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Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.
Big Healthcare Companies Paid No Income Taxes
Three healthcare entities Community Health Systems, Dexcom, and Hologic reported receiving federal rebates in 2020 rather than making a net payment of federal corporate income taxes, according to a report published by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP).
These companies were among at least 55 large American firms that did not report net tax payments last year, ITEP found. And it s not a new phenomenon: This continues a decades-long trend of corporate tax avoidance by the biggest U.S. corporations, and it appears to be the product of long-standing tax breaks preserved or expanded by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) as well as the CARES Act tax breaks enacted in the spring of 2020, the report said.
COVID mutants multiply as scientists race to decode variations
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When Bette Korber, a biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, spotted the first significant mutation in the COVID-19 virus last spring, some scientists were skeptical. They didn’t believe it would make the virus more contagious and said its rapid rise might just be coincidence.
Now, 11 months later, the D614G mutation she helped discover is ubiquitous worldwide, featured in the genomes of fast-spreading variants from the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil. Meanwhile, new mutations are popping up in increasingly complicated patterns, spurring a drive by top biologists to devise new ways to track a fire hose of incoming genomic data.
Covid Mutants Multiply As Scientists Race To Track Shape-Shifting Virus Covid Mutants Multiply As Scientists Race To Track Shape-Shifting Virus The flood of new genome data is so great that the Los Alamos lab had to upgrade its servers to deal with the incoming data.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus could settle down and become a mere nuisance like the common cold. (File)
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Top biologists are devising new ways to track incoming genomic data
The HIV virus is notorious for its rapid mutation rate
When Bette Korber, a biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, spotted the first significant mutation in the Covid-19 virus last spring, some scientists were skeptical. They didn t believe it would make the virus more contagious and said its rapid rise might just be coincidence.
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Offering World-Class Health Care
Looking around Wheeling Hospital, its inclusion into the West Virginia University Health System is obvious.
The “Flying WV,” the logo synonymous with WVU, can be found prominently and abundantly. Yet, Wheeling Hospital CEO Douglass Harrison said that the hospital joining the WVU team is much more than a cosmetic change. It’s a change that he feels will benefit Wheeling and the Ohio Valley immediately and well into the future.
“You’re joining a world-class academic health center and health system,” Harrison said. “As a part of that, WVU medicine will provide the resources necessary to make sure Wheeling Hospital is successful. If you look around our system, every hospital that we’ve brought in, if you look from day one and look through a three-year scope, you’ve seen growth.