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Strained US Hospitals Seek Foreign Nurses Amid Visa Windfall
Many American hospitals are looking abroad for health care workers, saying they’re facing a dire shortage of nurses amid the slogging pandemic
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CDC Director Says ‘Milder Doesn't Mean Mild' as Covid Hospitalizations Reach Record High
“We cannot look past the strain on our health systems and substantial number of deaths,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
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Doctor Shares an Honest Look at Life Working in an ICU Right Now
Dr. Jason Chertoff tries to focus on the positive and why he got into the medical profession: to help people. But at the Ohio ICU where he works, morale is rapidly depleting as the unit again fills with COVID-19 patients – most of whom are unvaccinated. Chertoff says he’s tried to convince people to get their shots – meanwhile, staffing...
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Nurses Across Bay Area Demanding Safer Conditions During Day of Action
Nurses plan to demonstrate at nine Bay Area hospitals Thursday to demand safer working conditions from the hospital industry. Cierra Johnson reports.
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CVS Raises 2021 Forecast, Says Insurance Coverage of At-Home Covid Tests May Lift Drugstore Sales Further
CVS Health raised its full-year earnings outlook on Tuesday, saying Covid vaccines and at-home tests lifted retail sales.
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Facing Severe Shortages, US Health Officials Let COVID-Infected Staff Stay on the Job
Hospitals around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all.
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Omicron Up to 70% Less Likely to Cause Hospitalization Than Delta Variant, UK Government Study Finds
Of those admitted to hospital with omicron, 17 people had received their boosters, 74 were double vaccinated, and 27 were unvaccinated.
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Some Glimmers of Hope Are Emerging on Omicron, But Experts Stress Caution
Medical experts agree that even if symptoms are milder, the sheer volume and spread of omicron infections still poses a threat to health care systems.
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CVS CEO Karen Lynch Says Smash-And-Grab Robberies Fueled by Online Marketplaces
The health-care executive joined a growing number of executives who have expressed concern about the rise in organized crimes.
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CVS Says Sales Will Accelerate as It Offers More Health-Care Services, Builds on Pandemic Gains
CVS said it will provide more medical care at drugstores and people’s homes to make it easier and more affordable for customers to stay healthy.
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The Era of Surprise Medical Bills May Be Ending
Americans will soon be protected from many unexpected medical bills, thanks to a new law that goes into effect Jan. 1.
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Shelter-In-Place Lifted After Bomb Threat Locks Down Navy Base, Walter Reed Hospital Complex
Walter Reed is a sprawling military hospital which is used by presidents of the United States for treatment. The naval base there is on lockdown.
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Bill Clinton Back Home After Hospitalization From Infection
Bill Clinton has returned to his home in New York to continue recovering from an infection that left him in treatment for six days at a Southern California hospital.
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Hospitals Can Help With Medical Bills, But Advocates Say They Should Be Clearer on How
Patient advocates and some state governments say hospitals must do more to help patients deal with medical bills before the debt winds up in collections.
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San Diego Hospitals Face Staffing Shortages, Travel Nurses in High Demand
San Diego hospital leaders are reporting they are facing staffing shortages and are having to import talent from around the country to keep up their staff to patient ratios. While San Diego’s COVID-19 case rate is decreasing, hospital leaders here are still reporting having problems maintaining the staff they need to keep their hospitals running. “We’re less likely to...
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Unvaccinated Covid Patients Overwhelm Ohio Hospitals as Delta Surges Across State
“Throughout this pandemic, even in the worst of times, we were not seeing this many younger people under 50 going into our hospitals,” Ohio Gov. DeWine said.
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US Birth Rate May Be Rebounding From Pandemic Low, Report Says
While there has been a decline in births in the U.S. during the pandemic, a new report suggests the drop may have turned a corner last March as births started rebounding
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U.S. Covid Cases Finally Start to Dip From Latest Peak, But Delta Variant Still on the Rise in Some States
Covid case counts in the U.S. are showing signs of easing off their latest highs but remain elevated as the country heads into the fall season.
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China's Health-Care Sector Could Be Beijing's Next Regulatory Target, Analysts Say
China’s health-care sector will probably be the next to fall under scrutiny, analysts warn, as the country’s regulators crack down on everything from tech to education this year.
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Ida Vexes Louisiana Hospitals Brimming With Virus Patients
Southern Lousiana’s hospitals are packed with patients from the latest coronavirus surge.