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☆ Surge in cases of RSV, a virus that can severely sicken infants, is filling hospital beds
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Aria Bendix | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

He tested positive for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a common virus that causes lung infections. Aesop was moved to a pediatric ICU on Tuesday after his heart and breathing rates soared. Many RSV patients in Massachusetts are being transferred to nearby states, she added. At Comer Children's Hospital in Chicago, hospital and ICU beds have been full for over a month. He said the volume of RSV patients is "two to three times what we've ever experienced."

☆ Surge in RSV, virus that can severely sicken infants, fills hospital beds
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Aria Bendix | Aria Bendix Is The Breaking Health Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

He tested positive for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a common virus that causes lung infections. Aesop was moved to a pediatric ICU on Tuesday after his heart and breathing rates soared. Many RSV patients in Massachusetts are being transferred to nearby states, she added. At Comer Children’s Hospital in Chicago, hospital and ICU beds have been full for over a month. He said the volume of RSV patients is "two to three times what we’ve ever experienced."

☆ Former day care workers at Air Force base accused of spraying children in the face with cleaning liquid
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A federal grand jury handed down a 30-count indictment alleging that former Robins Air Force Base day care employees Zhanay Kiana Flynn, 27, and Antanesha Mone Fritz, 29, abused children in their care in January and February 2021. The indictment charged Flynn, Fritz and former day care director Latona Mae Lambert, 51, with one count each of failing to report suspected child abuse. “Properly caring for our Airmen and their families is of utmost importance," a spokesperson for Robins Air Force Base said in a statement. We are fully supporting the ongoing investigation and reviewing processes to ensure the appropriate measures are in place to safeguard our children.”An investigation into the allegations is ongoing by the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations and Air Force Security Forces, with support from the FBI, according to the Justice Department. According to the Department of Defense, child care centers on military bases are randomly inspected at least four times a year and receive accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children or a similar body.

For several nights the sound of 34-year-old Panya Khamrap’s 9 mm pistol cracked the silence in the sleepy village of Tha Uthai, neighbours said. Another neighbour said that days before his rampage the village chief warned Panya about his behaviour. They argued and the village chief was afraid, said the neighbour, Suwan Tonsomsen. Another neighbour told Reuters he had seen Panya's mother with his degree certificate. Teachers in the nursery had put the children down for their nap by the time Panya arrived at around 12:30 p.m.

More than two dozen people were rushed to hospitals in eastern Pennsylvania on Tuesday following an apparent carbon monoxide leak at a day care center, officials said. When firefighters arrived, their monitors for carbon monoxide in the atmosphere immediately went off, Christopher told reporters at the scene. A “vast majority” of the hospitalized were children of “pre-K to elementary school-age,” Christopher later told NBC News. All of those hospitalized were stable and none of them were listed in serious condition, he said. There were no carbon monoxide monitors in the building, officials said.

☆ Waymo workers form union in the latest push to organize Silicon Valley
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Eli M. Rosenberg | Eli Rosenberg Is An Investigative Tech Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Food service employees at the autonomous driving company Waymo are forming a union, the latest push by support workers to organize at Silicon Valley's most prominent companies. The workers are employed by Sodexo, which contracts service work for Google and other companies. "We are confident this one will also reach an amicable agreement for workers, the union, and our client very soon." The workers are part of Silicon Valley's ranks of contractors who support and supplement the work at tech companies. Her team unionized in 2020, and some of them have been joining meetings with the Waymo workers to show them the ropes of organizing and talk up the union.

☆ Jobs report: The US job market remains robust, but is showing signs of cooling
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-07 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Minneapolis CNN Business —The fever hasn’t broken yet for America’s employment market, but the temperature is coming down. That, coupled with job openings showing some sharp declines, points to a labor market slowdown — an outcome the Federal Reserve is seeking as it battles decades-high inflation. “The job market is slowing gracefully, moderating jobs and wage growth smoothly as the Federal Reserve searches for signs of cooling inflation,” Daniel Zhao, senior economist for Glassdoor, said in a statement. What could, however, move the needle will be the findings from the inflation data due next week, he said. Job openings outpace job seekers on a 1.7 to 1 ratio, the BLS’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for August showed.

☆ Opinion: The Fed doesn’t have a choice anymore. Get ready for a recession
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-07 | by ( Gad Levanon For Cnn Business Perspectives | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

On the other hand, overall employment growth has been much stronger than normal. Why has employment growth remained so strong? And it’s likely that these represent structural changes to buying patterns that will keep demand high. Employment growth is likely to slow down from its historically high rates, but it will still remain solid in the coming months. The only option that leaves the Fed is to engineer a recession by continuing to raise interest rates.

☆ Alabama grandfather is charged in hot car death of toddler, drove vehicle 3 times that day, prosecutor says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

An Alabama grandfather charged in connection with his grandson’s hot car death returned to the vehicle three times without realizing the 2-year-old boy was still inside, officials said. Arrest warrants were issued Wednesday for William "Bill" Wiesman, one day after Ian Wiesman's death. She told reporters that Wiesman got in his truck and drove it three times throughout the day on Tuesday. "Upon arrival, Ian's aunt came out to the truck and found Ian deceased in the back-driver's seat of Wiesman's truck," the documents state. There have been at least 26 hot car deaths this year, according to Kids and Car Safety.

☆ Feds charge dozens in Minnesota in alleged scheme to steal $250 million in pandemic aid
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Prosecutors say few meals were actually served, and the defendants used the money to buy luxury cars, property and jewelry. "This $250 million is the floor," Andy Luger, the U.S. attorney for Minnesota, said at a news conference. According to court documents, the alleged scheme targeted the USDA's federal child nutrition programs, which provide food to low-income children and adults. But during the pandemic, some of the standard requirements for sites to participate in the federal food nutrition programs were waived. Luger said the scheme involved more than 125 million fake meals, with some defendants making up names for children by using an online random name generator.

☆ This Vietnamese Dish Is Comforting, Luminous and Striking. It’s Also Forgiving.
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-31 | by ( Bryan Washington | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

My first bites of bánh cuốn were hardly intentional — they came from a banh mi shop tucked in Houston’s Third Ward. I’d been working at a day care, and also a stadium’s parking company, and most of what I ate came from this tiny Vietnamese spot. Several weeks after that he just handed me a bag of boxed bánh cuốn, with separate tins for fish sauce and bean sprouts, alongside an edict: enough. Eating streetside bánh cuốn in the morning, in the hubbub of other diners, over a stool and folding table, is basically a miracle. The thickness of your bánh cuốn might vary from restaurant to restaurant, and also your fillings, but you’ll still find yourself won over from iteration to iteration.

Persons: bánh, I’d, Sir, ”, “ Bryan, “, đá, Jerry Mai, you’ll, you’ve Organizations: Food Locations: Vietnam, Food Vietnam, Bellaire

☆ The Ayahuasca Diaries
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-26 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +37 min

But please understand: I didn't drink ayahuasca so I could write an article about it. I wrote an article about it so I could drink ayahuasca. I was desperate to drink ayahuasca — I had been for several months, in fact — and the formality of an assignment would help me out at home. Instead, a friend of a friend linked me up with an ayahuasca sangha, a Buddhist word for a spiritual community. I thought of my old friend, Scott, who, many years before, had declined an opportunity to drink ayahuasca.

☆ Performance evaluations at Amazon are so predatory and opaque, they drove me to quit. Here's how I navigated the worst weeks of my career.
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-20 | by ( Patrick Mcgah | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The system is so opaque it took reporters from The Seattle Times and Insider for actual Amazon employees to find out what it entails. The first rule of Focus is: You do not talk about FocusIn February, after my team's performance evaluations, my manager told me I'd been rated as a low performer. He told me the company policy is not to inform employees they are on Focus unless they ask directly. My manager didn't agree with the decision, but the director of engineering had the final say. A spokesperson for Amazon said the company regularly reviews performance ratings and other people processes to ensure they are fair and effective.

☆ I had a difficult pregnancy and complications afterward — and my options for maternity leave made everything far worse
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-18 | by ( Jacquelynn Kerubo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

She had to agree to return to work for at least six months after her leave was up. It provides six weeks of fully paid leave and up to 12 weeks total when combined with sick and annual leave. I had eight weeks of combined annual and sick leave, which meant I could take the full 12 weeks off. A coworker told me she took six weeks of paid leave and eight weeks of unpaid leave. 6 weeks of paid leave isn't enough for anyone.

While your intentions might be good, naming a minor as a life insurance beneficiary can cause significant complications because life insurance policies can't be disbursed to minors. Instead, it is better to establish a trust for your child and name the trust as the beneficiary of your life insurance. Problems with naming a minor as your life insurance beneficiaryAs noted by AAA Life Insurance, "Minor children cannot directly receive the proceeds of a life insurance policy. Steps for establishing a life insurance trust for your childrenHere are the steps you'll need to take to establish a life insurance trust for your children. If you are concerned about providing for your child in case something happens to you, it is better to establish a trust for your child and make the trust the beneficiary of your life insurance policy.

☆ Marea Britanie este prima țară care a aprobat vaccinul anti-COVID produs de Pfizer. Va începe distribuția și vaccinarea chiar de săptămâna viitoare
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-02 | by ( Diana Severin | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +2 min

Marea Britanie este prima țară care a aprobat vaccinul anti-COVID produs de Pfizer. Marea Britanie a comandat deja 40 de milioane de doze – suficient pentru a vaccina 20 de milioane de oameni, cu câte două doze fiecare. Ieri, Agenția Europeană a Medicamentului anunța „că va decide cel mai târziu” pe 29 decembrie o eventuală autorizare a vaccinului Pfizer anti-COVID, iar pe 12 ianuarie în cazul vaccinului Moderna. Compania americană spunea că a trecut de toate fazele de testare clinică și că serul a dovedit o eficiență de peste 90%, rată pe care a corectat-o ulterior la 95%. Vaccinul Pfizer are nevoie o infrastructură specială de transport și depozitare, fiind necesară păstrarea sa la -71 de grade.

Organizations: Agenția, BBC, Agenția Europeană Locations: Oxford

Insider's experts choose the best products and services to help make smart decisions with your money (here’s how). Personal finance site WalletHub released updated data on the best and worst US cities for retirees, and looked at affordability as a main factor. Retirees are most likely to find low taxes and care costs in the south and southeast. Many cities in Florida, Texas, and Alabama made the list, including Jacksonville, Tampa, Mobile, and San Antonio. Here are the 17 most affordable cities for retirees, along with data on each state's tax rates via WalletHub and median senior day care costs from AARP.

☆ Only 18 out of 890 major US companies are fully transparent on worker issues — and that openness is helping them grow their bottom line
▼ + stars: | 2019-04-17 | by ( Richard Feloni | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Only 18 companies disclosed all nine of the practices taken into consideration, including Goldman Sachs, Nike, Nvidia, and PepsiCo. Just's team of researchers gathered all public data on nine criteria related to what it calls "human capital." The team discovered that only 18 of the companies both disclosed and tracked the progress of all the criteria. It was initially acceptable to simply state a policy, but then stakeholders demanded increasingly extensive data and signs of progress. "I don't think that you have much of a choice these days, if you're a larger company," she said.

Persons: Paul Tudor Jones, Russell, Goldman Sachs, It's, Martin Whittaker, you've, it's, Whittaker, Alison, millennials, Eli Lilly, Jones Lang LaSalle, Read, Tonie Hansen, Hansen Organizations: Nike, Nvidia, PepsiCo, Service, ROE, Data Systems, Boston Scientific, Hasbro, Intel, PayPal, Qualcomm, State, Symantec, Texas Instruments Locations: BusinessInsider.com, Wall, Silicon, America, Marriott, Wells

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