Professor: Bring COVID-19 vaccine to tailgaters during football season
With football stadiums going back to full capacity this year, one group is trying to bring COVID-19 vaccinations to tailgaters.
BALTIMORE, MD, October 8, 2024 – New findings from a team of renowned researchers calls for transparency and rigorous oversight of the U.S. Medicare Advantage (MA) program, the United States’ largest healthcare capitation program.
Hurricane Milton is barrelling toward the west coast of Florida. Meteorologists predict the storm will make landfall Wednesday at a level of either Category 3 or 4, in what one Wall Street analyst predicts could inflict between $50 to $175 billion worth of losses on the Tampa/Fort Myers region. Millions of residents have been ordered to evacuate.
Aided by intense pressure from senior Biden administration officials, the shipping companies, represented by the U.S. Maritime Alliance, significantly increased the raise they were offering the dockworkers to 62% from their previous offer of a 50% boost in pay. The International Longshoremen’s Association, the dockworkers’ union, was seeking a 77% raise, but it accepted the new offer, which will be phased in over six years.
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With football stadiums going back to full capacity this year, one group is trying to bring COVID-19 vaccinations to tailgaters.
Universities should require COVID-19 vaccines. There is much data available to support such mandates.
Dr. Tinglong Dai, a professor of Operations Management and Business Analytics at the Carey School of Business, has dedicated his career to investigating the interplay between supply chains and healthcare. He says the public should not be pessimistic about the U.S. response to COVID-19 given the incredible advances with vaccine development and an unprecedented level of global data collection.
For 14 months, Mark Domitrovich dreamed of a time when his Chicago bar and restaurants would again be filled with the buzz and chatter of happy customers. On June 11, the day he had been waiting for finally came: the state of Illinois allowed all businesses that had been affected by COVID-19 restrictions to fully reopen.
The pandemic put a spotlight on weak links in the nation’s supply chain. There was the hunt for toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic. Masks, surgical gowns and gloves were hard to find. These shortages were partly blamed on a “just-in-time” inventory system companies have used for decades, ordering just enough parts to come in at just the right time to sell or use on the production line.
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