内容摘要：Desk workers can squeeze in 15 minutes of chair yoga. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Desk workers can squeeze in 15 minutes of chair yoga. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

The other days the men attend therapy offsite or visit doctors in an effort to build their sobriety. Stable Recovery partners with an outpatient treatment program that provides classes and therapists and both sides keep in constant communication.At night, the men take turns making dinner for the group and then it’s lights out at 9 p.m.

Always waiting for them are the horses, their big dark eyes staring from their stalls. The animals are barometers for how their human handlers are feeling each day.“I think the horse is the most therapeutic animal in the world,” Taylor said. “There’s other animals like dogs that are very good, but there’s something about a horse, like Winston Churchill said, ‘The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man.’”New arrivals often have nothing to be proud of and are weary of being judged by their families, their communities and the legal system. They’re depressed, anxious, sometimes suicidal.

“Being around a horse early in recovery, it’s a difference-maker,” said Christian Countzler, CEO and co-founder of Stable Recovery who said he overcame his own addictions to alcohol and drugs.“Within days of being in a barn around a horse, he’s smiling, he’s laughing, he’s interacting with his peers. A guy that literally couldn’t pick his head up and look you in the eye is already doing better,” he said.

Kohari said he had been in and out of treatment since he was 18, failing numerous times to kick the lure of alcohol and then heroin, fentanyl and meth, before coming to Taylor Made Farm.

“I was just broken,” Kohari said. “I just wanted something different and the day I got in this barn and started working with the horses, I felt like they were healing my soul.”“If the vaccine were no longer available or covered by insurance, it will take the choice away from families who wish to protect their children from COVID-19, especially among families already facing barriers to care,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows more than 47,000 Americans died from COVID-related causes last year. The virus was the underlying cause for two-thirds of those and it was a contributing factor for the rest. Among them were 231 children whose deaths were deemed COVID-related, 134 of them where the virus was the direct cause -- numbers similar to yearly pediatric deaths from the flu.The new FDA approach is the culmination of a

under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.the use of COVID shots and raising questions about the broader availability of vaccines. It was released two days ahead of the first meeting of FDA’s outside vaccine experts under Trump.