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Essential workers during pandemic did not get enough information to protect their health--study

Wed, 2023-03-01 10:11 — mike kraft

Covid-19 surveillance added new burdens on essential workers — and gave them little data to protect their health Surveillance technologies deployed during the Covid-19 pandemic added new burdens on essential workers — and gave them little data to protect their health. Ambar Castillo STAT

At the peak of the pandemic, essential workers faced rampant tech-based surveillance, from overhead infrared thermometers to wearables that tracked their proximity to one another.

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Opinion: Their boards may be a reason that many nonprofit hospitals are failing Americans

Tue, 2023-02-28 10:37 — mike kraft

Nonprofit hospitals are failing Americans. Their boards may be a reason why The composition of the boards of nonprofit hospitals may contribute to the gap between rhetoric and reality with respect to health equity. Patrick Skerrett STAT

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Cholera outbreak hits northeastern Syria in aftermath of earthquake.

Tue, 2023-02-28 09:47 — mike kraft

Twenty-two people died in cholera outbreak post-quake in northwest Syria -civil defence The Syrian opposition-run civil defence said on Tuesday 22 people had died from an outbreak of cholera in the northwestern region in the aftermath of the devastating quake that hit Turkey and Syria. Reuters Reuters

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Florida Surgeon General Joe Ladapo investigated for allegedly falsifying Covid report but case closed

Thu, 2023-02-23 11:07 — mike kraft

Florida Surgeon General Joe Ladapo investigated for allegedly falsifying Covid report The Florida Department of Health's inspector general closed the probe after the complainant wouldn't provide further information. POLITICO

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There are at least 500 coronaviruses. Researchers unveil roadmap to develop a new broad vaccine

Tue, 2023-02-21 10:32 — mike kraft

There are at least 500 coronaviruses. We must develop next-gen vaccines now, experts say. Is the world ready to combat future coronaviruses? Researchers with the Gates and Rockefeller foundations lay out a roadmap for new vaccines. YahooNews

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How the COVID pandemic has irreversibly changed American and other health care systems

Tue, 2023-02-21 09:49 — mike kraft

The pandemic has irreversibly changed America’s health care system. Here’s why we will all be feeling the consequences of delayed care for years to come Elective surgery delays can be detrimental in both preventive and curative care, allowing disease progression or leading to premature death. YahooFinance

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Inspector general report says FEMA's wasted money in COVID emergency efforts to fly in PPE equipment

Mon, 2023-02-20 10:34 — mike kraft

OIG Finds Failings with Project Airbridge, FEMA’s COVID-19 Response - HS Today OIG said the project’s $238 million may have been better spent on other COVID-19 initiatives. OIG said the project’s $238 million may have been better spent on other COVID-19 initiatives. Kylie Bielby Hstoday

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Health care vaccine mandate remains as some push for an end

Mon, 2023-02-20 10:13 — mike kraft

Health care vaccine mandate remains as some push for an end LOWRY CITY, Mo. (AP) — At Truman Lake Manor in rural Missouri, every day begins the same way for every employee entering the nursing home's doors — with a swab up the nose, a swirl of testing solution and a brief wait to see whether a thin red line appears indicating a positive COVID-19 case. AP NEWS

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U.S. nursing home residents still lag in getting Covid booster shots

Wed, 2023-02-15 10:06 — mike kraft

Three years into the pandemic, nursing home residents are still in Covid’s crosshairs (msn.com)

Federal health agencies worked to get more nursing home residents and staff to take the latest Covid booster all winter, creating social media hashtags, putting money into vaccine hotlines and flagging the worst performing facilities to states.

But their decision to scale back on two vaccine interventions that were critical in getting residents and staff protected from Covid during the first vaccine rollout in late 2020 and 2021 has left the job mostly to facilities, resident advocates say, with disappointing results.

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Stop-and-go federal funding floods public health agencies with cash during crises but starves them of funds afterward.

Mon, 2023-02-13 09:08 — mike kraft

JACKSON, Miss. — When the coronavirus first scythed through the nation in early 2020, few places needed help fighting it more than Scott County, Miss., a rural patch of chicken processing plants and pine forests an hour east of the state capital, Jackson.

The poverty rate for the county’s 28,000 residents was far above the nation’s. So, too, were rates of diabetes and other chronic illnesses that worsen the risk of severe Covid-19. Yet Mississippi’s health department, struggling under huge budget cuts ordered by the state’s Legislature, had deployed just two nurse practitioners to cover a quarter-million residents in Scott and eight other counties.

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