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COVID-19
Big investors push nursing homes to upgrade care and working conditions
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Responsible for 34% of the nation’s covid death toll, nursing homes and long-term care facilities get slammed by their investors and are told to change.COVID-19
Time to say goodbye to some insurers’ waivers for covid treatment fees
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Insurers voluntarily set the charges aside earlier in the pandemic — but that means those same health plans can decide to reinstate them.California
California is offering no-cost rapid COVID testing and staff training to schools
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The state bought 5 million test kits, which can produce results in 15 minutes, and will provide them at no charge and teach how to use them.California
‘We’re coming for you’: for public health officials, a year of threats and menace
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Local health officials have become the face of government authority as they work to stem the pandemic. That has made them targets for chilling threats from some of the same militia groups that stormed the U.S. Capitol.Bay Area
Pandemic has college students wanting to study abroad in limbo
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Time marches on for college students hoping to put in time studying abroad, with plans for many still on hold more than a year after the pandemic began.California
California’s state universities want a vaccine mandate for the fall
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The requirements could affect more than 1 million students and staff, but will only take effect if the FDA gives full approval to a vaccine.berkeley
State’s ‘MyTurn’ website bypassed for most vaccine appointments
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Billed as a one-stop shop, California’s $50 million site has instead created nonstop problems. Only 27% of vaccinations booked each day use MyTurn.COVID-19
Doctors scramble to understand long covid, but causes and prognosis are elusive
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Medical experts are struggling to define or explain the lingering, debilitating symptoms some covid patients experience. Part of the problem is the wide range of symptoms.City
