As the nation takes a day to memorialize its military dead, living military veterans are facing a deadly risk that has nothing to do with war or conflict: the coronavirus.
Different groups and communities have faced different degrees of danger from the pandemic, exemplified by the humanitarian disaster in India and the inequalities in U.S. health outcomes, vaccine distribution problems and outright rejection of vaccines. Veterans have been among the most hard-hit, with heightened health and economic threats from the pandemic. These veterans face homelessness, lack of health care, delays in receiving financial support and even death.
I have spent the past six years studying veterans with substance use and mental health disorders who are in the criminal justice system. This work revealed gaps in health care and financial support for veterans,
The Terre Haute Police Department Merit Commission on Wednesday affirmed the six-day suspension and six months of additional supervision for a city police sergeant disciplined over inflammatory social media posts.
We are very disappointed, said Joan Doyle of O Kelly s jewellers on Bray s Main Street on the latest restrictions placed on retailers. We re a small family business and we ve been in Bray since the 1950s, she said, speaking last Thursday on the final day of opening. It will definitely be hard, said Joan. ;Myself, my son Sean and my two brothers are all involved in it so the whole family is now back on the PUP probably.
They will try click and collect, which worked well in November, although in November people were buying Christmas presents. January is a lean month at the best of times, said Joan.
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VA workers: Short-staffing and PPE shortages impacting vets’ care December 23, 2020 8:51 AM CDT By Mark Gruenberg
Nurses and other Veterans Administration employees join a demonstration organized by National Nurses United outside the Brooklyn Veterans Administration Medical Center, April 6, 2020, in New York, to call for more personal protective equipment (PPE) and staffing assistance to care for those affected by the current coronavirus outbreak. Eight months later, VA workers say major problems remain. | Kathy Willens / AP
WASHINGTON Short-staffing. Temp nurses hired off the street who are more interested in paychecks than patients. No N95 masks for months. Arbitrary management decisions with workers and their union cut out of the loop. No input on how to
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VA workers: Short-staffing and PPE shortages impacting vets’ care December 23, 2020 8:51 AM CDT By Mark Gruenberg
Nurses and other Veterans Administration employees join a demonstration organized by National Nurses United outside the Brooklyn Veterans Administration Medical Center, April 6, 2020, in New York, to call for more personal protective equipment (PPE) and staffing assistance to care for those affected by the current coronavirus outbreak. Eight months later, VA workers say major problems remain. | Kathy Willens / AP
WASHINGTON Short-staffing. Temp nurses hired off the street who are more interested in paychecks than patients. No N95 masks for months. Arbitrary management decisions with workers and their union cut out of the loop. No input on how to