The relief plan includes $1,400 stimulus checks, additional benefits for the unemployed, as well hundreds of billions of dollars for struggling businesses and local governments.
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County health departments are largely taking on administering the vaccine to community members older than 65, while hospitals have been prioritizing medical staff.
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The change means that doctors will no longer need a special federal waiver in order to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication to treat opioid use disorder.
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Rivkees told a Senate committee he’s hopeful the state will get a larger allocation due to its outsized senior population. Of the shots given so far, 60% went to people in the 65- and-over group.
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Representatives of hospitals, physicians and long-term care facilities say the Legislature needs to make changes to protect them from a potential flood of lawsuits.
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The positivity rate of people who tested positive for the coronavirus for the first time dropped to 8.63%, the lowest it's been since Dec. 27, when it was 9.69%.
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Mask-wearing hit an all-time high, but other COVID-19 precautions are less common now than last spring, a survey finds. Experts worry we're ill-prepared for the spread of more infectious new variants.
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The nation faces a grim milestone of having a record number of overdose deaths in 2020. One expert says social isolation increased the risk of dying from an overdose.
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