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Category: Public Health
California secures 200M masks per month; Massachusetts gives $800M to providers + 20 other updates from the 6 hardest-hit states
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Suicide rate jumps 35% since 1999: 4 things to know
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Physicians reconsider widespread ventilator use; DEA boosts production quotas for high-demand drugs — 5 COVID-19 updates
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Postcard From The Edge: L.A. Street Vendors Who Can’t Stop Working
Foot traffic in L.A. has fallen off a cliff amid the COVID-19 crisis, driving many street vendors away. But some are still on the streets, peddling their wares out of economic necessity. Many are undocumented immigrants who won’t get any help from the recently approved $2 trillion federal assistance package.
‘When It Starts Getting Into Your Local Hospital, It Becomes Real’
Located about 45 minutes from New Orleans in one of the hardest-hit counties nationally, the 25-bed rural St. James Parish Hospital has hunkered down as staffers became infected, patient intake numbers have doubled, and intubations have skyrocketed. This is what it looks like inside a rural hospital when COVID-19 hits.
Pandemic Delays Federal Probe Into Medicare Advantage Health Plans
Government officials want to focus on fighting COVID-19 instead of recouping overcharges that run into the millions.
51 recovered COVID-19 patients in South Korea retest positive
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COVID-19 may disproportionately affect African Americans
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Few children with COVID-19 are hospitalized, CDC finds
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