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Sick staff. Endless COVID patients. Doctors ‘just scraping by’ as Omicron sweeps hospitals
On a single day this week, 616 staffers called out sick with COVID-19 at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Without nearly a tenth of its workers — doctors, nurses, administrators and janitors — the hospital assigned the National Guard to help with an unrelenting swarm of patients, many of them critically ill. Such scenes around…
IMF Staff Concludes Visit to Chad
October 9, 2021 1:32 PM Chad’s economic and financial situation and medium-term prospects have steadily worsened due to a series of long-lasting shocks since the onset of the pandemic coupled with delays in donor support caused by insufficient progress on debt treatment discussions;Following the financing assurances in support of a debt treatment from the creditor…
F1 team staff unhappy with record 23 races should leave, says Tost
ISTANBUL: Formula One employees who are unhappy with a record 23 races planned for next year should leave, AlphaTauri principal Franz Tost said on Friday (Oct 8). Formula One is due to publish its 2022 calendar at the end of next week but chief executive Stefano Domenicali has already said there will be 23 rounds,…
IBM US staff must be fully vaccinated by December – or go back to bed without pay
And that's regardless of whether they work from home or are in the office All IBM employees in America must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by December 8 – or they’ll be suspended from work with no pay. “IBM’s health and safety practices are driven by science,” a spokesperson for Big Blue told The Register…
Report: WH Staff Veto Joe Biden, Keep Him from Taking Democrat Lawmakers’ Questions
President Joe Biden’s staff members prevented the president from taking questions during a Democrat caucus meeting on Capitol Hill, amid high-stakes negotiations that have imperiled his multi-trillion-dollar agenda and exasperated the schism between the party’s corporatist and socialist factions. Politico reporter Sarah Ferris said Biden offered to take questions from Democrat lawmakers upon concluding his remarks,…
CDC Staff: After Third Dose for the Immunocompromised, Hold Off on ‘Booster’
Immunocompromised people who received an additional dose of COVID-19 vaccine are among those not yet indicated for boosters, and the jury is still out on boosters for previously infected individuals, CDC staff said on Tuesday. During a call with clinicians, CDC staff clarified the definitions of "additional dose" and "booster dose," noting that an additional…