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Here’s what the 7 stages of severe COVID-19 look like
Get vaccinated. If you choose not to, here’s what to expect if you are hospitalized for a serious case of COVID-19.
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These 4-year-old twins released balloons with letters to Santa. A stranger 650 miles away found them and brought them their gifts.
Alvin Bamburg was determined to get everything on the 4-year-old's Christmas list — including a puppy.
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Alex Trebek Wardrobe Donated To Homeless Organization For Job Interviews
Fourteen suits, 58 dress shirts, 300 neckties and various other items of clothing that once belonged to Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek have been donated by the show and the Trebek family to The Doe Fund, an organization that provides paid work, housing, vocational training, continuing education, and comprehensive social services to underserved Americans with histories of addiction, homelessness, and incarceration.
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7 Things You Can Do Now to Make the World a Better Place
Giving back isn’t just something companies can do. Here are several ways individuals can do good for the world and have real impact.
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A 15-year-old is dropping off puzzles and handwritten notes at nursing homes to cheer up residents
Hita Gupta was heartbroken upon learning her regular visits to nursing homes were put on hold because of coronavirus. "They told me that I couldn't visit because they were trying to limit interaction with seniors to prevent the spread," Gupta told CNN. The 15-year-old had been volunteering at one facility near her home in Paoli, Pennsylvania, for more than a year -- organizing activities like trivia and bingo for the residents.
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Anonymous donor gives $1 million to virus-fighting hospital staff
Santa Cruz, California -- Around the country, there's a lot of gratitude for medical providers these days, and in Santa Cruz, California, a recent anonymous note to the local hospital was no exception. "Thank you for standing up (and staying up!) to care for our community," it said. "This humankindness is what makes you heroic." It was the donation that came with that note - $1 million - that has hospital employees cheering.
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'One night they don't have to cook or do dishes': Gresham apartment manager buys dinner for all his tenants
“We have a lot of really good tenants,” said apartment manager Rob Mager. “A lot of them have been there 20 years.” Mager reached out to Bumpers Grill & Bar in Fairview to prepare and deliver around 225 meals to his tenants over four nights. “It's a nice gesture,” said Dean Hurford who owns Bumpers with his wife Marcia. “I was like 'Ok, how do we simplify that?' And [Mager] was like, 'No, I don't want to simply that, I want prime rib, I want great dinners!’”
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'We will feed you': Man who tried to steal from Kitchener's Central Fresh Market shown compassion over justice
A local grocer is being lauded on social media after giving away groceries to a man who was stealing from his store. Mike Williamson, owner of Central Fresh Market in the heart of Kitchener-Waterloo, wasn’t looking for publicity for himself, according to his son Josh. However his heartfelt gesture on Monday garnered hundreds of likes and shares on social media, thanks to customers who witnessed the act.
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A Maine girl sold her toys and used the money to support health care workers and others
A 7-year-old girl from Warren is proving you’re never too young to start giving back to your local community — especially in times of crisis. Over the past week, Alexandrea Fullerton has been raising money for Pen Bay Medical Center and the Warren Food Pantry by selling her toys. [Our COVID-19 tracker contains the most recent information on Maine cases by county] “I just wanted to be nice,” she said. “[Hospitals] need money so they can buy masks and gloves so they’re safe.”
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This California Farm Helps The Homeless Get Off The Streets
Michael Laffoon has a vivid memory of the day he decided to piece his life back together. “I literally woke up in my van and I thought ‘I can’t do this anymore because I’m going to die,’” he says. “It was just an overwhelming feeling that I had come to the end of a chapter.”
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Oregon Woman Turns School Buses Into Tiny Homes for Working Homeless Families
Julie Akins, a freelance journalist based in Ashland, Oregon, began a life-changing road trip in August 2016. Off and on over the course of the next two years, she pitched her tent and lived among homeless people from Portland to Denver.
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A 7-Eleven owner caught a teen thief. Instead of calling 911, he asked him why
On Saturday night at a 7-Eleven in Toledo, Ohio, store owner Jay Singh spotted someone who made him suspicious. "You can see he's turning here, putting stuff in his pocket," he said. Singh told an employee to call 911, and then he confronted the customer. "He said, 'Oh, I'll put it back.' I said 'No, put everything on the counter. I want to see all the things that you have,'" Singh said.
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How a simple act of kindness transformed a boy's birthday
How do kids behave when there are no grown-ups around? Donette Mabes of South Brunswick, New Jersey, says you never really know. "Because you're not watching them at that moment, and at that time," she said. She had always just assumed her son was good -- until recently, when 13-year-old Gavin Mabes got caught on tape showing his true character.
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Woman buys out entire store to donate shoes to Nebraska flood victims
Addy Tritt went into her local Payless shoe store in Hays, Kansas, and bought out the store. Then, the 25-year-old donated the shoes. The recent graduate of Kansas' Fort Hays State noticed Payless was going out of business and offered to buy the shoes it had left. Tritt said she spent two hours on the phone with the corporate office and was able to negotiate a deal, paying only $100 for 204 pair of shoes valued at around $6,000.
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'My dad is sad’: Son's sweet tweet helps save father’s empty doughnut shop
Billy's Donuts has now gone viral thanks to a caring son's social media post. Social media has served as a facilitator for small doughnut shops to draw big crowds on multiple occasions. Last fall, a hole in the wall cafe in Seal Beach, California, began to sell out early every morning when a note to help the owners went viral on Facebook. Earlier this year, a gourmet doughnut maker had even longer lines out the door when patrons discovered he prevailed after a near-death experience.
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California Man Gives Car to Student Who Cried Over Down Payment at Dealership: 'I Was Shaking'
A nursing student who left a car dealership in tears because she couldn’t afford a vehicle got the ultimate surprise when a fellow customer offered her his car for free. Kayla Cooper — who works two part-time jobs when she’s not studying nursing — visited the Auto City pre-owned car dealership in El Cajon, California, to look for a new ride in February, she told local ABC affiliate KGTVthis link opens in a new tab.
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This Sweet McDonald’s Employee Paid For A Customer’s Meal When She Forgot Her Wallet
A McDonald's employee went viral over the weekend—and collectively restored our hope in humanity—after paying for a customer's meal last Friday. Andrea Duncan, who took to Facebook to share the encounter, ordered at the Reading, OH, drive-thru before realizing she had left her wallet behind at work. When Duncan pulled up to the window and tried to cancel the meal, a Mickey D's team member offered to pick up her tab.
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High School Seniors Wake Up at 4am So They Can Shovel Neighbor’s Driveway Before Her Dialysis
Rather than sleeping in on a snow day, a group of high school students got together at 4:30AM so they could make sure that an elderly woman could get to her dialysis appointment. Brian and Patrick Lanigan are both students at Parsippany High School in New Jersey. They also live next to an older woman who relies on ambulance transportation to bring her to her dialysis treatments.
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Washington, D.C., restaurant provides free meals for the homeless
A restaurant owner is Washington, D.C., is feeding people for free. No judgement. No questions. If you can't pay, it's OK. Nicole Killion reports.
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Anger Can Be Contagious — Here's How To Stop The Spread
Emotions circulate through social networks — the good, bad and ugly. And these days, the feeling that seems most viral is anger. Sometimes it takes just one act of kindness to stop the vicious cycle.
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