Welcome to Wellness on Mass. I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire, and this is your weekly rundown.

Well, for all of you in the Northeast who had a blizzard earlier this week, hope everyone made it unscathed, didn't have any pipes bursting or any of those consequences that can happen with the freezing temperatures.

I personally had a wonderful time because I had all of my family home.

My husband was even home.

He didn't have to go in for an emergency surgery.

My oldest son came over, and we just had a family snow day.

And it was a lot of cooking.

It was a lot of board games and then we went

out and played in the snow. I was happy as can be because my happy place is being home

surrounded by my family and I certainly got that. I hope you were able to get some quality

time with your family too, with the snow or wherever you are. So what's been going on this

week?

Well, I can tell you one thing that I was keeping my eye on is the Senate confirmation hearing

for Dr. Casey Means for the role of Surgeon General.

She is the current President Trump nominee for Surgeon General.

Quick recap for those not up to date.

She is the second nomination, the first nomination for

Surgeon General last year, President Trump withdrew the nomination. That was Dr. Jeanette Nashwat.

Who I knew was a friend and colleague from Fox News. She's a lovely person inside and out. She does

a lot of volunteer work, but her nomination was withdrawn, and in her place

was put Dr. Casey Means, who is the sister of Callie Means, who is a White House advisor.

So I did watch the Senate confirmation hearing. Leading up to the confirmation hearing, there was some buzz, you know, the usual buzz whenever

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