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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">ISL Faculty Affiliates — Neil Charness, Director of FSU’s Institute for Successful Longevity, cautions that COVID-19 remains a risk for older adults, in an article in the
<i>Tallahassee Democrat</i>: <a href="https://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/2022/06/05/older-adults-and-covid-still-risk-opinion/7490979001/">
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/2022/06/05/older-adults-and-covid-still-risk-opinion/7490979001/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">This article is a good example of the kind of informative pieces we would like to share with the public.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Toward that end, the Institute for Successful Longevity has established an avenue for getting articles in the
<i>Tallahassee Democrat</i>. Please consider drafting articles related to longevity that we can use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Articles should be short – 500 to 600 words — and written for a general audience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Send the draft to me at <a href="mailto:btedmond@fsu.edu">
btedmond@fsu.edu</a>, and I will work with the newspaper’s editors to get your article published.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bill Edmonds, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#782F40">Institute for Successful Longevity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#782F40">Florida State University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">850-933-7960<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:btedmond@fsu.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">btedmond@fsu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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