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Melbourne man first in Australia to be convicted over JobKeeper fraud By Tammy Mills A Melbourne man has become the first Australian to be convicted of JobKeeper fraud after pretending to operate a business in order to receive more money from the government during the coronavirus pandemic. Raed Saleh, 33, was convicted in the Heidelberg Magistrates Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to three counts of recklessly making a false statement to the Australian Taxation Office in an attempt to receive $6000 in JobKeeper payments. The Mernda man was fined $3000 and ordered to pay $3000 in compe...
Woman Dies 2 Months After Receiving a Double-Lung Transplant From Someone With COVID-19 Health 2/23/2021 © Provided by Health.com Adobe Stock COVID-19 has made life tough for everybody who needed health care over the last year, but especially challenging for transplant patients. The pandemic has disrupted the referral and listing process, led to the postponement and cancellation of many transplant procedures, and made it more challenging for transplant patients to get the pre- and post-transplant care they require. For one woman with chronic obstructive lung disease, finally getting her ...
Three days after a woman received a double-lung transplant at a Michigan hospital last fall, she became seriously ill. She had difficulty breathing and a high…
The case poses a dilemma for transplant doctors: People who need organ transplants are at high risk for dying without them, but there's no way to definitively prove an organ donor might not be carrying a disease like COVID-19. "You can't 100% prove that someone doesn't have something because we don't have perfect tests," Kaul said. "So we try and put together a combination of their exposures, their clinical history, testing, radiology like a CT-scan of the lung of the donor, which was done and didn't show anything that looked like COVID. "We do all those things and say, 'Well, as best we ...