42%), a colleague (11%) or a mental health professional (7%) for help. Nearly 40% of employees reported doing nothing to cope with their depression-related symptoms.</p>
<p>David Michel, CEO of Catapult Health, said when employees skip seeing trained health professionals, the long-term consequences can be dire.</p>
<p><strong>Click <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/many-workers-battled-depressive-symptoms-amid-pandemic-study.html" target="_blank">here</a> to read more.</strong></p>
<p><em>SOURCE: Christian Post, Leonardo Blair</em></p>
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