[ad_1] WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — More than 1,000 staff members in the state’s largest school district are in quarantine because of COVID-19, but currently all Wichita schools are open. The Wichita Eagle reports that district records show that nearly 14% of the school district’s staff — some 1,033 people — were off because of COVID-19 […]
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[ad_1] A military medical team is coming to Maryland to support health care workers treating COVID-19 patients. A military medical team is coming to Maryland to support health care workers treating COVID-19 patients. The 40-person team from the U.S. Navy will help at the Adventist HealthCare Alternate Care Site in Takoma Park. This comes at […]
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[ad_1] The large COVID-19 testing outfit at the center of a federal investigation will “wind down” its operations and lay off 150 employees, the company said Friday afternoon. Illinois-based Center for COVID Control has been the subject of an NBC Bay Area investigation for several weeks now. A statement from the company said one of […]
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[ad_1] The doors are all closed on 3C. Every patient in the pulmonary unit at St. Elizabeth-Edgewood Hospital has COVID-19. Every day and often into the night, Melissa Schumacher, the unit’s nurse manager, is texting, emailing, calling nurses, even nurses whose usual job is education or quality control or informatics, asking them to take shifts […]
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[ad_1] BRASILIA, Brazil — The coronavirus‘ omicron variant starting to barrel across South America is pressuring hospitals whose employees are taking sick leave, leaving facilities understaffed to cope with COVID-19′s third wave. A major hospital in Bolivia’s largest city stopped admitting new patients due to lack of personnel, and one of Brazil’s most populous states […]
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[ad_1] After Nikolas Vagenas, a bartender at Apotheke in Chinatown and Bar Meridian in Brooklyn, tested positive for the virus in mid-December, he tried to apply for unemployment benefits both over the phone and online. The website “was supercomplicated,” he said. “I called them and waited on the phone, and they said I didn’t qualify.” […]
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