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Healthcare is in crisis as up to 1,000 workers are off sick every day, new ...

The Daily Mail 27 Dec 2021

Hospital bosses are desperately trying to plug staffing holes as the number of NHS workers off sick rises by nearly 1,000 a day, figures suggest.

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New York City's silent wave

Hot Air 27 Dec 2021

They also voiced concern that leaders are not taking testing and quarantine seriously, expressing unease with new guidance that can be interpreted as working while still sick or contagious ... by creating negative pressure rooms that contain virus particles shed by sick patients.

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‘These vaccines are working’: Queensland records low COVID hospitalisation numbers

The Daily Telegraph Australia 27 Dec 2021

Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr John Gerrard says the lack of hospitalised COVID patients who are significantly sick shows ...

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Alan Garrett: A (healthcare) Christmas Carol

Nevada Appeal 27 Dec 2021

Many, many people were sick. There was so many sick that those who cared for them in the infirmary were weary and tired to the bone ... Technology, strange machines called computers and Electronic Medical Records, were helping those caring for the sick to do so better than ever before.

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Thousands of holiday air travelers stranded amid Omicron surge

China Daily 27 Dec 2021

"Like many businesses and organizations, we have seen an increasing number of sick calls from Omicron," a spokesperson for New York-based Jet Blue said in a statement, CNBC reported ... 4,000-plus EMS workers called out sick Saturday. The average sick-day rate is about 5 percent.

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Edmonton Oilers in the dark, McDavid bitterly disappointed

Toronto Sun 27 Dec 2021

Will they play? Will they sit? What are the test numbers? What happens with US travel? Is anyone even getting sick? Advertisement ... “For a few days, I was a little bit sick, but probably nothing worse than a head cold,” said Nugent-Hopkins, adding he would have normally played right though something like that. “I’ve definitely had worse sicknesses.”.

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Commentary: Without context, COVID tallies are misleading

Johnson City Press 27 Dec 2021

the number of healthy and the number of sick soldiers, inside and outside hospitals ... Had the text focused solely on people who became sick, a reader might have been misled about the risk of the disease, or led to look for its causes in the wrong place ... Those who became sick seemed ...

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Covid: Taxi firms want more support over downturn

BBC News 27 Dec 2021

Taxi drivers and firms have said the industry needs urgent support for those facing financial hardship ... Ian Fountain, of Cab Smart in Ipswich, said ... He said ... The Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme is also being reintroduced, meaning business with fewer than 250 employees can claim money to cover sick pay for employees affected by Covid ... Find BBC News ... .

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John-David Duggar and Abbie Grace Burnett share adorable family photo for Christmas

m&c; 27 Dec 2021

John-David Duggar and Abbie Grace Burnett shared an updated family photo for Christmas. Pic credit. TLC. John-David Duggar and Abbie Grace Burnett shared an updated family photo on Christmas Day ... Gracie Duggar is adorable in new photo ... View this post on Instagram ... Abbie was so sick during her pregnancy, and she kept getting sick ... .

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Australia records its first death with the Omicron variant – a man in his 80s ...

The Daily Mail 27 Dec 2021

The man's death comes amid reports the majority of sick Covid patients in intensive care units or on ventilators have been struck down by the Delta variant which swept the nation in mid-2021. NSW Health released data on who is actually sick with Covid even as cases surge, finding Delta is responsible for most of the state's severe cases ... .

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A day after giving birth, I was asked back to work. America needs paid family leave

The Observer 27 Dec 2021

I’m guessing he has never known the panic of worrying you might lose your job – or not have enough in your paycheck to pay essential bills – because you need to miss work to care for a sick child or handle a family emergency ... or attending to a sick relative or family emergency.

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Airlines canceled more than 2,000 flights on Monday as rising Omicron cases wreak havoc on ...

Business Insider 27 Dec 2021

Hong Kong said on Saturday that some arrivals had tested positive for the virus.Omicron has caused a wave of airline staff sickness ... A JetBlue spokesperson told Fox Business that there were an "increasing number of sick calls from Omicron" and that the airline was trying to cancel flights that would cause the least disruption to passengers ... ....

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Peter Andre ‘starved himself’ to maintain famous six-pack amid ‘unhealthy relationship with food’

Metro UK 27 Dec 2021

Peter Andre’s famed six-pack came at a high cost to his wellbeing (Picture. Rex/ Getty) ... He admitted to The Sun ... Pete revealed he was ‘always getting sick’ in the 90s as he had ‘no body fat at all’ by restricting what he ate and avoiding any fat in his food ... ‘I would be totally ripped and I would exercise all the time — but I was constantly sick ... ....

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U.S. airlines call off more flights as Omicron variant advances

Sina 27 Dec 2021

airlines canceled hundreds of more flights on Sunday, the third day in a row of mass cancellations and delays over Christmas weekend, as staff and crew call out sick amid the Omicron surge," reported CNN, adding that almost 700 U.S.

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Made In Chelsea star Sophie Habboo shares sweet snaps from Jamie Laing's proposal to her... ...

The Daily Mail 27 Dec 2021

Jamie said he thought she had food poisoning and insisted they hadn't drank 'extortionately' the night before, saying they fell back to sleep before Sophie woke up at 7.15am again being sick ... before, saying they fell back to sleep before Sophie woke up at 7.15am again being sick.