This Week November 10, 2022
Doug Walker will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance
Pam Harrison will lead us in the 4 Way Test
Del Beatty will lead us in a moment of blessing.
Our program this week:
November 10th:
Carl and Pam are very pleased to be awarding
Paul Harris Fellow recognitions to some of our members
AND
A hands on class in how to use our website! Bring your devices, we'll be walking through it step by step.
November 17th:
Jordan Rushton, President of
And, of course, there will NOT be a meeting on Thursday, November 24th.
Upcoming events:
Yes, the Holidays are upon us!
Mark your calendars for our annual Holiday Social. This year we are excited to announce our gathering will be at the
Warbird Museum
on December 8th, at 5:30.
Stay tuned for details.
The Rotary District 5420 Annual District Conference
will be held May 4th-5th, 2023 in the Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center. More details as we get closer. BUT, this will be an event to remember so MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!
Upcoming meetings:
The next Board Meeting will be Thursday, December 1st, at the Bloomington Country Club at 5:30.
The Annual Meeting of this Club will be on December 1st. We will meet at the usual Thursday morning time.
The next Service Committee meting will be December 6th at the Schwartz home.
Upcoming Opportunities for Service Above Self.
Because of Thanksgiving, the dates of this month's monthly food drive have been shuffled a bit.
The Bagging and Boxing will be on
November 16th at the Food Bank.
Washington City distribution will be on
Thursday, November 21st
St. George distribution will be on
Friday, November 22nd.
Snow Canyon Cleanup will take place on Saturday, November 19th
from 9:00 - 10:30
Millcreek High School Warm Clothing
We will, as we have for many years now, be gathering warm clothing for the Millcreek High School Students. Hats, gloves, sweaters, sweatshirts, leggings, jackets, etc. We ask that the items donated be new with the original tags still in place. We'll tell why that matters. Tentative date for the trip to the school will be December 15th.
Gift bags for the shut-in seniors.
As you shop this season for basic necessities, please include items for those who live alone and may have no other gifts. Items from basic needs such as lotion to those things wanted but usually out of reach such as notecards and stamps are just the tip of the suggestion ice berg. It is possible those bags will be delivered that same day as the Millcreek items (but may be the next week.) So please don't let the need for one prevent you from thinking of the other. After all, we have much and many have little.
As you are aware, our Club sponsored the Rotary Satellite Club of Southern Utah Veterans.
We are happy to see members of their club joining us from time to time and hope perhaps some of you would like to attend a meeting with them.
They meet the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month at 6 pm at the Elks Lodge.
Thank You Veterans Club for your service!
Greetings Polio Warriors:
WILD POLIO VIRUS, TYPE 1 (WPV1) - Unfortunately this week there was one new case of Wild Polio Virus Type 1, this time in Mozambique, bringing their total to 8 for the year.
FORTY- EIGHT - The number of days since the last case of WPV1 occurred in Pakistan (September 15th).
SIXTY-FOUR - The number of days since the last case of WPV1 occurred in Afghanistan (August 29th).
EIGHTY-FOUR - The number of days since the last case of WPV1 occurred in Mozambique (August 10th).
THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT - (11 MONTHS +) - The number of days since the last case of WPV1 occurred in Malawi (November 19th, 2021).
THIRTY - The total number of cases of WPV1 that has occurred in 2022 year-to- date (2 in Afghanistan, 8 in Mozambique and 20 in Pakistan).
SIX - The total number of cases of WPV1 that occurred in 2021 (1 in Pakistan, 1 in Malawi and 4 in Afghanistan).
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY - The total number of cases of WPV1 that occurred in 2020.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX - The total number of cases of WPV1 that occurred in 2019.
There was 1 new Positive Environmental Sample collected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the area where all of Pakistan’s cases have originated this year. This brings the total count of Positive Wild Environmental Samples, year to date, 40, 36 in Pakistan and 4 in Afghanistan.
CIRCULATING VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO - On our other battlefront in the war on polio, the circulating Vaccine-Derived Polio, there were 18 new cases compared to 9 cases last week. DR Congo had 10 of those cases, 7 of which were Type 1 and 3 were Type 2, followed by 5 Type 1cases in Mozambique. Madagascar had 2 Type 1 cases, followed by Nigeria with 1 type 2 case. This brings year to date
case totals to 467, compared to 444 a year ago at this time. DR Congo remains our biggest problem, with 199 cases representing 43% of the total 467 worldwide. WHO reports that outbreak responses to both the cVDPV1 and cVDPV2 continue to be intensified in that country.
And finally, there were 2 Positive Vaccine Derived Environmental Sample (ES) reported last week, 1 each from Botswana and the Central African Republic, and both were Type 2. That brings the total number of Positive Vaccine Derived Environmental Samples (ES) to 248 for the year.
• POLIO IN NEW YORK...ARE WE OUT OF THE WOODS YET? - I read an article recently in the CDC’s November 4, 2022 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) that I think answers that question. It stated that Positive Environmental Samples were still showing up in Rockland, Orange and Sullivan Counties, neighbors to New York City, as recently as the week of October 2nd to October 8th. To make sure I was interpreting the information correctly, I contacted the author, A. Blythe Ryerson, PhD, MPH, Deputy Incident Manager of the CDC’s NY State Polio Response Team, and he verified that I was indeed, interpreting it correctly. Here is a graph from the research article with the pertinent information shown. Note that
the MMMR “week 40” (on the bottom of the graph) corresponds to samples taken the week of Oct 2-8, 2022. For the full research article, click here. The good news is that there have been no new cases of cVDP2 (circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Type 2) reported beyond that of the young adult male who first contracted it on June 20, 2022 in Rockland County.
• AN INTERVIEW WITH
THE DOCTOR WHO
RUNS INDIA’S LAST
POLIO WARD - When I
was in Delhi, India in
January, 2020, on an
NID trip (National
Immunization Day), I
had he good fortune to
meet and be briefed by
Orthopaedic surgeon Dr.
Mathew Varghese,
Senior Consultant and
Head of the Department
of Orthopaedics at St. Stephen’s Hospital in Delhi. His 16 bed polio ward is the last one in India. He performs corrective surgery on polio victims and turns their lives around from being crawlers into being persons in an upright world. This wide ranging interview, IMHO is worth your investment of time. To access the interview, click here.
*Note: our community has an endless number of absolutely critical needs and needs help from our citizens. However, as a Rotary Club we cannot be all things to all people. So only those service opportunities approved by the Board will be listed in this bulletin. If you have project you wish our members to support, please submit your request to President Dave prior to the Board Meeting each month. Thank you!