Patients with advanced cancer and heart disease are among those who have had to wait for surgeries and other procedures as critically ill, unvaccinated COVID patients strain the medical system.
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Data Mining Helped Medicare Advantage Plans Commit Fraud, Justice Department Alleges
In a civil suit filed this week, the Justice Department accuses a New York medical analytics company and two consultants of helping health plans for seniors cheat Medicare out of millions of dollars.
This Doctor Spread False Information About COVID. She Still Kept Her Medical License
Simone Gold isn’t alone. NPR found other physicians who retained their licenses despite spreading misinformation online and to the media about effective COVID-19 vaccines and unproven treatments.
A N.Y. Hospital Will Stop Delivering Babies As Workers Quit Over A Vaccine Mandate
Lewis County General Hospital in upstate New York is pausing maternity services later this month after dozens of staff members quit because they refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Idaho’s Hospitals Are Overwhelmed, But Many Locals Remain Skeptical Of Vaccines
At least 10 hospitals in the state started rationing care for everyone because they’re filled with COVID-19 patients. But there’s deep distrust of authority.
Yes, Gov. DeSantis, Studies Do Show Masks Curb Covid-19 In Schools
Several studies over the past year and a half have arrived at the same conclusion: mask wearing significantly limits transmission of the coronavirus in schools.
A Teen Called For Masks In School After His Grandma Died Of COVID. Adults Mocked Him
“If they laugh at me about a personal story about my grandmother, that’s just disrespectful, I feel,” Tennessee teenager Grady Knox reportedly said.
Black Opioid Overdose Deaths Increasing Faster Than Whites, Study Finds
Black communities are suffering a growing share of overdoses, while addiction treatment resources and attention are still focused on white communities.
Birth Control Will Soon Be Free For Many People In France Until They’re 25
All contraceptive methods were already free for girls up to 18 years old, and that is being expanded to all women up to 25. The health minister didn’t address contraception methods for men.
A Fire At A Field Hospital Set Up To Treat COVID-19 Patients Kills 14 People
The blaze broke out late Wednesday in the western city of Tetovo, where the hospital had been set up following a recent spike in infections in the region that left local hospitals full.
