September 2021

Sep. 29—With a one-game wild-card playoff looming to decide if they advance in the postseason and two compelling pitchers returning from injury, the Cardinals have prioritized finding innings for Jack Flaherty and Dakota Hudson and seeing what possibilities emerge for their roles.

Dear Annie: My 20-yearold daughter, “Jessica,” was adopted when she was 2 by her mom and her first husband, and I adopted her when she was 15. She decided to reach out to her birth mother in a very small town with very limited opportunities last February, and then she moved across the country to be with her in April.

Set aside the specter of overflowing intensive care units in Idaho -- or that the state’s emergency rooms are now choosing which COVID-19 patients to save and which ones to give up on. The situation is so bad that desperate patients are crossing the border into Washington state to find hospital beds, putting Spokane hospitals under siege.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma City VA Health Care System (OKCVAHCS) will begin offering Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine booster shots under Emergency Use Authorization. This decision follows the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authorization and CDC recommendation for a booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to • People 65 years and older and residents in longterm care settings should receive a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine at least 6 months after their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series • People aged 50–64 years with underlying medical conditions should receive a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine at least 6 months after their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series • People aged 18–49 years with underlying medical conditions may receive a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine at least 6 months after their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series, based on their individual benefits and risk • People aged 18-64 years who are at increased risk for COVID-19 exposure and transmission because of occupational or institutional setting may receive a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine at least 6 months after their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series, based on their individual benefits and risks “Our facility knows that fighting the COVID-19 pandemic is truly a team effort and we will continue to make sure we are doing all we can to protect our Veterans, staff and the Oklahoma City community against COVID-19,” said Wade Vlosich, OKCVAHCS Director.

Dear Annie: I find your column to be informative and entertaining. One subject that emerges often is the grieving of a loved one.

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) of Northern Oklahoma will be holding a rally on Thursday, Sept. 30 at 3 pm, to stand in solidarity with Canadian indigenous boarding school survivors, as the policies that dictated the Canadian boarding schools originated in the US.