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It s been close to a year since the majority of companies asked their office-based employees to start working from home until further notice (thanks, coronavirus pandemic). Whether or not certain employers start or have already started letting their staff back to the office by now, remote work continues to be a preferable and/or necessary setup for a lot of professionals. In other words, there s never been a better time to seek remote roles.
Pandemic health concerns aside, the flexibility and freedom that working from home provides has always made it enticing. In fact, well before the COVID crisis, remote work was on the rise: The number of people telecommuting in the U.S. increased 159 percent between 2005 and 2017, according to an analysis by FlexJobs and Global Workplace Analytics. Remote employees can live and work from anywhere coffee shops, a home office, across th
Amid all your mask-wearing, travel-canceling, quarantining, and social distancing over the last 10 months, you may have wondered at some point: Have all these precautions not only helped me avoid spreading and catching COVID-19, but also avoid picking up a nasty flu this flu season? If so, your instincts may be spot on. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirm that many regions, including the U.S., have seen, and continue to see, significantly low influenza activity during the coronavirus pandemic. The percentage of U.S. respiratory specimens submitted for influenza testing that tested positive decreased from [above] 20 percent to 2.3 precent, and has remained at historically low interseasonal levels (0.2 percent versus 1 to 2 percent), the CDC announced in a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report in September 2020. And as of its latest Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report update (for the week ending January 2, 2021): Seasonal influenza activit
After almost a year of unparalleled uncertainty and crisis and a pandemic-related death toll of nearly 300,000 Americans there’s finally a beam of light at the end of the long, COVID-19 tunnel. On Friday, December 11, the U.S. and Drug Administration (FDA) issued emergency use authorization to the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine for the prevention of the coronavirus disease in people ages 16 and older.
The FDA confirmed the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine reported to be safe and 95 percent effective in preventing disease in a massive clinical trial, and already approved in several countries, including Canada and Britain has met the required criteria for emergency use authorization issuance. No time was wasted getting the very first shipment of doses out to hospitals and medical centers nationwide over the weekend through Pfizer’s distribution network. Pfizer has said it hopes to deliver up to 100 million doses this year and another 1.3 billion doses next year.
want to wish billy joel a very, very happy birthday. i m not sure how old he is. 63. is he 63? 63. i m right behind you, billy. god bless you. last night it was a nail biter and you probably stayed up late if you watched this and a lot of people did. it was the finale of the voice. there was so much drama, and it came down to four, juliette luka, chris simms and jermaine paul. everybody had their favorites. and it was whittled down to juliette and jermaine at the end. okay. and can i say just one thing? i tweeted during the show. such a showoff. it appeared. my question is who got a picture of the tweet on tv? amanda. really? amanda is quick. click. she sits there with her iphone and waits for something. what did you tweet? get a life. get a life, amanda. i tweeted team jermaine. thought provoking. tweets aren t supposed to be thought provoking. it s supposed to be simple. both of us picked jermaine. yes, we did. and we were right.
i m not sure how old he is. 63. is he 63? 63. i m right behind you, billy. god bless you. last night it was a nail biter and you probably stayed up late if you watched this and a lot of people did. it was the finale of the voice. there was so much drama, and it came down to four, juliette luka, chris simms and jermaine paul. everybody had their favorites. and it was whittled down to juliette and jermaine at the end. okay. and can i say just one thing? i tweeted during the show. such a showoff. it appeared. my question is who got a picture of the tweet on tv? amanda. really? amanda is quick. click. she sits there with her iphone and waits for something. what did you tweet? get a life. get a life, amanda. i tweeted team jermaine. thought provoking. tweets aren t supposed to be thought provoking. it s supposed to be simple. both of upicked jermaine. yes, we did. and we were right. so we re not going look at that moment? let s watch t