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An alert tone sounds over the intercom inside hangar 18 at Melbourne International Airport. A voice crackles with those critical words – “active request” – and pilot and crew leap into action. Within minutes, the helicopter rotors are turning, and Health First’s three-person First Flight crew is airborne.
Brevard's "air ambulance" transports about 800 patients a year, responding to emergency calls across Brevard, Osceola and Indian River counties.
At least in the stock market’s cold-blooded logic, 2020 will be remembered as the year when people became superfluous to the cause of progress. To recap, at a time when the pandemic put 22 million Americans out of work, equity prices nevertheless rose by $5 trillion, thanks to gains in automated tech titans optimized for lockdown commerce. The situation became a symbol for inequality in the virus age, as money flowed to the rich while the poor got hunger and hardship. While economists say there may be a reprieve — their consensus is for unemployment to fall back to 5% by 2022 — evidence...