Cash-starved hospitals and doctor groups cut staff amid coronavirus crisis
Hospitals across the country have deferred or canceled non-urgent surgeries. But that triage maneuver cut off a main source of income, causing huge losses that have forced some hospitals to let go of health-care workers as they struggle to treat infected patients.
Rush University Medical Center was built to withstand natural disasters and biohazard incidents. It's putting that preparation to use now. (The Post)
This hospital was built for a pandemic
Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center, built in the shadow of 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, was designed to handle waves of patients, expand its bed capacity and control airflow to prevent cross-contamination. Now the facility faces its first major test.
The coronavirus was spreading. The parties went on. Now comes the pain.
Large get-togethers that continued after a pandemic was declared have left the country dealing with the fallout: covid-19 clusters that were seeded before officials shut down gatherings that medical experts had warned would be perfect vehicles for the disease’s spread.
Trump forges ahead with broader agenda even as pandemic grips nation
In some cases, the president is using the broad powers granted to the executive branch in national crises to pursue long-sought policy goals that he has struggled to achieve.
Did Ohio get it right? Early intervention, preparation for pandemic may pay off.
Ohio, which started getting ready for the novel coronavirus before any cases appeared there, has fewer than a third the number of people with the virus as comparably sized states.
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Ted Kelly of the Philadelphia Unemployment Project has become the receptacle for a city’s pain amid mass layoffs.
Emergency public health measures have led to a 56 percent drop in unlawful border crossings from Mexico, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection now has fewer than 100 people in custody.
Linda Tripp on Dec. 14, 1998, in Washington. (AP)
America cast former White House secretary Linda Tripp as the villain in the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. History will remember her, just not in the way she ever hoped or imagined.
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A green solution to an aging stormwater system
Climate change means more floods, which overwhelm urban sewers and send raw sewage into waterways. Philadelphia is aiming to capture rainwater before it flows into drains.
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Hundreds of young Americans have now been killed by the coronavirus, data shows
While the novel coronavirus might be most threatening to the old and compromised, no one is immune.
Perspective
John Prine’s lyrical one-liners could take your breath away
The songwriting legend, who died Tuesday of covid-19 complications, knew how to land a punchline.
