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A Maine health care provider is seeing multiple COVID-19 cases among staff every day

January 8, 2022 Sharika Soukup

It is only six days into 2022, and the John F. Murphy Homes organization has seen an average of two new COVID-19-related staff absences a day. That may not seem like much in a company with 835 workers centralized in Auburn. But CEO Todd Goodwin said the compounding number of absences is enough to destabilize…

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Covid-19 pandemic lays bare healthcare inadequacies

January 5, 2022 Sharika Soukup

In the midst of an unprecedented crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Indian healthcare industry is undergoing a major transformation as its inadequacies and pitfalls came into the spotlight. At the same time, the pandemic has also paved the way for digital interventions that are likely to alter the healthcare landscape in 2022. The pandemic…

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Employer Health Plans Soon Must Pay for At-Home COVID-19 Tests

December 22, 2021 Sharika Soukup

Update: Government to Provide Free At-Home Tests On Dec. 21, President Joe Biden said that the federal government is purchasing 500 million at-home COVID-19 testing kits, to be sent free of charge to Americans who request them, and setting up new federal testing sites around the country to help states that need additional testing…

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Covid-19 patients at this hospital are dying ‘at a rate we’ve never seen die before’ — and it’s taking a toll on health care workers

December 20, 2021 Sharika Soukup

“I was really hoping that we’d (all) get vaccinated and things would be back to normal,” said Sefton, an assistant manager at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan. “We have more patients than we’ve ever had at any point, and we’re seeing more people die at a rate we’ve never seen die before,” said Jim Dover,…

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COVID-19 MCIR treatment option accepted for peer review | News

December 19, 2021 Sharika Soukup

WESTERN BUREAU: With the work done by his multinational research team being accepted for publication by an internationally recognised medical journal, Journal of Dentistry and Oral Sciences, senior lecturer in the Faculty of Science at The University of the West Indies, Dr Christopher Ogunsalu, is once again touting the research team’s Menthol Crystal Inhalation Regimen…

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Proposal puts unvaccinated people on the hook for COVID-19 health care costs

December 12, 2021 Sharika Soukup

Unvaccinated Illinoisans would have to pay for their health care expenses — including hospital bills — out of pocket if they contract COVID-19 under legislation filed Monday in the Illinois House. State Rep. Jonathan Carroll’s bill is likely to face legal challenges and political pushback, but the Northbrook Democrat downplayed those concerns, saying it all…

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How to get a free rapid COVID-19 test with health insurance

December 9, 2021 Sharika Soukup

It will soon cost nothing to take a rapid, at-home COVID-19 test available at pharmacies and stores, but you’ll still have to pay upfront and save your receipt. The White House last week announced private health insurance will cover the over-the-counter tests, with more details of the plan to come by Jan. 15, 2022. “More…

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Biden to announce COVID-19 at-home test insurance reimbursement, stricter testing for international travelers

December 5, 2021 Sharika Soukup

Americans with private health insurance will be reimbursed for at-home tests, President Biden announced Thursday, and international travelers will now be required to undergo stricter COVID-19 testing. The new measures the president announced at the National Institutes of Health are a part of a new administration strategy to curb the virus this winter, as the…

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