Florida Governor Ron DeSantis extended the executive order that bans local governments from enforcing mask mandates and violations, on Tuesday. On Sept. 25, DeSantis signed an executive order that prevented municipalities from fining people for violating a mask ordinance and has stated that he’s not…
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Hannah Norman, Kaiser Health News November 25, 2020 Brandon Hudgins works the main floor at Fleet Feet, a running-shoe store chain, for more than 30 hours a week. He chats with customers, measuring their feet and dashing in and out of the storage area to…
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Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Of his many plans to expand insurance coverage, President-elect Joe Biden’s simplest strategy is lowering the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 60. But the plan is sure to face long odds, even if the Democrats can snag control…
Read More Biden Plan to Lower Medicare Eligibility Age to 60 Faces Hostility From Hospitals
SARASOTA, Fla. – Doctor’s Choice Home Care, Inc. and its former executives, Timothy Beach and Stuart Christensen, have agreed to pay $5.15 million to resolve allegations that the home health agency provided improper financial inducements to referring physicians through sham medical director agreements and bonuses…
Read More Home Health Agency And Former Owners To Pay $5.8 Million To Settle False Claims Act Allegations
by: Shoshana Dubnow Sonia Brown’s husband died on June 10. Two weeks later, the 65-year-old registered nurse was back at work. Her husband’s medical bills and a car payment loomed over her head. “She wanted to make sure all those things were taken care of…
Read More These Front-Line Workers Could Have Retired. They Risked Their Lives InsteadElisabeth Rosenthal November 19, 2020 As a health journalist, a physician and a former foreign correspondent who lived through SARS in Beijing, I often get questions from friends, colleagues and people I don’t even know about how to live during the pandemic. Do I think…
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CITRUS COUNTY, Fla.- To ensure COVID-19 testing continues to be available to the community, the testing site at the Citrus Springs Community Center will remain open on Friday, Nov. 27, despite the Florida Department of Health in Citrus County’s (DOH-Citrus) Thanksgiving closures on Thursday, Nov.…
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SAINT PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Tropicana Field COVID-19 testing site has reached capacity and has closed to new cars for the day, but residents can be tested at a number of other sites throughout the county at no cost. A list of many of those…
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CLEARWATER, Fla. — Pouring cooking fats, oils, and greases down the drain this holiday season can cause serious and expensive pipe blockages. Clearwater Public Utilities and the Solid Waste/Recycling Department ask residents to repurpose their cooking fats, oils, and grease this holiday season. Follow these…
Read More The City of Clearwater Says ‘Don’t Pour The Turkey Grease Down The Drain’
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) announced they will submit a request today to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of their mRNA vaccine candidate, BNT162b2 against SARS-CoV-2, which will potentially enable use of the vaccine in high-risk populations…
Read More BREAKING: Pfizer AND BioNTECH To Submit For Emergency Use Authorization Today To U.S. FDA For COVID-19 Vaccine