Sanders aide calls Manchin ‘phony’ on drug prices Tensions are heating up over action (or lack thereof) on drug pricing. A top aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday called Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) a “phony” after the West Virginia senator called for action to lower drug prices. Warren Gunnels, Sanders’s staff director for the Senate Budget…
Cofounders of the group Black Ladies In Nature took contributors of Upward push — a maternal psychological well being group that caters in particular to Black folks — on a stroll thru Blacklick Woods Metro Park in Reynoldsburg on July 24 as a part of Black Maternal Psychological Well being Week. About 15 folks stood in a…
Lincoln hosted its first mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic in several months Tuesday as cases have started to slowly rise both locally and statewide. Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Director Pat Lopez said she expected the department to give close to 4,000 shots over the two-day clinic scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday at Pinnacle Bank Arena. The clinic…
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(WXYZ) — Beaumont Health says health care is at “a breaking point” as the system is currently treating more than 750 COVID patients across eight of its hospitals. According to a press release from Beaumont, 62% of COVID patients are unvaccinated and they said they’ve seen a 40% increase in the number of COVID patients…
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There were 233 new COVID-19 cases reported in Douglas County Wednesday. With cases on the rise, local hospital systems are bracing for a wicked winter.”What we experienced last year with a sharp increase just before the holidays that carried through the holiday season,” said Ann Adler, Division Director of Infection Prevention with CHI Health.It may…