News

2021

March

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• 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 the pandemic.

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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 can be given to people ages 18 and older in the

February

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• 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 of proof they will need. It could include a letter

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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 virus by vaccinated people, according to new analyses by the

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• Consumer Action’s ‘Share Financial Data with Care’ project to educate FinTech app users to be ‘security savvy’ (New campaign will provide resources for consumers to control access and safeguard their financial information on financial apps). Consumer Action launches a new project to expand consumer awareness about how financial services applications (“apps”) access, collect, store, use and share customers’ personal information.

• 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 company changed its cancellation policy and hosts saw what little

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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 benefits have different eligibility requirements and complicated paperwork. And most

• 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, brain fog and more than 460,000 deaths in the U.S.

• 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 months, the Federal Housing Finance Agency. FHFA forbearance plans

• 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 Protección al Paciente y Cuidado de Salud Asequible deber

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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 cause autism or that it is safer for people to

• 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 pacientes reducir la costosa factura a nada. Pero esas exenciones

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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.  People who previously had job-based insurance but lost it during

• 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 a senior living center, which are often undisclosed until the

• 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 de Salud Pública del Condado de Los Á

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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'' — meaning they must tell both insurers that their child

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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 have tested negative for the virus, and therefore can more

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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.