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Doctors, nurses fighting coronavirus are having pay and benefits cut as employers lose revenue

April 1, 2020 / By Greg Norman | Fox News Emergency room doctors and nurses who are putting their personal health at risk to treat coronavirus patients are now seeing their pay, compensation and other benefits being cut as the economic impact from the pandemic is spreading through the medical industry. Staffing companies that have contracts with hospitals and employ those who work in emergency rooms say …

Small business loans could become target of fraud and a government watchdog is already trying to stop it

March 31, 2020 / By Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) – As small businesses across the country clamor to apply for loans under the $2 trillion stimulus package, work is already being done to try and reduce any outbreak of fraud in the program. Behind the scenes, conversations have begun with law enforcement partners around the country to …

Hospitals Got $100 Billion in the Stimulus Package. But A Lot of That Could Go Toward Administrative Costs

April 1, 2020 / BY ABIGAIL ABRAMS  Hospitals have spent the past few weeks racing to respond to the growing COVID-19 crisis, supplementing shortages of equipment, calling back retired personnel, and transforming entire hospital wings to care for infected patients. So when Congress included $100 billion in the stimulus package passed last week to help hospitals and other …

Coronavirus Task Force Details ‘Sobering’ Data Behind Its Extended Guidelines

March 31, 2020 / PHILIP EWING Updated at 7:40 p.m. ET America must brace for 100,000 or more people to die in the coming months in the coronavirus pandemic, the White House’s response team warned Tuesday. “As sobering a number as that is, we should be prepared for it,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top …

‘Panic and neglect’: Scientific improvements help fight pandemics such as coronavirus, but funding lags between emergencies

March 31, 2020 / Bart Jansen, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – One virus came from an unusual kind of cat and killed hundreds of people. Another was blamed on pigs and killed 18,000 people worldwide, two-thirds of them in the USA. A third came from camels, killed hundreds and remains more lethal than the others. Each of these respiratory …

How Centura Health is Battling COVID19 with Grit, Hope and Help

by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed., April 1, 2020 In this time of social distancing, Centura Health—a network of 17 hospitals—is finding ways to create unity. The 21,000 employees of Centura Health are hard at work assisting in the fight against COVID19 in Colorado and Western Kansas. Andrew French, M.D. is Chief Medical Officer at Centura …

Fearing COVID-19 spread to families, health care workers self-isolate at home

March 31, 2020 / By Caitlin Fichtel and Sarah Kaufman After Dr. Tim Cheng, a pulmonary and critical care doctor in Orange County, California, saw his first COVID-19 patient, he made the decision to self-isolate, moving into a tent in the garage, to avoid the possibility of infecting his family with the coronavirus. Cheng is one …

Pentagon says it still hasn’t sent ventilators because it hasn’t been told where to send them

March 31, 2020 / By Barbara Starr and Zachary Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) – Despite having committed to transferring 2,000 ventilators in military stocks to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services to fight the coronavirus outbreak, the Pentagon has not shipped any of them because the agencies have not asked for them …

Surgeon general tells hospitals they can split ventilators to ease demand as ‘absolute last resort’

March 31, 2020 / By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News The Trump administration on Tuesday told hospitals they can start splitting ventilators between two patients in an attempt to remedy the dearth of the machines amid the coronavirus pandemic. An open letter to health care workers from Surgeon General Jerome Adams and Adm. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary for health, did caution …

FDNY EMS worker on surge of daily 911 calls: It’s on the level of 9/11 attacks each day

March 31, 2020 / By Joshua Nelson | Fox News In the wake of the coronavirus surge in New York City, first responders are “overwhelmed” with calls from people affected by the coronavirus. “On 9/11 [in 2001], there were roughly 6,400 calls. But, [on 9/11] they either made it out or they didn’t. Very tragic, of course. Everybody remembered,” New York Fire Department EMS …

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