Health Highlights: Oct. 23, 2009

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FLU TUTORS make Internet house calls.
TeleCommuting Internet Tutors help kids kept home
for a cough or sneeze keep up with missed schoolwork.
The H1N1 Swine Flu scare is infecting the education of every kid in the country who has to stay home because of showing any cold symptoms at all.
Parents are not only burdened with the fear of the dreaded flu affecting their kids -- but with the anxiety that their kids will be falling behind in school.
Flu Tutors needed. TeleCommuting Flu Tutors make house calls over the Internet to come to the aid of the education victims the Flu is claiming.
TeleCommuting Tutors assist kids from Internet programs that let them work virtually side-by-side with students. No germs transfered -- just classwork help. Most kids gladly absorb a daily dose of computer program material -- online tutoring is just a little more serious computer game. With permission from parents, TeleCommuting Tutors can find out from the children's schools what class work the students are missing and what they need to stay ahead.
Job Seekers who have college or teaching degrees can join tutoring companies to get tutor certification and screening, which will allow them to reach out to community parents with trust.
And parents can locate the most highly-rated tutor companies. There are online tutor companies that can be employed for as little as an hour's time to keep kids on track till their symptoms clear and they can get back to class.
Job seekers can apply for online tutor jobs and parents can get detailed directions on how to determine the best-qualified tutors at http://www.tjobs.com, the Telecommuting Jobs website that has provided work at home TeleCommuting resources for job seekers and employers since 1996.
Chalk up another important benefit TeleCommuters provide: virtual Flu Tutors.

Sol Levine of IL 7:07PM November 24, 2009

Please check out A.D.A.M., Inc.'s feelingflu.com. The health information provider has a lot of good resources for those in high risk groups, is holding an online chat on swine flu in early November (check the web site for details in the next few days) and has an assessment tool that can help you figure out what your symptoms mean, if you or your family should be vaccinated and waht to do next.

Aimee of MD 9:32PM October 23, 2009

H1N1 is rampant. On the west coast, in one town, over thirty 33 percent of the students of a high school and their staff, were home due to influenza. A seven year old child died and there is NO vaccine available for weeks. Remember the past when individuals were upset with President Bush because the vaccine for bird flu wasn't TOTALLY ready ahead of time. The Secretary of Health hopped on board with preparations. With this administration, they have been quiet, while children and the elderly are dying and vaccines are not available for weeks. Obama has appeared on television comedy talk shows and his staff are spending their time engaging in adolescent bickering with media organizations while the citizens of this country are dying, public health agencies don't have the funding or the resources for vaccines and our soldiers are dying while waiting for backup in Afghanistan... Perhaps the President could curb his narcissistic ways for a few weeks and instead of traveling to media events, could hasten his "plan" on Afghanistan which he states will come out in a few weeks (after the election of course) and work on getting vaccine for Americans.

Linda of CA 2:16PM October 23, 2009