#Texas hospital workers suspended for refusing COVID vaccine

#Texas hospital workers suspended for refusing COVID vaccine

“#Texas hospital workers suspended for refusing COVID vaccine” A Houston-based hospital system has suspended 178 employees without pay for two weeks for refusing to get the coronavirus vaccine, according to reports. Houston Methodist CEO Marc Boom wrote in an internal message obtained by the Washington Post Tuesday that nearly 25,000 of the health care system’s…

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#What Joyce Echaquan knew – Macleans.ca

#What Joyce Echaquan knew – Macleans.ca

“#What Joyce Echaquan knew – Macleans.ca” Pam Palmater: Systemic racism in health care continues because it has been normalized, ignored and denied, while the system places an onerous burden on First Nations peoples to prove racist hospital treatment Dr. Pam Palmater is a member of the Eel River Bar First Nation in New Brunswick and…

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#Mississippi’s last abortion clinic at center of US debate

#Mississippi’s last abortion clinic at center of US debate

“#Mississippi’s last abortion clinic at center of US debate” JACKSON, Miss. — The bright pink building in an eclectic neighborhood of Mississippi’s capital goes by different names. To the anti-abortion protesters whose demonstrations have sparked a noise ordinance, it is an “abortion mill.” To those who work and volunteer there, the facility known as the…

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#How did it come to this?

#How did it come to this?

“#How did it come to this?” After a year of struggling with this pandemic, science has developed a relatively good grasp of COVID-19. We know that it is difficult to catch the virus from surfaces: Sanitizing your groceries and obsessively covering your hands in hand sanitizer is probably unnecessary. We know community spread is driven,…

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#MIT robot doctors see patients, fight spread of COVID-19

#MIT robot doctors see patients, fight spread of COVID-19

“#MIT robot doctors see patients, fight spread of COVID-19” The digi-doctor is in. Dr. Spot, a dog-like mobile robot programmed to triage hospital patients, is the newest front-line health-care worker to join the fight against COVID-19.  And while at first glance this four-legged creature might look like something out of your worst nightmare, people are…

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