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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On February 26, 2021, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued Disaster Notice 2021-01, conveying much-awaited and somewhat surprising guidance on the extensions of COBRA, HIPAA special enrollment and ERISA claims deadlines during the COVID-19 Outbreak Period.    Last April, the DOL and IRS issued a joint rule “disregarding” the period from March 1, 2020 through the date 60 days after the end of the coronavirus National Emergency (“Outbreak Period”) for purposes of calculating the deadlines for COBRA elections and premiu...

‘I’ve forgotten how to make small talk’: Are you suffering from re-entry anxiety? After a year of lockdown, psychologists fear our social skills might have regressed. Might we become a nation of hermits? 4 March 2021 • 6:00pm Izzy Rose says thinking about going back to how busy she was before the pandemic makes her anxious Credit: Paul Grover for The Telegraph Before March of last year, Izzy Rose rarely spent an evening in. At 21 she was thriving on the first rungs of her career in music and fashion marketing; weeknights usually meant networking events at swish hotels, where she colle...

AVERY COUNTY — Before March 2020, words and concepts such as Zoom, distance education and telehealth were not as common in the English lexicon. However, over the past year, students in Avery County schools have certainly become familiar with this vernacular, especially with the latter, now that telehealth services are available for students across the school system. The program, courtesy of the Center for Rural Health Innovation, partners with local schools in order to improve access to healthcare in rural communities through innovation. CRHI was formed in 2010 and began its Health-e-Sch...

  MONTREAL -- Before March 2020, Ella Huot-Attia loved her dance classes that helped the young girl combat a rare neurological disorder she was diagnosed with when she was six. Then COVID-19 hit, and the nine-year-old's condition drastically declined. "It feels like someone is kind of stabbing me in the legs every 15 minutes," said Ella. With no dance, classrooms and other external services running that help her body fight off the pain, seizures and spasms she suffers from, Ella is now almost always stationary. "She's in bed 90 per cent of the day, can't go to school, can't go to the b...

Realscreen’s Trailblazers: Fest directors on 2020′s “massive learning curve” Before March of last year, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic marked a strange, murky period for those in the film festival industry. Internationally, government policies to attempt to ... January 14, 2021 Before March of last year, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic marked a strange, murky period for those in the film festival industry. Intern...