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Libby Rosenthal knows how to start a movement. In 2013, the physician-turned-journalist started publishing a series of exposés about medical bills, beginning with colonoscopy, pregnancy and delivery, and total hip replacement. She described everyday Americans struggling with outrageous, inexplicable bills, and the stress of negotiating with hospitals and with insurance companies.
New York Times readers deluged her with their own accounts of billing misadventures, so many, in fact, that Rosenthal set up a Facebook group (“Paying Till It Hurts”) and invited readers to post their stories and their bills. It became a self-help network for thousands of fuming, frustrated people seeking solutions to their unintelligible bills.
Air purifiers are being installed, vaccinations will be offered to improve health and safety in state prisons
New air purifiers installed in prisons for health and safety By WECT Staff | January 7, 2021 at 6:40 PM EST - Updated January 7 at 11:40 PM
RALEIGH, N.C. (WECT) - Despite recent declines in COVID-19 cases in some state prisons, nearly 4,000 air purifiers are being installed in the ductwork of 53 North Carolina prisons to combat the spread of coronavirus.
Costing a total of $1.8 million, the IWave air purifiers work by making the virus particles heavier and easier to filter.
“The health and safety of the staff and the offenders in our custody is our number one priority,” said Commissioner of Prisons Todd Ishee. “These devices will help to stop the airborne spread of the virus in our facilities and is another tool to use in our ongoing efforts to mitigate the impact of this awful virus.”
John Dillard Pettigrew Jr.
SUPPLY John Dillard Pettigrew Jr., 67, affectionally known as “Dad,” “John Boy,” and “Papaw,” passed away Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, at his home surrounded by his loving family after fighting glioblastoma cancer for several months.
He was born Dec. 2, 1953, in Gastonia, the son of the late John Dillard Pettigrew Sr. and June Thomas Pettigrew. He was also preceded in death by a son, William Thomas “Tommy” Pettigrew Sr.
Mr. Pettigrew was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He was a supervisor for UPS in Charlotte for many years. He retired from the post office in Shallotte. He never met a stranger and loved being around people. He loved the outdoors, being around nature and drew strength for what God had made.
For pregnant and nursing women, risks of COVID-19 probably outweigh risk of vaccine, experts say
According to a November study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pregnant women are significantly more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit, to end up on a ventilator, and to die from COVID-19 than women of the same age and health status who aren t pregnant.
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A nurse administers a COVID-19 vaccine at George Washington University Hospital on Dec. 14, 2020 in Washington, D.C.. Jacquelyn Martin / Pool / Getty Images / TNS