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Pennsylvania Becomes First State to Deliver Self-Restricting Tools for Online Bettors
December 28, 2020 2 min read
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board and Vancouver, BC-based GeoComply announced Monday that bettors in the Keystone State will be the first in the US to have access to a feature called PlayPause, a self-exclusion tool for online gamblers.
As the Philadelphia Eagles try to get through a dismal COVID-19-infused NFL season, Pennsylvania on Monday became the first state to partner with an online gambling control app that helps bettors restrict or opt-out of action, as needed. (Image: AP)
GeoComply, a tech company that provides secure geolocation services, created a nonprofit called Conscious Gaming in September, which spun up the PlayPause product.
Governors call for another stimulus, prep for vaccine rollout
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Governors call for another stimulus
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First shots fired in COVID-19 war, but we still face a long winter of masking and social distancing
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
Charmaine Pykosh, a 67-year-old acute care nurse in the surgical/intensive care unit at UPMC Presbyterian, was the first recipient of the COVID-19 vaccine in Pennsylvania.UPMC
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Science started punching back against COVID-19 in Pennsylvania Monday as a medical needle was plunged into the left arm of Charmaine Pykosh, a 67-year-old acute care nurse practitioner in the UPMC hospital system in Pittsburgh.
Pykosh and hundreds of other UPMC employees began taking the first of a course of two vaccine shots shortly after 11 a.m. in an auditorium room at UPMC’s Children’s Hospital, where in a bright spot in an at-times bleak year fellow staffers couldn’t help but break into applause as Pykosh waved a thumbs-up to the cameras.
Wolf calls for action on COVID relief as first vaccines rolled out in state
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