HHS Claws Back $100 Million in Provider Pandemic Relief Money
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is collecting $100 million in pandemic assistance money from providers who failed to comply with the agency’s reporting requirements, a Bloomberg Law report found. On March 10, HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) sent notices to providers who received more than $10,000 in relief money but […]
Wisconsin Makes Threats Against Healthcare Workers a Felony
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D) signed a bill into law on Wednesday that makes threatening a healthcare worker a felony. Under the amended law, threats against a healthcare provider will be similar to other “special circumstance” batteries, which involve actual bodily harm and are punished more severely when […]
Missed Cancer Screenings During Pandemic Could Raise Death Rate for Years
Title: Missed Cancer Screenings During Pandemic Could Raise Death Rate for YearsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM
The Rare, Underdiscussed Issue Some People Experience After COVID
From the very beginning of the pandemic, it has been clear that COVID can have as profound an impact on mental health as it does on physical well-being. Rates of depression and anxiety have spiked around the globe, even among those who’ve never been sick. For those who have been infected, the risk is higher. […]
Why ‘Zero COVID’ Policies May Backfire For Countries Like China
As Europe and the U.S. prepare to turn the page from the emergency stage of the coronavirus pandemic, countries once deemed winners for using strict measures to contain COVID-19 cases could face long-term challenges dealing with the virus. A new surge in China driven largely by the omicron BA.2 subvariant led authorities to once again […]
Amid war and disease, World Happiness Report shows bright spot: The pandemic brought an increase in social support and benevolence
In this troubled time of war and pandemic, the World Happiness Report 2022 shows a bright light in dark times. According to the team of international researchers, including McGill University Professor Christopher Barrington-Leigh, the pandemic brought not only pain and suffering but also an increase in social support and benevolence. As the world battles the […]
‘We Are Turning a Corner on COVID’: HHS Secretary Calls for More Funding
WASHINGTON — In order to be able to turn the corner on the COVID pandemic, the Biden administration needs Congress to allocate more funding for the federal government, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said at a press conference on Friday. “I’m going to lay out to Congress what we can do with what they give us […]
How Will COVID End? Experts Look To Past Epidemics For Clues
NEW YORK (AP) — Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world has seen a dramatic improvement in infections, hospitalizations and death rates in recent weeks, signaling the crisis appears to be winding down. But how will it end? Past epidemics may provide clues. The ends of epidemics are not as thoroughly researched […]
I Work In A Nursing Home. The Horrors I’ve Seen During COVID Continue To Haunt Me.
This essay is part of “Survive. Thrive. Evolve: How Two Years of the Pandemic Impacted Us Around the World,” a global HuffPost project featuring individuals writing about how their lives were affected after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The following piece originally appeared on HuffPost Spain. It has been translated into English and lightly […]
Pandemic Only Made Inequities Between Men and Women Worse
The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have exacerbated the inequalities that already existed between men and women across the globe, a review of data showed. Analyses of gender-specific datasets from 193 countries found that women were more likely than men to report employment loss from March 2020 to September 2021 (26% vs 20.4%, respectively), and were […]