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Minnesota health officials question New York travel restriction
New York on Tuesday added Minnesota to its COVID-19 travel restriction list, meaning that travelers from this state will need to fill out a disclosure form and quarantine themselves for 14 days upon arrival. The addition surprised Minnesota health leaders, because the state appears to be below New York’s announced threshold for travel restrictions. “We …
Fauci on public health advocacy: ‘You cannot be ideological’
Public health and politics have always been intertwined. Think abortion and reproductive rights. One prominent public health official appears to have managed to untwine the two: Anthony Fauci. During this time of Covid-19, health and medicine are more politically charged than they have ever been. Physicians’ and nurses’ heroic responses to the Covid-19 pandemic has …
Allegheny Health Network Announces Next Set Of Mobile Coronavirus Testing Sites – CBS Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Allegheny Health Network has announced the locations where its mobile Coronavirus testing lab will be available for visits during the upcoming week. AHN strongly encourages patients to make an appointment before arriving. The mobile testing lab will be operating from 10:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. at the following locations on the following …
US election: How the coronavirus pandemic is shaping health care politics in 2020
Many experts say the huge pool of uninsured people in these states compounds the challenge of coping with the outbreak in several different ways, from leaving a large number of residents with underlying conditions that increase their vulnerability to the disease to extending the outbreak’s spread by discouraging the uninsured from seeking early testing and …
Chicago Marathon Canceled Due to Health Concerns Over Coronavirus Pandemic – NBC Chicago
The Bank of America Chicago Marathon has been canceled for its 2020 race due to “the ongoing public health concerns brought on by the coronavirus pandemic,” organizers announced Monday. The race was set to step off on Oct. 11, but event organizers announced the decision “citing the challenges of staging an event of this scale …
A Health Worker Raised Alarms About the Coronavirus. Then He Lost His Job.
MILAN — In February, he said the directors of the nursing home where he worked kept him from wearing a mask, fearing it would scare patients and their families. In March, he became infected and spoke out about the coronavirus spreading through the home. In May, he was fired amid claims that he had “damaged …
Bottleneck for U.S. Coronavirus Response: The Fax Machine
“It’s $500 versus, literally, $5,000,” said Bob Kocher, a partner at the venture-capital firm Venrock, who has been helping California manage its coronavirus testing effort. In the early 2010s, the federal government spent billions to encourage doctors to replace fax machines with electronic records. That program, known as the HITECH Act, did not include similar …
Former Dallas Cowboy Darren Woodson Talks Racial Disparities in Health Care After Brother’s Death – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Former Dallas Cowboys safety Darren Woodson and the American Cancer Society have teamed up to shine a light on racial disparities in the fight against cancer. Woodson’s brother, Randy Luke, lost his battle with liver cancer in December of 2018. Woodson said he doesn’t want another family to go through a preventable illness like they …
‘There is a health crisis, but the mental well-being of everyone is so key’ – Glossy
For the latest edition of #LFH, our weekly Instagram Live series on how fashion and beauty brand founders are adjusting to leading from home, Glossy executive editor Priya Rao chatted with Walter Faulstroh, co-founder and CEO of Hum Nutrition. Joining us from his home in Los Angeles, Faulstroh shared how he is prioritizing mental health and …
DeSantis downplayed coronavirus help from New York after Florida health department praised it
Speaking to reporters last Thursday, DeSantis pointedly denied that New York was helping his state’s Covid-19 response, stating, “They’re not helping us.” “I think that someone reached out to our office about ventilators — we got 6,000 just sitting idle, so we don’t need it,” the governor added. “We are working with the federal government …
