Fairfax County police released body camera footage on Thursday of an officer fatally shooting a man having a mental health crisis last month in a home in McLean, Virginia. Aaron Lynch died after an officer shot him on Arbor Lane the night of July 7. He was 26. Lynch’s parents said the shooting was unjustified….
The Washington state government, in its second year of offering the nation’s first public option health insurance plan, has learned an important lesson: If you want hospitals to participate, you’re probably going to have to force them. David Ryder/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption David Ryder/Getty Images The Washington state government, in its second year…
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Treating COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit for the past 19 months often reminds Paul Fuller, a registered nurse in Wenatchee, of his time in the U.S. Army. Fuller began his nursing career as an Army medic and spent 14 months deployed to Iraq, he said Thursday evening in a panel with other nurses…