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SEATTLE The Mariners are the first team in Major League Baseball that will make COVID-19 vaccines available to fans attending games at T-Mobile Park.
The club announced plans Monday to do so via a partnership with the City of Seattle and Sounders FC, which began executing a similar process at its match on Sunday.
The plan is for this to be an ongoing availability at Mariners home games until further notice, beginning with Tuesday’s 7:10 p.m. PT contest against the Orioles.
No appointment is needed. Vaccines will be offered on a walk-up basis at three locations inside T-Mobile Park:
Posted: May 04, 2021 2:37 PM AT | Last Updated: May 4
A person gets the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination at a mobile clinic in Montreal.(Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press)
As cancer patients, organ transplant recipients, and other vulnerable populations start to receive their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, some are turning their minds to the next one.
Those with a lowered immune system are wondering whether Nova Scotia s firm commitment to an age-based rollout will extend to the second dose. If they are going to go that [age-based] route, I understand it, said Karen Chiasson, who was raised in Cape Breton and now lives in Calgary.
Black Patients Less Likely To Receive Diagnostic Imaging At Emergency Departments
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Black patients are less likely to receive diagnostic medical imaging during a hospital visit, studies show and that might lead to a range of health disparities, experts say.
X-rays, MRI exams and other imaging are among the first lines of defense in a hospital. If patients are not offered these services in a timely manner, some conditions can go undiagnosed and may result in complications and worse outcomes.
“We know, for example, that minorities have increased mortality from cancers of a variety of types, said Dr. Andrew Ross, assistant professor of radiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. They often present at later stages of cancer diagnosis.”
Yves here. Established institutions like the New York Times trying to bring in new audiences/consumers often make pratfalls. The results too often look like a middle aged man or woman getting a trainer and some plastic surgery and pursuing younger…as in awfully young….lovers.
The Grey Lady’s efforts have often been mercenary, like driving out serious business reporters as they kept elevating Wall Street’s favorite promoter, Andrew Ross Sorkin. And some are head-scratchers, like “Who even thought it was worth the effort to rebrand ‘op ed’ because it wasn’t inclusive enough?” As in you had to be an old fart to recognize that it derived from “opposite the editorial page?” So in the interest of not making young people feel left out, we must also get rid of expressions like “spanner in the works” (from industrial sabotage and therefore exclusionary because presumes knowledge of history), “rein in” (because from horse riding and therefore aristocratic) and �
How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream
Illustrations by Lyndon Hayes
In the summer of 2007, Thomas Gokey had just graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he was thinking about how much his degree had cost him. His diploma was a simple piece of paper, but it came with a price tag of thousands of dollars dollars that were themselves pieces of paper, transmitted to him in the form of student loans, which he now owed to the federal government. While chewing on this thought, he had an idea for a project that would occupy him for much of the next year. He obtained a letter of permission from the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing to go to a Federal Reserve bank of his choice and pick out some shredded bills from its stores of mutilated currency. One day, he walked over to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, five blocks from the Art Institute, and asked for some money.