Dec 31, 2020
The debate over how much individuals should get has been getting a lot of attention, but the covid relief bill recently passed by Congress also includes billions of dollars intended to help businesses. The CARES Act, passed at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, offered assistance to small businesses, but was criticized because a lot of the money went to big companies and fraudsters. FOX Business contributor and Maxfunds.com co-founder Jonas Ferris discusses how the latest round of relief compares to the first, and if it does more to prevent fraud and help those small businesses that were impacted the most by the pandemic.
Northwell Launches New App Through Apple to Deliver Teaching Tips to Trainees and Faculty
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NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Northwell Health’s Office of Academic Affairs announced today that it has launched its Just in Time Teaching Tools app to aid in the advancement of medical education knowledge and teaching skills of students, trainees and faculty. The app is now available in the Apple Store.
The new app uses the Just-in-time teaching (JiTT) model – a pedagogical approach that involves close interaction between instructors and their classrooms – to better provide timely and relevant teaching tips to trainees and faculty who need to actively engage with their instructors, specifically for those in the patient care setting.
The third priority group should include adults ages 65 to 74, people ages 16 to 64 with high-risk medical conditions and any essential not included in the second priority group, the committee recommended.
The front-line essential workers included in the second priority group include first responders, teachers, day care workers, food and agriculture workers, staffers at correctional facilities, postal workers, public transit workers, grocery store workers and people who work in manufacturing.
The essential workers included in the third priority group include IT and communications personnel, media members, public safety workers and people who maintain water and wastewater systems.
The ACIP committee voted, 13-1, to recommend these groups for Phases 1B and 1C of the national vaccination program.
Cashiers wearing protective masks work in a grocery store in Brooklyn, N.Y. in April. An expert panel that advises the CDC recommended that grocery store workers be in the second Covid-19 vaccine priority group.
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An expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Sunday that adults aged 75 and older, as well as frontline essential workers, be designated as the second priority group to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices also voted to recommend that the third stage of the national vaccination program should focus on adults 65 to 74, people 16 to 64 years old with high-risk medical conditions, and essential workers not included in the second phase of vaccination.
No added risks to radiation therapy for cancer patients with COVID-19, says study
Some are especially vulnerable to severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). These include the elderly, people with comorbidities like hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, and those with weakened immune systems, such as cancer patients undergoing treatment.
Most studies have tackled more on the vulnerability of people with underlying health conditions. There are limited studies about how coronavirus infection impacts cancer patients undergoing treatment, including chemotherapy and radiation.
A team of radiation oncologists at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in the United States aimed to determine if COVID-19 infected cancer patients receiving radiation therapy (RT) have any different outcome than non-infected patients.