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African American and Latinx youth were twice as likely to be living with undiagnosed chronic fatigue syndrome, according to new research from DePaul University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

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Most youth living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) have not been diagnosed, according to a new prevalence study from researchers at DePaul University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, published by the journal Child & Youth Care Forum. Leonard A. Jason, a professor of psychology at DePaul University, led the seven-year study to screen more than 10,000 children and teenagers in the Chicago area. SEE PAGE 2

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Study finds many youth living with undiagnosed chronic fatigue syndrome Continued from page 1 Most youth living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/ CFS) have not been diagnosed, according to a new prevalence study from researchers at DePaul University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, published by the journal Child & Youth Care Forum.

Leonard A. Jason, a professor of psychology at DePaul University, led the seven-year study to screen more than 10,000 children and teenagers in the Chicago area.

The researchers found that less than 5% of youth in the study who tested positive for ME/CFS had been previously diagnosed with the illness. Of the children assessed, African American and Latinx youth were twice as likely to be living with undiagnosed ME/CFS. The study was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, one of the National Institutes of Health. Jason has been studying ME/CFS for more than 30 years and says the illness can affect all aspects of a child’s life, from physical functioning to attending school and participating in extracurricular activities.

“When you’re talking about a condition that’s as debilitating as this one, the health care response has not been good,” said Jason.

“There aren’t that many physicians who are trained and skilled at diagnosing and treating this illness, and our health care system has not done a great job at trying to help people who are affected,” said Jason, director of DePaul’s Center for Community Research.

Working with Jason as co-principal investigator is Dr. Ben Z. Katz, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Katz is also a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He has collaborated with Jason and his group since the late 1990s.

“Our finding that most youth with ME/CFS have not been previously diagnosed is comparable to findings in adults,” said Katz. “We definitely need better ways to identify people with this illness and to develop effective interventions for them. In particular, we need to reach African American and Hispanic youth, since in our study these groups had higher prevalence of ME/CFS. ” The prevalence of pediatric ME/CFS has been in dispute, so Jason and Katz set out to include a diverse sample of ethnic, socio-economic and demographic backgrounds. Other ME/CFS prevalence studies have drawn from tertiary care centers, which can exclude those without access to health care, explained Jason.

The researchers tailored their approach by including a thorough medical and psychiatric examination, offering access to high-quality screening for those at-risk of having the illness.

Researchers screened a random sample of 10,119 youth ages 5-17 from 5,622 households. The first stage was a phone interview with parents and caretakers about the health and behavior of their children and teens.

Missing school because of fatigue was one of the common symptoms among youth who showed a higher risk of having ME/CFS, and

Leonard A. Jason is a DePaul University psychology professor who has studied chronic fatigue syndrome primarily in adults for the past 30 years. He also is director of the Center for Community Research in DePaul’s College of Science and Health. DePaul University/Jamie Moncrief

was a red flag for parents, said Jason.

Of those who screened positive over the phone, 165 youth went on to medical and psychiatric examinations. Following evaluations, a team of physicians made final diagnoses.

Youth were given a diagnosis of ME/CFS if they met criteria for case definitions. Of the 42 youth diagnosed with ME/CFS, only 2 (4.8%) had been previously diagnosed with the illness.

Prevalence of pediatric ME/CFS was 0.75%, which is a bit less than 1%, with a higher prev-

alence among African American and Latinx youth compared to their Caucasian peers.

“Clearly people of color do get this illness, and there are some myths that you have to be white middle class to have ME/CFS,” said Jason.

A lack of access to health care, and therefore less opportunity for an earlier diagnosis, could explain this racial disparity, according to Jason. “There are barriers to researchers gaining access to underserved populations.

They may not trust institutions as easily, and they may not also have time to bring their children into appointments,” said Jason.

And, there is still stigma and misunderstanding about ME/CFS among health care providers. “They may not believe this is a condition, or might attribute it to fatigue,” said Jason.

The findings point to the need for better ways to identify and diagnose youth with this illness, said Jason, who has secured more than $46 million in research grant support during his 45-year professional career at DePaul.

Co-authors of the study are DePaul University graduate students Madison Sunnquist, Chelsea Torres, Joseph Cotler and Shaun Bhatia.

“We’re trying to help people who have this illness have information that could be used to argue for more resources for diagnosis and treatment,” said Jason.

The study, “The Prevalence of Pediatric Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in a Community-Based Sample,” was supported under award number R01 HD072208.

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Don’t be fooled – most independents are partisans too

BY CHRISTOPHER DEVINE

Will Donald Trump win reelection in 2020? To find out, you’d think you could just look up whether more Americans are registered as Republicans than Democrats.

But the truth is, it doesn’t really matter which party you register with on paper. Besides, 19 states don’t even register voters by party.

What really matters is what political scientists like myself call your “political identity” – your psychological attachment to a political group, such as a party or an ideological movement.

That’s why political science surveys ask people, “Generally speaking, do you think of yourself as a Republican, a Democrat, an independent, or what?”

This question aims to find out how you see yourself – essentially, which team are you on? This is how many people make sense of the political world.

American independents?

According to the Gallup polling

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firm, the identity that people choose most often is actually “independent” – not Democratic or Republican. In 2019, 42% of Americans chose this label – up from the low 30s just 15 years earlier, in 2004.

However, three-quarters of these “independents” admit, when asked, that they lean toward favoring the Democratic or Republican Party.

Judging by how they vote or what they think of national political lead-

ers, the truth is that these “leaners” really are partisans rather than independents. Apparently, many people who like to think of themselves as independent-minded and free of party influence aren’t.

So, why call themselves independents? Typically, according to one leading study, it is “not because they disagree with the parties ideologically or politically but because being a party member is embarrassing.”

In fact, only about 10% of Americans are what political scientists call “pure independents” – that is, people who identify as independents and claim not to favor either of the two major parties. Nor has that percentage grown in recent years. This means that the vast majority of Americans – consistently around 90% – are partisans, whether they like to admit it or not.

So, which party do more Americans identify with – Democratic or Republican?

The Democratic Party, usually.

According to the Gallup poll in late 2019, 47% of Americans

either called themselves Democrats or admitted leaning toward the Democratic Party, versus 42% for Republicans and 11% independents.

However, there are some signs that Republicans gained ground on Democrats in recent months.

Historically speaking, there have always been more Democrats than Republicans in the American electorate – with rare and very brief exceptions – ever since Gallup began polling party identification in the 1930s.

But identifying with a party is not the same as voting for it. Self-identified Democrats are less likely than Republicans to turn out to vote – particularly in midterm elections.

This is because young people and other Democratic constituencies tend to be more engaged by the spectacle of a presidential election.

That should be good news for Democrats this year - since, in the 2018 midterms, they won back the House of Representatives. It figures that Democrats would be even more energized to defeat Donald Trump

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at the polls in 2020. Right?

Not so fast. Recently, Gallup asked Americans whether they are more enthusiastic about voting in 2020 than in previous elections. As it turns out, Republicans are just as enthusiastic about voting as Democrats. This is unusual. In previous elections, the party out of power always expressed more enthusiasm.

But not this time. In 2020, partisans on both sides are highly energized.

The good news for Democrats is that there may be more of them to mobilize in 2020 than there are Republicans. The bad news is that Republicans are united behind President Trump – and ready to vote.

Will Democrats nominate a presidential candidate who can fire up their party’s base, too? Chances are, that will matter more than winning over the small slice of American voters who don’t identify with either party.

Christopher Devine is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Dayton.

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Gov. Pritzker Signs Executive Order to Fight Opioid Crisis and Reduce Racial Disparities Building on the state’s commitment to address the opioid crisis, Governor Pritzker recently signed Executive Order 2020-02 to better address racial disparities in responding to the opioid crisis by establishing the Governor’s Opioid Overdose Prevention and Recovery Steering Committee.

Illinois is also dedicating $4.1 million state dollars to expand recovery and prevention services for individuals with opioid use disorder in all corners of the state.

This year, Illinois saw the first decrease in five years in opioid overdose deaths. Despite this decrease, opioid overdose deaths among white residents in Illinois decreased 7% in 2018 while deaths among African Americans increased 9.1% and deaths among Latinos increased by 4.3%.

“This executive order begins an effort to achieve social equity as we work to end the opioid crisis in Illinois,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “We will coordinate innovative, evidence-based ap-

proaches in partnership with harm-reduction organizations, establish local systems of care in disproportionately impacted communities, and create a comprehensive statewide opioid plan.

I’m equally proud to announce that my administration is increasing our state investment in this fight by over $4 million in this fiscal year. Illinois has made great strides in responding to the opioid crisis that has swept the nation, but our work won’t be done until all our residents have the opportunity to live their most fulfilling lives.”

The Governor’s Office in conjunction with the state’s Opioid Crisis Response Advisory Council will create an Opioid Social Equity Committee to make policy recommendations regarding how to address social and racial disparities in the opioid crisis response.

They will also establish local recovery-oriented systems of care councils in communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the crisis in order to reach out to and engage individuals

in all stages of recovery.

The Executive Order also focuses on harm reduction strategies that promote safer use of opioids to save lives. These strategies will help reduce both the risks of infectious HIV, HCV and Hepatitis A and fatal overdoses.

This includes supervised consumption sites, where individuals with opioid use disorder are under the supervision of trained staff with the goal of ensuring the safety of both the individual and the general public.

Last year Governor Pritzker signed the Overdose Prevention and Harm Reduction Act (PA101-0356), which also focuses on harm reduction and allows for the establishment and operation of a needle and hypodermic syringe access program or syringe services programs to help prevent the spread of infection and disease. An additional $500,000 will be invested in the syringe services programs.

Saving lives through safer use is an important component of the state’s

overall strategy, but the ultimate goal is to connect people with the treatment they need to fully recover. The administration will invest $550,000 to encourage doctors to prescribe medication assisted treatment (MAT) for individuals with opioid use disorder.

Another $2.75 million will be invested in overdose prevention. This includes investments in the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to ensure that first responders and treatment providers can respond in real time when there is a spike in overdoses in a community. This response will include overdose prevention training, local public awareness messages, and the purchase of 50,000 doses of naloxone to put directly in the hands of community residents.

To increase transparency and accessibility of resources, the state will also create a comprehensive online repository that streamlines and makes available all opioid use disorder prevention, treatment and recovery resources.

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Ella Fitzgerald’s Duets with Pianists Compiled for the First Time Ella Fitzgerald was masterful in any musical dition of “Somewhere In The Night” with format, but there was something especially pianist Tommy Flanagan live at the French luminous about her singing alone with a piaRiviera which was later issued on the 1964 no. This was clear when pianist Ellis Larkins live album, Ella at Juan-Les-Pins. Fitzgerald’s was first asked to work with her for her 1950 final major collaboration with a piano player album, Ella Sings Gershwin. “Larkins said he was Ella and Oscar, a 1975 duet with the strongly believed that piano accompaniment revered Oscar Peterson, who she had worked alone would best serve the singwith on and off for more than THE COMPLETE er’s extraordinary talents,” NPR two decades.

PIANO DUETS wrote in 2008.

For the first time ever, all of SEQUENCES EACH “She just loved singing with Fitzgerald’s captivating collabTRACK IN THE Ellis,” producer Milt Gabler said orations with pianists on the CHRONOLOGICAL in 1990. The result was a delicacy labels Decca, Verve, and Pablo, ORDER IT WAS of 1950s vocal jazz, revealing that have been collected together RECORDED Fitzgerald—a three-octave dynaas The Complete Piano Duets, IN, FORMING mo—was just as brilliant without which will be released March 13 A MINIATURE any bells and whistles. as a 2CD and digital collection CRASH COURSE The Gershwin album did via Verve Records/UMe. The ON FITZGERALD’S so well that Fitzgerald reunitdouble album includes detailed VARIOUS ERAS. ed with Larkins for a second liner notes by noted author and voice-and-piano album in 1954, Songs In A music critic Will Friedwald. Pre-order The Mellow Mood, which consisted of a variety of Complete Piano Duets now: https://UMe.lnk. iconic Great American Songbook standards. to/CompletePianoDuets Fitzgerald found massive success with her The Complete Piano Duets sequences each signature series of lush, orchestral Song Book track in the chronological order it was rereleases, but throughout her long and illustricorded in, forming a miniature crash course ous career, she would occasionally return to on Fitzgerald’s various eras. You can drop in the intimate format of just voice and piano. on her early sessions with Larkins (“SomeWhile she peppered 1956’s Ella Fitzgerald one To Watch Over Me,” “But Not For Me,” Sings The Cole Porter Song Book and 1957’s “I’ve Got a Crush On You,”) hear her and Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Paul Smith tackle Cole Porter (“Miss Otis Book with a couple piano duets, 1960’s Ella Regrets”) and music from the gritty 1960 Fitzgerald Sings Songs From Let No Man crime drama Let No Man Write My Epitaph Write My Epitaph, featuring songs from the (“Black Coffee,” “Angel Eyes,” “I Cried For film she appeared in as a pianist-singer, was You”), drop in on her and Tommy Flanagan her third full album accompanied only by at a 1964 French gig (“Somewhere In The piano, this time played by Paul Smith.

Night”) and revisit inspired 1975 duets with In 1964, she performed a ravishing renOscar Peterson from the third act of her

For the first time ever, all of Ella Fitzgerald’s captivating collaborations with pianists on the labels Decca, Verve, and Pablo, have been collected together as ‘The Complete Piano Duets,’ which will be released March 13 as a 2CD and digital collection via Verve Records/UMe.

career (“Mean to Me,” “How Long Has This Been Going On?,” “April In Paris”).

As Friedwald writes in the liner notes, “Fitzgerald was so great at everything–especially scatting and swinging–that it tended to overshadow her ballad singing. Yet, as any one of the 43 tracks on this collection makes clear, Ella Fitzgerald was a nonpareil singer of love songs, a balladeer par excellence. Like her closest colleagues, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and Billie Holiday, Fitzgerald could get deep into not just the words but the inner meaning of a song and bring out the profound truths that the lyricist

had in mind all along.”

Sometimes, as on Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book and Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book, her sparer recordings were sandwiched between big band and orchestral work. Now, for the first time ever, all of Fitzgerald’s exquisite piano duets have been assembled on one program. Whether you’re a fan of vocal jazz, solo piano or American popular song in general, The Complete Piano Duets is a musthave document of a masterful interpreter— raw, intimate, vulnerable, and oftentimes at her very best.

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Over $1.25 Million Pledged to Australian Bushfire Disaster Recovery Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) recently announced that the corporation’s philanthropic arm, Carnival Foundation, and five of its global cruise line brands together with the Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation have collectively pledged over US$1.25 million to support disaster recovery efforts from raging bushfires causing widespread devastation throughout Australia.

The pledge includes US$1 million from the family foundation of Carnival Corporation’s Chairman Micky Arison and his wife Madeleine, in addition to US$250,000

(AU$350,000) from Carnival Foundation and five of the company’s brands – P&O Cruises (Australia), Carnival Cruise Line, Cunard, Holland America Line and Princess Cruises. All five brands have ships based year-round in Australia or homeport seasonally in the country.

Similar to donations following recent hurricanes and typhoons, support is being directed to both immediate and long-term relief efforts. Based on input from local

officials and community leaders, the US$1 million donation will be provided to support the most timely and urgent relief needs throughout the country.

As previously announced, the US$250,000 donation has been committed to the Australian Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery Fund.

“Our cruise lines carried hundreds of thousands of Aussies and international guests on voyages this summer, and this gesture is a sign of our solidarity with the local community,” said Sture Myrmell, president of Carnival Australia, which comprises several of the

corporation’s brands operating in the country. “As a cruise shipping organization with close ties to Australian communities developed over many years, we have been shocked by the devastation from this ongoing disaster. Our cruise lines are contributing to the Australian Red Cross’ Disaster Relief and Recovery work because of the organization’s experience in dealing with the effects of natural disasters and its national reach.”

Myrmell added, “Communities affected by the bushfire crisis are in immediate need, and we are pleased to be able to contribute in a way that ensures help can be delivered where

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it is needed most and as quickly as possible. This contribution is being made on behalf of all of our guests who are no doubt equally shocked and concerned at what has happened to their fellow Australians.”

The company’s commitment follows the combined AU$50,000 donation from P&O Cruises (Australia) and its guests to the St Vincent de Paul Society in late 2019 to support residents of New South Wales and Queensland impacted by the local bushfires at that time.

Information on the Australian Red Cross, its recovery efforts and ways to provide support can be found at https://www.redcross.org.au/.

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Funding Opportunity: Healthy Relationships Community Grants Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) recently announced a $3 million commitment to the “Healthy Relationships Community Grant,” a joint initiative to provide funding in 2020 and 2021 to organizations that advocate for positive relationship practices through critical services for vulnerable populations and those affected by domestic violence, including relationship management skills for the next generation, programs focused on mental health resiliency among vulnerable populations, and critical career & personal services to survivors of domestic violence.

U.S.-based nonprofit and global non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can apply for localized support at MLB.com/HealthyRelationships and MLBPLAYERS.com/ HealthyRelationships throughout the year, with proposals reviewed on a quarterly grant cycle.

Nonprofits and NGOs may apply

for grants of up to $50,000 for general operating or programmatic funding for one or more of the following categories: Healthy Relationship Practices/Education, Support for Survivors of Domestic Violence, and/or Mental Health Resiliency.

Grant applications will be evaluated quarterly based on assessment of the population served, organization strength, impact, partnerships, sustainability of the programs, and more.

Additionally, MLB Club charities and Major League Players are encouraged to apply for up to $25,000 as part of a gift matching component of the initiative, with grant evaluations based on documentation of direct funding and commitment to the issue.

“This program will support

deserving organizations working to build and improve the mental health resiliency and relationship skills of those they serve, with a particular focus on youth, and to provide critical services to help domestic violence survivors rebuild their lives,” said Melanie LeGrande, vice president of social responsibility, Major League Baseball. “This effort reflects Baseball’s desire to invest in strategies that can help change the statistics and norms around domestic violence as well as support those who need help and assistance today.”

“Our players are committed to supporting and promoting healthy relationships,” said Leonor Colón, the MLBPA’s senior director of international and domestic player operations.

“This initiative will allow us to support organizations that raise awareness of domestic violence, assist survivors and promote mental wellness.”

Empowering the next generation to understand the components of a healthy relationship is intended as

a prevention strategy through this initiative. Organizational efforts supported by grant funding may include public education, with a preference for youth populations, on the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships as it relates to interpersonal violence (e.g., intimate partner, family or teen dating).

Examples of education efforts include creating, producing & distributing public service announcements with relevant content and call to action as well as conferences or events focusing on awareness.

Funding can also go toward supporting existing, or introducing new, programming on how to break the cycle of violence.

Efforts toward building and improving mental health resiliency for vulnerable populations may include providing greater access to (a) quality mental health services and wellness programs; (b) preventative programs designed to reduce suicide, suicidal ideations and self-harm; (c)

Raoul, 23 Attorneys General File Amicus Brief with Supreme Court Supporting Courts’ Ability to Require Fraudulent Actors to Turn Over Illegal Profits Attorney General Kwame Raoul, leading a bipartisan coalition of 24 attorneys general, recently filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court arguing that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should be allowed to ask courts to require defendants to return money obtained by defrauding investors. The brief, filed in

Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission, argues that disgorgement, requiring bad actors to return their gains, is critical to redressing harm and deterring future misconduct. According to a press release, in fiscal year 2019, fraudulent actors were ordered to repay more than $3.2 billion in enforcement actions brought by the SEC.

“Individuals who defraud investors should not be able to keep the profits they obtain by breaking the law,” Raoul said. “The SEC’s ability to ask courts to force wrongdoers to repay stolen money not only holds defendants fully accountable, but it also serves as a powerful deterrent to those who would seek to engage in securities fraud.”

The News Literacy Project partners with The E.W. Scripps Company The News Literacy Project (NLP) recently partnered with The E.W. Scripps Company where they launched a national public awareness campaign on the importance of news literacy and the role of the free press in American democracy.

The campaign, which culminated during National News Literacy Week, Jan. 27-31, ran across Scripps’ local broadcast stations, national media businesses and with other journalism media partners.

“News literacy education helps

young people become active participants in their communities,” said Alan C. Miller, NLP’s founder and CEO. “This generation is inheriting the most challenging and complex information landscape in human history, and it is incum-

bent upon us to ensure they know how to navigate it effectively. And once they’re taught, they develop critical-thinking skills and habits of mind that will last them a lifetime and benefit the communities where they live.”

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training programs for mental health professionals; or (d) school or community-based interventions.

Strengthening and providing services to survivors of domestic violence is of critical importance to this grant initiative. Efforts may include (a) capacity building in support of the organizational mission of the nonprofit or NGO; (b) mental health support; (c) professional and life skills workshops as well as additional education and materials to improve employee readiness and workplace development; or (d) advocacy efforts to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

The joint donation for the “Healthy Relationships Community Grant” represents an ongoing commitment by MLB and the MLBPA to provide support to causes that assist vulnerable populations, which has historically included financial assistance toward disaster relief and recovery as well as human trafficking prevention.

New app from US Med-Equip supports healthcare providers Bracing for the peak of flu season, hospitals now have a new app to ensure they have the medical devices needed. Healthcare providers are securing medical equipment at a moment’s notice from US Med-Equip (USME) to treat the surge of patients in their care. US Med-Equip’s mobile app gives hospital staff the ability to quickly view and rent equipment 24/7, based on the influx of patients in their care at any moment.

“Whether treating patients during the flu outbreak or following a disaster, the demands on hospitals are like they’ve never been before. Healthcare providers are streamlining processes and turning to smarter options to ensure they provide patients the best care possible,” US Med-Equip President Gurmit Singh Bhatia said. “We are working around the clock to provide a faster-than-ever response time so medical staff can focus on their life-saving work.”

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