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California Businesses Go From Simmer to Boil Over Newsom’s Fine Dining
By Bernard J. Wolfson and Anna Almendrala
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s maskless dinner with medical industry lobbyists and others at a Napa Coun [...]
Hillsborough COVID-19 State of Local Emergency Extended Effective Nov. 26
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. - Hillsborough County's state of local emergency enacted in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is extended for a [...]
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Extends Executive Order on Mask Mandates
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis extended the executive order that bans local governments from enforcing mask mandates and violations, on Tuesday.
On [...]
Why Employers Find It So Hard to Test for COVID-19
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 [...]
Biden Plan to Lower Medicare Eligibility Age to 60 Faces Hostility From Hospitals
Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Of his many plans to expand insurance coverage, President-elect Joe Biden’s simplest strategy is lowering the e [...]
Home Health Agency And Former Owners To Pay $5.8 Million To Settle False Claims Act Allegations
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 [...]
These Front-Line Workers Could Have Retired. They Risked Their Lives Instead
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 medi [...]
Take It From an Expert: Fauci’s Hierarchy of Safety During COVID
Elisabeth Rosenthal November 19, 2020
As a health journalist, a physician and a former foreign correspondent who lived through SARS in Beijing, I [...]
Citrus COVID Testing Site Remains Open Despite Holiday
CITRUS COUNTY, Fla.- To ensure COVID-19 testing continues to be available to the community, the testing site at the Citrus Springs Community Center w [...]
Tropicana Field COVID-19 Testing at Capacity, Closed for New Cars
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 [...]