Eligible BPS and Charter School Seventh Graders Encouraged to Apply for Award-winning College Success Program
February 16th, 2021
share-square-1120866
BOSTON, MA – The Red Sox Foundation is now accepting applications for their award-winning Red Sox Scholars program, which provides $10,000 scholarships to 12 students annually from the Boston Public Schools and charter schools. The program, which is now in its 19th year, is presented by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), the Official Hospital & Official Health Care Provider of the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Park.
To be eligible for the program, applicants must be enrolled as a full-time 7th grade student in the Boston Public School District or at a Boston Public Charter School, demonstrate strong academic potential and financial need. Applications for the Red Sox Scholars program are available in English and Spanish and can be downloaded from redsoxfoundation.org/redsoxscholars. To be considered, applications must be s
New enrollment period for health care plans begins Monday
Signups for the Affordable Care Act begin Sunday, Nov. 1.
A new enrollment period for health insurance under the federal Marketplace will start Monday.
Enrollment periods under the Affordable Care Act usually end by mid-winter but President Biden has re-opened it for three months in response to cutbacks to the ACA under former President Trump.
Trump had reduced the signup period for insurance by half, to just six weeks. It ended Dec. 15. Despite that cutback more people in New Hampshire signed up for insurance through the federal Marketplace than in the year prior: 46,684 in 2020, as compared to 44,581 in 2019. Officials attributed this increase at least partly to job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Marisa E. Poncia
Despite initial obstacles because of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 rounded out to be the busiest year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) enforcement in the United States in nearly two decades. In the fourth quarter, US agencies challenged five transactions. November 2020 saw the most premerger filings in any month since 2001. Mergers and filings in the United States are predicted to remain at high levels into the new year in light of the current economic climate. The antitrust agencies have continued to maintain that their evaluation and investigation of anticompetitive harm will remain rigorous despite the uncertain times.
Beating back the coronavirus pandemic increasingly looks to be a long-term project. New, more transmissible strains that reduce the potency of vaccines will likely require repeat immunizations or updated shots to be fully tamed.
Drugmakers are now drawing up their response. As a first step, they plan to test whether additional boosters of authorized vaccines will be enough to protect against new strains, or whether they ll need to adjust for mutations from the original SARS-CoV-2 virus that jumped into humans one year ago.
Rather than a one-time emergency, coronavirus vaccine development could become a more enduring business, with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla recently suggesting shots may be given annually, as they are with influenza. The possibility raises important implications about how the vaccines will be paid for and distributed.