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LAUSD teachers’ union contemplating a refusal to return to in-person workFebruary 19, 2021 at 10:01 PM Faced with mounting pressure by some elected officials, parents and others who want schools to reopen, the union representing Los Angeles Unified School District teachers announced Friday, Feb. 19, that its members will soon take a vote on whether they should refuse to return to campus if in-person instruction becomes mandatory.
More than 900 chapter chairs voted on this question earlier this week, with 93% electing to “organize around a refusal to return for a full or hybrid physical reopening ...Tags: Health, News, Education, California, Kaiser Permanente, Government, Sport, Soccer, Ronald Reagan, Community, Lausd, Disneyland, Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles County, U S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Gabriel Valley 42 people like this. Like Travis AFB One Of Two Bases Nationwide Testing Pilot Suicide Prevention ProgramFebruary 19, 2021 at 9:24 PM cbsoptanon.onScriptsReady(function(cmp){cmp.ot.targetingAllowed(function(a){if(a) AnvatoPlayer("p2").init({"mcp":"cbs","width":"100%","height":"100%","video":"5321213","autoplay":false,"accessKey":"5VD6Eyd6djewbCmNwBFnsJj17YAvGRwl","accessControl":{"preview":false},"pInstance":"p2","plugins":{"heartbeat":{"account":"cbslocal-global-unified","publisherId":"cbslocal","jobId":"sc_va","marketingCloudId":"[email protected]","trackingServer":"cbsdigitalmedia.hb.omtrdc.net","customTrack...Tags: Health, Technology, News, Local, Seen On, Sacramento, Department Of Defense, Virtual Reality, Cbs, Illinois, Benson, Megan, Travis, John Benson, Travis Air Force Base, Scott Air Force Base 42 people like this. Like Feds OK’d export of millions of N95 masks as U.S. workers cried for moreFebruary 19, 2021 at 8:43 PM In the midst of a national shortage of N95 masks, the U.S. government quietly granted an exception to its export ban on protective gear, allowing as many as 5 million of the masks per month to be shipped overseas.Tags: Health 42 people like this. Like New single-payer bill intensifies Newsom’s political perilFebruary 19, 2021 at 8:39 PM A group of Democratic state lawmakers introduced legislation Friday to create a single-payer health care system to cover all Californians, immediately defining the biggest health policy debate of the year and putting enormous political pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom.Tags: Health, Newsom 21 people like this. Like FDA warns 10 companies for selling unlawful dietary supplements that claim to treat mental health problemsFebruary 19, 2021 at 8:31 PM Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced warning letters to 10 companies for illegally selling dietary supplements that claim to cure, treat, mitigate, or prevent depression and other mental health disorders, in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act).Tags: Health, Fda, U S Food and Drug Administration 50 people like this. Like LA County’s vaccine mission keeps getting more complexFebruary 19, 2021 at 9:26 PM  Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Kaiser Permanente, Government, Paul Simon, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, United States, San Diego, Community, Blue Shield, Disneyland 64 people like this. Like Expanding the osteopathic concept for the health of all things [PODCAST]February 19, 2021 at 7:00 PM  Tags: Health, Podcast, Primary Care, PA NP, CRNA 116 people like this. Like How do we talk about race, racism, and white supremacy without screaming at each other?February 19, 2021 at 5:00 PM Tags: Health, Policy, PA NP, Public Health & Policy, CRNA 111 people like this. Like Reframing the Trump Prophecies: When Prophecy FailsFebruary 19, 2021 at 5:29 PM Julia Duin, who has a long history of stellar religion writing, yesterday published at Politico a deep dive into the world of Trump prophets and prophecies. I urge you to take the time to read it. The business of the charismatic church right now is in disarray because the prophets can’t get their prophecies straight. Some think Trump is about to return to the throne and others think those prophets are foolish.
I am not very bothered by this. I have never had much confidence in modern day proph...Tags: Health, Michael Brown, Christ, Infertility, Trump, Charlotte North Carolina, Michael Brown Brown, Greg Locke, Jeremiah Johnson, Leon Festinger, Festinger, Julia Duin, Duin, Johnny Enlow, Duin Brown 31 people like this. Like Kaiser Permanente asks for patience as coronavirus vaccine supplies lagFebruary 19, 2021 at 5:06 PM Kaiser Permanente, the state’s largest health-care provider, seeks patience from Southern California members frustrated by limited COVID-19 vaccination appointments as it copes with vaccine shortages and shipments delayed by severe, cold weather across the United States.
While many Kaiser members in the region say they have been able to get vaccination appointments through the system, others, including those over age 75 with high-risk health conditions, say they have had more success securing sl...Tags: Health, News, California, Kaiser Permanente, La, Los Angeles, Sport, UPS, Public Health, Soccer, Hawaii, Kaiser, Disneyland, Orange County, Riverside County, East Coast 43 people like this. Like The Flu Season That Wasn’tFebruary 19, 2021 at 5:38 PM  Tags: Health, Science, Articles, Influenza, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Seasonality, Pandemic, Influenza Vaccine, Flu Season, Spanish Flu, United States Flu Season, Swine Flu Pandemic, Influenza A Virus Subtype H1n1 74 people like this. Like HOLISTIC PATH TO PREGNANCYFebruary 19, 2021 at 5:45 PM  Tags: Health, Infertility, Sandy Robertson, Practitioners of Maya Abdominal Massage, Karlo Berger 63 people like this. Like Children cannot afford to wait: We need to all work together to help schools reopenFebruary 19, 2021 at 3:00 PM Tags: Health, Physician, PA NP, Public Health & Policy, CRNA 101 people like this. Like Promising new data shows Pfizer's vaccine can overcome its ultra-cold storage requirements, as new research hints at just how effective the shot isFebruary 19, 2021 at 3:28 PM Tags: Health, Science, Cdc, Israel, US, Trends, Healthcare, Fda, Pfizer, Anthony Fauci, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Johnson Johnson, US Food and Drug Administration, Moderna, BioNtech, Albert Bourla 122 people like this. Like How Traveling The English Countryside is Good for your Mental HealthFebruary 19, 2021 at 1:58 PM  Tags: Fashion, London, Mental Health, Mental Health Foundation, Govia, Cornish coast, Lake District the Peak District 116 people like this. Like UNH's new report on child maltreatment shows mixed trendsFebruary 19, 2021 at 1:58 PM A new report from the University of New Hampshire's Crimes against Children Research Center, using data collected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, showed a marked increase in the share of child maltreatment cases resulting in fatalities as well as a decline in cases of physical abuse and neglect in 2019.Tags: Health, UNH, University of New Hampshire, U S Department of Health and Human Services, Children Research Center 12 people like this. Like It’s never too late for physicians to change directions and land new jobsFebruary 19, 2021 at 1:00 PM Tags: Health, Practice Management, Physician, PA NP, CRNA 94 people like this. Like How Your Partner's Birth Control Can Affect Your Sex Life (And What to Do About It)February 19, 2021 at 1:30 PM  Tags: Health, Drugs, Lifehacks, Midwifery, Birth Control, Womens Health, Human Interest, Health Sciences, Intrauterine Device, Hormonal Contraception, Meera Shah, Health Medical Pharma, Hormonal Iuds, Hepatotoxins, Ethinylestradioletonogestrel, Dosage Forms 129 people like this. Like To vaccinate veterans, health care workers must cross mountains, plains and tundraFebruary 19, 2021 at 1:47 PM A Learjet 31 took off before daybreak from Helena Regional Airport in Montana, carrying six Veterans Affairs medical providers and 250 doses of historic cargo cradled in a plug-in cooler designed to minimize breakage.Tags: Health, Montana, Helena Regional Airport 33 people like this. Like Spurred by pandemic, Little Shell Tribe fast-tracks its health service debutFebruary 19, 2021 at 1:40 PM Linda Watson draped a sweater with the words "Little Shell Chippewa Tribe" over her as she received the newly recognized tribal nation's first dose of covid-19 vaccine.Tags: Health, Linda Watson, Little Shell Tribe, Little Shell Chippewa Tribe 44 people like this. Like Companies pan for marketing gold in vaccinesFebruary 19, 2021 at 1:32 PM For a decade, Jennifer Crow has taken care of her elderly parents, who have multiple sclerosis. After her father had a stroke in December, the family got serious in its conversations with a retirement community — and learned that one service it offered was covid-19 vaccination.Tags: Health, Jennifer Crow 45 people like this. Like One Pfizer/BioNTech shot gives 85% Covid protection - studyFebruary 19, 2021 at 1:31 PM Research from Israel lends support to UK’s decision to increase dosing gap to 12 weeksCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA single dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine gives people 85% protection from Covid-19, according to a study from Israel.Pfizer has consistently said that two doses of the vaccine are needed for high efficacy. In clinical trials, it reported efficacy of 52.4% after one dose, but 95% after two doses. Continue reading...Tags: Health, UK, Israel, Society, UK News, World news, Vaccines and immunisation, Pfizer, Coronavirus, COVID, Israel Pfizer 26 people like this. Like Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine just got a lot easier to transport and distributeFebruary 19, 2021 at 10:48 AM The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech now has less stringent and extreme transportation requirements than it debuted with. Originally, the mRNA-based vaccine had to be maintained at ultra-low temperatures throughout the transportation chain in order to remain viable – between -76°F and -112°F. New stability data collected by Pfizer and BioNTech, which has been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for review, allow it to be stored at temps between 5°F and -13°F...Tags: Health, Amazon, TC, Uber, Medicine, Articles, Tech, Medical Research, United States, President, Pfizer, Vaccine, Biotech, Biden, Clinical Trials, U S Food and Drug Administration FDA 35 people like this. Like The path out of lockdown: can Boris Johnson keep his boosterism at bay?February 19, 2021 at 10:44 AM England waits to see if PM will stay restrained or bow to backbench pressure with Covid planCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt was an uncharacteristically subdued Boris Johnson who announced from Downing Street that Britain had surpassed the first, phenomenally ambitious target of giving 15 million people a coronavirus vaccine: this was a success, yes, but it was “no moment to relax”, the prime minister said on Monday.The boosterish rhetoric has been restrained for se...Tags: Health, Politics, England, Society, UK News, Public services policy, Britain, Health policy, Boris Johnson, Downing Street, Coronavirus 46 people like this. Like Matt Hancock acted unlawfully by failing to publish Covid contractsFebruary 19, 2021 at 10:01 AM High court rules that failure to publish details of contracts within 30 days was transparency breach Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe health secretary, Matt Hancock, acted unlawfully by failing to publish multibillion-pound Covid-19 government contracts within the 30-day period required by law, a high court judge has ruled.The judge, Mr Justice Chamberlain, ruled the failure to do so breached the “vital public function” of transparency over how “vast quantities” of...Tags: Health, Politics, Law, Conservatives, Society, UK News, Public services policy, Health policy, Matt Hancock, Coronavirus, Mr Justice Chamberlain 50 people like this. Like How chess can make you a better physicianFebruary 19, 2021 at 11:00 AM Tags: Health, Education, Medical School, PA NP, CRNA 113 people like this. Like One in 3 COVID survivors may suffer from symptoms even after recovery. Researchers don't yet know how long it could last.February 19, 2021 at 9:39 AM Tags: Health, Colorado, Trends, Healthcare, Recovery, Symptoms, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Wuhan, Nordic, Colorado State University, Wuhan China, Contributor, The Conversation US, The Conversation, JGI Jamie Grill Getty, COVID 79 people like this. Like Rush Limbaugh, the "isolate."February 19, 2021 at 9:52 AM From "Rush Limbaugh’s Complicated Legacy/He was a gifted entertainer and advocate, but in his later years certain flaws became more evident" by Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal: To create a community of tens of millions of people in fractured, incoherent America was an astounding feat. To pretty much sustain it over 30 years was equally astounding. It is perhaps ironic but probably inevitable that that community was created by a man whom one of his closest friends this week called “an iso...Tags: Psychology, Law, John Lennon, America, Language, Peggy Noonan, Solitude, Don, Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Althouse 48 people like this. Like Live attenuated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate shows protective efficacy in vivoFebruary 19, 2021 at 9:50 AM A new preprint on the bioRxiv* server describes the development of a live attenuated vaccine candidate to counter the growing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic.Tags: Health 16 people like this. Like Llama-derived nanobodies show neutralizing activity against SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in vitroFebruary 19, 2021 at 9:37 AM A new study reports the development of nanoantibodies (nAbs) – also called or nanobodiesTM or single-domain antibodies – that effectively bind the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein from the ancestral Wuhan variant as well as the recently detected UK and South African variants.Tags: Health, UK, Wuhan 47 people like this. Like |
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