#Too much prejudice against old and young in world

#Too much prejudice against old and young in world

“#Too much prejudice against old and young in world” UNITED NATIONS — Prejudice and discrimination based on age is widespread around the world, affecting millions of older and younger people trying to work and get health care, denying their human rights and costing society billions of dollars, a UN report said Thursday. “Its main message…

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#Film industry health firm to set up COVID vaccine sites

#Film industry health firm to set up COVID vaccine sites

“#Film industry health firm to set up COVID vaccine sites” A company that specializes in keeping COVID-19 away from film sets is gearing up to vaccinate Americans against the deadly bug. VIP StarNetwork, a health-care services firm that’s helped Netflix and Amazon Studios with coronavirus safety protocols, plans to inoculate 2,000 to 8,000 people a…

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#’Avoid creating new permanent spending’

#’Avoid creating new permanent spending’

“#’Avoid creating new permanent spending’” Paul Wells: Earlier this year, Justin Trudeau gave his finance minister a mandate to avoid any new recurring spending. Here is a brief history of that doomed campaign. So here’s something. On Jan. 15, five months after she became finance minister, Chrystia Freeland received a mandate letter from Prime Minister…

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#Her mom battled 1918 pandemic, she fights this one

#Her mom battled 1918 pandemic, she fights this one

“#Her mom battled 1918 pandemic, she fights this one” SALINAS, Calif. — She’s 76 years old but nurse practitioner Sigrid Stokes is in no mood to retire. Stokes is too busy working to save lives during a deadly pandemic, just as her mother did more than a century ago. While the late Kristine Berg Mueller…

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#Pathologist accused in three deaths gets 20 years in prison

#Pathologist accused in three deaths gets 20 years in prison

“#Pathologist accused in three deaths gets 20 years in prison” A former chief pathologist at an Arkansas veterans hospital accused of causing the deaths of three patients was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday, federal prosecutors said. Robert Morris Levy, 54, of Fayetteville, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered…

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