Antes que la pandemia paralizara la industria del entretenimiento en marzo, Jeffrey Farber tenía un flujo constante de trabajo en cine y televisión, incluyendo apariciones en “Hunters” y “Blue Boods”. Pero cuando se cancelaron las producciones teatro, cine y TV, Farber no sólo perdió sus ingresos como actor, sino que también dejó de acumular las horas y ganancias que necesitaba […]
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Early in the pandemic, Ximena Rebolledo León, a registered nurse at Telluride Regional Medical Center in southwestern Colorado, needed to find everyone who’d been in contact with a sick Latino worker whose boss had told him he would lose his job if he didn’t show up. The man had gone to work and infected four co-workers, all Latinos, with COVID-19 […]
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Las vacunas que protegen contra COVID-19 están en camino. ¿Qué deben esperar los adultos mayores? Las primeras, de Pfizer y Moderna, podrían llegar antes de Navidad, según Alex Azar, que dirige el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS). Según información de las farmacéuticas, ambas vacunas mostraron una fuerte respuesta inmunológica en adultos de 65 años o más, aunque no […]
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Dr. Andrew Carroll — a family doctor in Chandler, Arizona — wants to help his patients get immunized against covid, so he paid more than $4,000 to buy an ultra-low-temperature freezer from eBay needed to store the Pfizer vaccine. But he’s not sure he’ll get a chance to use it, given health officials have so far not said when private […]
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If you’ve been watching TV lately, you may have seen actor Danny Glover or Joe Namath, the 77-year-old NFL legend, urging you to call an 800 number to get fabulous extra benefits from Medicare. There are plenty of other Medicare ads, too, many set against a red-white-and-blue background meant to suggest officialdom — though if you stand about a foot […]
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Attorneys for GOP-controlled states seeking to kill the Affordable Care Act told the Supreme Court last week that at least some of the 12 million people who newly enrolled in Medicaid signed up only because of the law’s requirement that people have insurance coverage — although a tax penalty no longer exists. The statement drew a rebuke from Justice Sonia […]
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In March, Sue Williams-Ward took a new job, with a $1-an-hour raise. The employer, a home health care agency called Together We Can, was paying a premium — $13 an hour — after it started losing aides when COVID-19 safety concerns mounted. Williams-Ward, a 68-year-old Indianapolis native, was a devoted caregiver who bathed, dressed and fed clients as if they […]
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On a sweltering July morning, Rose Wilson struggled to breathe as she sat in her bed, the light from her computer illuminating her face and the oxygen tubes in her nose. Wilson, a retiree who worked as a public health department nurse supervisor in Duval County for 35 years, had just been diagnosed with COVID-19-induced pneumonia. She […]
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A fines de marzo, poco después que el estado de Nueva York cerrara negocios no esenciales y pidiera a la gente que se quedara en casa, Ashley Laderer comenzó a despertarse cada mañana con un terrible dolor de cabeza. “Sentía que mi cabeza iba a estallar”, recordó la escritora de 27 años, residente de Long Island. Laderer trató de pasar […]
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The EU disease agency ECDC on Thursday urged countries to prepare more stringent measures and speed up vaccine campaigns in the coming weeks because of the risks of more infectious variants of the novel coronavirus. The European Centre Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in a new report that countries in the EU and European Economic Area “should expect increased […]
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