News

2021

April

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• Un error está provocando que miles de personas que solicitaron los beneficios por desempleo están perdiendo las prestaciones en 33 estados. La pandemia del COVID-19 ha provocado niveles históricos de desempleo. Un nuevo estudio ha descubierto que algunos indicadores como el...

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• Coronavirus vaccination cards a target of scams. Officials warn that falsefied cards could endanger lives and undermine efforts to end the pandemic.

• All about your coronavirus vaccine card (and what to do if it's lost). There are various ways to document that you received a coronavirus vaccine. Some people have snapped selfies proudly displaying the Band-Aid on their upper arm. Some vaccination sites are handing out stickers. But the official

• Dragging the family to get a COVID-19 vaccine, one arm at a time. Vaccine hunters are the unofficial heroes of the coronavirus age. Wielding smartphones and tablets, PCs and Macs, these internet wranglers blast through barriers that stand between loved ones’ arms and COVID vaccines.

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• El seguro de salud COBRA es gratuito durante seis meses en virtud de la ley de desgravación COVID. ¿Tiene derecho a ello?. Los estadounidenses que hayan perdido un empleo en los últimos 18 meses podrán permanecer o unirse al plan de salud de su antiguo empleador de forma gratuita hasta el 30 de septiembre. Esa disposici

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• Annual vaccine booster shots may be needed. Vaccinated individuals in the United States and elsewhere may need booster shots and annual inoculations to maintain protection against covid-19 and emerging variants, according to a White House scientific adviser and the CEO of Pfizer,

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• Indigentes en EEUU pueden al fin vacunarse contra COVID-19. Los indigentes de Estados Unidos, que se han quedado fuera de las lista de vacunación prioritaria contra el coronavirus o quedaron a un lado mientras los estados se centraban en inmunizar a grupos

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• The economy that lets you get your job done is broken. The Biden administration’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan is a radical reimagining of what infrastructure means. The American Jobs Plan does spend big on traditional infrastructure—roads, bridges, broadband, buildings—but

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• U.S. calls for pause on J&J vaccine after clotting cases. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control will stop using the vaccine at federal sites and urge states to do so as well while they examine the safety issues.

• EEUU: Seguros médicos darían mayores rebajas por pandemia. Los clientes de seguros de gastos médicos en Estados Unidos pudieran recibir descuentos en sus primas más altos de lo usual este año, en parte porque las aseguradoras tuvieron

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• The $50 billion race to save America’s renters from eviction. With judges ruling against a federal eviction ban, pressure mounts on the Biden administration to distribute billions in aid to renters.

• Employee benefits in the post-vaccine world are changing. Metro and parking subsidies may not make as much sense for employers with a remote workforce, but subsidies for cellphones and office equipment might.

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• Online scammers have a new offer for you: Vaccine cards. Sellers listed them for $20 to $60 each, with a discount on bundles of three or more. Laminated ones cost extra. All were forgeries or falsified copies of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccination cards,

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• Online scammers traffic in fake COVID vaccination cards. Fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards are being sold online, and authorities have warned individuals not to buy or make one — which is illegal. The FBI’s alert comes a month after the Federal Trade

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• Turning away from nursing homes, to what?. The occupancy rate in nursing homes in the fourth quarter of 2020 was 75 percent, down 11 percentage points from the first quarter, according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care, a research group. A

March

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• 'Vaccine passports' are on the way. The effort has gained momentum with a growing number of companies saying they will require proof of vaccination before opening again.

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• Taxpayers fund research and drug companies make a fortune. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is worried about how Americans will pay for vaccines in the future. As well she should be.These vaccines, which are critical to ending the

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• U.S. health officials question AstraZeneca vaccine trial results. Only hours after AstraZeneca announced encouraging news about the effectiveness of its Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, a group of medical experts charged with monitoring the company’s clinical trial made a highly unusual accusation:

• Biden to reassert consumer watchdog agency sidelined by Trump. Biden's administration has pinpointed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a tool to help deliver on promises to address systemic racial inequality.

• The CFPB has a message for the banks it regulates: We're back. With a new boss on the way, the consumer protection agency is knocking on doors and asking tough questions.