As Scripps Health continues to address the cyberattack from this past weekend, our facilities remain open for patient care, including our hospitals, emergency departments, urgent care centers, Scripps HealthExpress locations and other outpatient facilities. Our technical teams and vendor partners are working tirelessly to resolve issues related to the cyberattack as quickly as possible.
Scripps also said the cyberattack had prompted some patients to reschedule appointments and would be contacting them to do so. It s not clear how that contact would be made, since it appeared Scripps email servers were affected by the outage. Patients who had appointments in the next several days can call 800-SCRIPPS for more information. Scripps.org was still down on Monday.
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Iowa Officials Coordinated With Big Tech to Censor Election Posts: Judicial Watch
Iowa State officials worked with Big Tech last year to censor posts related to the 2020 election, government watchdog group Judicial Watch announced on May 3.
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