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The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine has issued a scathing report on the state of nursing homes in the US. “The way in which the United States finances, delivers, and regulates care in nursing home settings is ineffective, inefficient, fragmented, and unsustainable.”

Here we examine some of these emerging substrains and how they could impact viral characteristics like transmission, immune evasion, and virulence.

...owing to Medicare and Medicaid All Inclusive Rates (AIR) for certified Rural Health Clinics (RHC), a pure wRVU comp model may not be tenable...

Researchers said there is a “high probability” fluvoxamine, a cheap and widely available antidepressant pill, is associated with “at least a moderate reduction in Covid-19 hospitalizations.”

The pandemic caused millions to lean in to good old-fashioned bad behavior. Two years later, business has never been better for cannabis, gaming and porn—and the high times are here to stay.

A new Covid-19 variant that combines two different omicron strains has been identified in the United Kingdom, and it could be the fastest-spreading Covid variant yet, according to early data from British public health officials and the WHO.

Early data suggests the variant, which combines BA.1 and BA.2 omicron subvariants, could be 10% more transmissible than the highly infectious “stealth” omicron, the most infectious form of Covid known.

Shanghai reported more than 13,000 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday as the city’s outbreak surges despite an ongoing lockdown, prompting authorities in the Chinese financial hub to indefinitely extend curbs that were scheduled to end on Tuesday.

With this year’s Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups list, we’re looking for companies like alumni DoorDash, Benchling and Alchemy in their nascent days.