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A BBQ Book Talk, Sneaker Art, and a Tasteful Lecture on Animal PDA: Things to Do in DC, April 26-28 Plus: Oscars talk. Hi everyone! Hope you’re having a great Monday, this is Rosa and I’m back in action here (shoutout to the inimitable Daniella Byck for subbing!). We’ve got BBQ recipes, a Fauci talk, and an exhibit of sneaker art. PDA: It’s for the birds. Learn about it this week. Here’s what you should check out this week: Dig in: Unmarked is a new documentary that looks at unident...

Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and analyses; and other health policy news. Week in Review Highlight of the Week: This week, HHS announced it is providing $150 million to community-based health care providers to aid their response to COVID-19. Read more about this funding and other news below. I. Regulati...

Millions of Americans are missing ‘critical’ second COVID-19 vaccine shot, according to CDC data By Chris Williams CDC holds news conference on masks, vaccine hesitancy CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walenksy and top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke about the CDCs latest guidelines on mask-wearing and vaccine hesitancy. ATLANTA - More than five million Americans have missed out on their second COVID-19 vaccine dose, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pre...

NJ couple giving free rides to COVID-19 vaccine sites in one-of-a-kind virus-shaped car By Chris Williams NJ couple giving free rides to COVID-19 vaccine sites in one-of-a-kind virus-shaped car Joseph Cicchetti and Shirley Limburg spoke with FOX Television Stations about helping people get to COVID-19 vaccination sites. BLOOMSBURY, N.J. - Joseph Cicchetti and his life partner, Shirley Limburg, have created a unique way to help people get to COVID-19 vaccination sites for free.  Their mode of t...

Inside Biden’s make-or-break first 100 days battling the Covid pandemic For the last 100 days, President Joe Biden and his top advisers have mounted an urgent, wartime effort to get millions of coronavirus vaccines into the arms of Americans in order to beat back a pandemic that has upended the world for the better part of year. The effort, described to CNN during in-depth interviews with three of the administration’s top Covid advisers and two other White House officials, has allowed the U...

How the US went from having one of the worst Covid responses to being a global leader in vaccinations under Biden CNN 3 hrs ago By Ashley Semler, CNN © Tom Brenner/Reuters FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden attends an event where he announced administration plans to double its order of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, procuring an additional 100 million doses, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 10, 2021. REUTE...

The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Bill Is a Thought Crime Bill | Opinion On 4/22/21 at 7:30 AM EDT In the Woke America we increasingly inhabit, opposing the progressive agenda is treated as tantamount to bigotry. The modern Democratic Partys modus operandi is to play up that purported bigotry as a pretext to savage and smear political adversaries, run roughshod over our rights, and ultimately usurp power in the self-serving name of virtue and "equity." This manifests itself in all kinds...

Anti-Asian Violence and Efforts to Combat It Anti-Asian Violence and Efforts to Combat It “For far too long our culture has belittled, fetishized, and dehumanized API women, especially poorer, southeast Asian women…I am urging President Biden, Congress, and every state and local official to work diligently to address [the] ongoing violence against the API community, work diligently to end human trafficking, prioritize the end of sexual violence against women, and help heal raci...

Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and analyses; and other health policy news. Week in Review Highlight of the Week: This week, President Biden signed a bill extending a moratorium on Medicare sequestration through the end of 2021. Read more about the law and other news below. I. Regulations, Notices & Guida...

Pandemic reveals health care inequity — Published: 4/17/2021 1:00:11 PM As an African American nurse, health care provider, and public health worker, Bobbie Bagley says she has “lived it” from both sides. The “it” being the inequities and systemic racism that exist in the health care system — inequities that have come under the spotlight of the pandemic as COVID-19 disproportionately affects people of color. Inequities existed long before COVID-19 though, says Bagley, director of ...