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Ex-Verve boss Bill Weinstein sues agency in effort to reverse his ‘surprise ouster’
10 months, 1 week ago

Ex-Verve boss Bill Weinstein sues agency in effort to reverse his ‘surprise ouster’

LA Times  

Bill Weinstein attends the Walt Disney Co. Emmy Awards party at Otium on Jan. 15 in Los Angeles. Bill Weinstein, who founded Verve alongside Adam Levine and Bryan Besser in 2010, filed the complaint Thursday in Los Angeles. The 14-page complaint alleges that Levine and Besser “conspired with one another to oust Weinstein from the Los Angeles-based company. without any …

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MPX? Mpox? The struggle to replace ‘monkeypox’ with a name that isn’t racist
2 years, 4 months ago

MPX? Mpox? The struggle to replace ‘monkeypox’ with a name that isn’t racist

LA Times  

Some people argue that the name is racist and disparages an entire continent. “Monkeypox is kind of a strange name to give to a disease that’s now afflicting humans,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s leading expert on infectious diseases. “We’ve seen certain disease names provoke a backlash against members of particular religious or ethnic communities, create unjustified barriers …

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Analysis: Democratic governors outpace White House with masking pullbacks
2 years, 11 months ago

Analysis: Democratic governors outpace White House with masking pullbacks

CNN  

CNN — A rush of moves by Democratic states laying out timelines to lift mask mandates is leaving a cautious White House behind and hiking pressure on top government health officials to codify an Omicron endgame. On Monday alone, three Democratic governors – in New Jersey, Delaware and Connecticut – and the public health department in Oregon set timelines to …

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CDC gives new guidance on what vaccinated people can safely enjoy. But we may be hitting a wall with vaccine hesitancy
3 years, 8 months ago

CDC gives new guidance on what vaccinated people can safely enjoy. But we may be hitting a wall with vaccine hesitancy

CNN  

CNN — Just in time for warmer weather, fully vaccinated Americans can now safely enjoy more pre-pandemic activities without a mask, according to new guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That, coupled with the fact that we now have 37% of people over the age of 18 fully vaccinated and the fact that our case rates …

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CDC drops controversial testing advice that caused backlash
4 years, 3 months ago

CDC drops controversial testing advice that caused backlash

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — U.S. health officials on Friday dropped a controversial piece of coronavirus guidance and said anyone who has been in close contact with an infected person should get tested. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention essentially returned to its previous testing guidance, getting rid of language posted last month that said people didn’t need to get tested …

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Massachusetts and Connecticut coronavirus: The final states to begin reopening
4 years, 7 months ago

Massachusetts and Connecticut coronavirus: The final states to begin reopening

CNN  

CNN — Massachusetts and Connecticut are set to partially reopen this week after prolonged coronavirus shutdowns, the final states to begin to do so. In addition, Connecticut, which released its reopening plan May 9, is set to allow restaurants, offices, retail stores and outdoor museums and zoos to reopen with certain restrictions on Wednesday. At one end of the spectrum …

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Disabled Americans can’t be a Covid-19 afterthought (opinion)
4 years, 8 months ago

Disabled Americans can’t be a Covid-19 afterthought (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Richard E. Besser, a physician, is president and chief executive of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, NJ. One such failure that must be more widely addressed and immediately rectified is the neglect of people with disabilities, many of whom are among the most endangered by Covid-19, as their conditions or chronic illnesses may leave them at …

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How Trump let the U.S. fall behind the curve on coronavirus threat
4 years, 8 months ago

How Trump let the U.S. fall behind the curve on coronavirus threat

LA Times  

The first day President Trump mentioned the coronavirus in public, only one American was known to be infected. China soon identified the cause of the outbreak as a new strain of coronavirus but said there was “no evidence of significant human-to-human transmission.” At the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Director Robert Redfield, a physician and former AIDS researcher, …

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How this L.A. comedy theater botched coronavirus layoffs
4 years, 9 months ago

How this L.A. comedy theater botched coronavirus layoffs

LA Times  

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, comedy theaters are among the many businesses shutting their doors and laying off staff. “UCB laying off staff is not a surprise to me,” said Curious Comedy’s managing/artistic director Stacey Hallal. “UCB is the big dog on the block,” said the theater manager, “and they’re going to a take a lot of heat for this — …

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