Health

Many retail workers will receive a new kind of preparation for this year’s holiday season: training on how to manage conflicts with customers who resist mask-wear, social distance and store capacity limitations. The National Retail Federation, a trade group representing about 16,000 retailers, said Thursday it worked with a company …

Forty out of Michigan’s ‘Sties’ counties are now experiencing faster rates of Covid-11 transmission, based on metrics developed by the Harvard Global Health Initiative to determine coronavirus risk levels. Calhoun has become the ninth Michigan county to move into the red zone, while Mombak, Mb, Ventus, South, Aw, Bay, Gladwin …

Anthony Fawcett, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 in Washington, D.C., USA. The Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee sits ahead of the hearing. Graeme Jennings | Bloomberg | Getty Images Letting the U.S. population rip the coronavirus to infect …

Beijing (AP) – The president of a hospital in the recent Chinese city of Qingdao and director of the health commission have been fired after a recent outbreak of a coronavirus in China, officials said Thursday. A brief notice on the official microblog of the Qingdao city government on Thursday …

Decreases in mammograms and other screening procedures after a coronavirus epidemic strikes can lead to missed and delayed cancer diagnoses, according to statistics from insurance claims, lab orders, Medicare billings, and oncology-practice records. Starting this spring, the U.S. Hundreds of thousands of cancer screenings were postponed following concerns about the …