Headline News Archive

2021

March

02

• High turnover at nursing homes poses risks for residents. A new study highlights the persistent problems caused by an unstable work force, an underlying threat that may have led to staggering death tolls in

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• CDC signs off on Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday formally accepted the recommendation from its advisory panel that Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine

February

27

• Forged documents add another headache to COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Next month, up to 6 million more Californians with disabilities and underlying health conditions will qualify for inoculations. The state has yet to determine what type

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• Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine works well and may curb virus spread. The coronavirus vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson provides strong protection against severe disease and death from Covid-19, and may reduce the spread of the

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• Your car insurer may be using pre-pandemic mileage to set 2021 rates. A former LAPD detective discovered that his car insurer had quadrupled his pandemic mileage estimate to justify a rate increase.

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• Airbnb is driving hosts elsewhere with costly pandemic policies. While there had always been tensions between Airbnb and its four million hosts around the world, a rift has widened in the pandemic after the

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• Tips for hunting vaccine appointments online. How tech-savvy Post readers are nabbing scarce coronavirus shots for themselves — and their neighbors

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• Send parents money. The United States government helps parents in a few ways — but none of the benefits are simple to get, or available to everyone. The

• Her COVID-19 treatment cost more than $1 million. Who’s going to pay for it?. The most serious cases of COVID-19 don’t just attack a patient’s body, leading to pneumonia, respiratory failure, septic shock, blood clots,

• FHFA extends mortgage forbearance for up to 15 months. Borrowers with mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may be eligible for an additional forbearance extension of up to three

• Gobierno de Biden pide a Corte Suprema ratificar Obamacare. El gobierno del presidente Joe Biden señaló el miércoles a la Corte Suprema que cree que la Ley de Protecci

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• Facebook says it plans to remove posts with false vaccine claims. Facebook said on Monday that it plans to remove posts with erroneous claims about vaccines from across its platform, including taking down assertions that vaccines

• Su tratamiento por COVID-19 costó más de un millón de dólares; ¿quién lo pagará?. Muchas compañías de seguros han renunciado a los gastos de bolsillo para el tratamiento del coronavirus, lo que ha permitido a algunos

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• In ‘Do-over,’ Affordable Care Act health insurance reopens. People who missed open enrollment for Affordable Care Act health insurance late last year will get another opportunity to sign up, starting in mid-February. 

• Companies are charging hidden ‘covid fees’. Businesses across the country are increasingly charging coronavirus-related fees, ranging from a $5 disinfection charge in a hair salon to $1,200 for extra food and cleaning in

• Ubicada en un barrio latino muy afectado por la pandemia, esta clínica comunitaria recibió solo 100 vacunas para sus 12.000 pacientes. Tras semanas de espera, la Clínica Monseñor Romero recibió el mes pasado un cargamento de vacunas de Moderna del Departamento

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• 'Birthday Rule' blindsides first-time parents with mammoth medical bill. When a child is born into a family in which both parents have insurance through their jobs, the parents are supposed to "coordinate benefits''

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• Coming soon: The ‘vaccine passport’. A vaccination pass or passport is documentation proving that you have been vaccinated against Covid-19. Some versions will also allow people to show that they

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• How rich hospitals profit off of car accidents. Hospitals use century-old lien laws to bypass insurers and charge patients, especially poorer ones, the full amount.

• EEUU no arrestará a inmigrantes en centros de vacunación. El gobierno de Estados Unidos anunció el lunes que no realizará detenciones rutinarias de inmigración en los centros de vacunació

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• Los acuerdos secretos por las vacunas. Cuando los miembros del Parlamento Europeo se reunieron este mes para leer el primer contrato públicamente disponible para la compra de vacunas contra

• Oregon, 1er estado en despenalizar posesión de drogas duras. La policía de Oregon ya no puede arrestar a alguien por tener pequeñas cantidades de heroína, metanfetaminas, LSD, oxicodona

• Patógenos, hongos y bacterias resistentes a medicamentos ganan terreno en un mundo enfocado en el coronavirus. La propagación de otros gérmenes peligrosos aumenta como resultado, en parte, de la caótica respuesta a la pandemia.

January

29

• Is your auto insurance rate based on your job or education?. Some auto insurers in a Consumer Reports study gave higher quotes to people with less education or lower-paying jobs.

• HUD nominee to push for rental assistance and affordable housing. If confirmed as secretary of housing and urban development, Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-Ohio) will confront the immediate challenge of keeping millions of Americans from