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Month: July 2021

As the Delta variant helps fuel a surge in Covid-19 hospitalizations in the US

Hospitalized Covid-19 patients are asking for the vaccine — when it’s too late, two health care workers say

By Jason Hanna, CNN As the Delta variant helps fuel a surge in Covid-19 hospitalizations in the US, unvaccinated patients are regretting their inoculation status, two health care workers say. “When they come into the (hospital) system, they say, ‘Can I get vaccinated?’ And at that point, you can’t,” Alix Zacharski, an intensive care clinical

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California State Sen. Scott Wiener criticized a district appeals court's decision to overturn part of an anti-discrimination bill for LGBTQ nursing home residents that prohibited staff from deliberately misgendering transgender residents.

The intentional misgendering of transgender nursing home residents in California is no longer banned, court rules

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Staff at nursing homes in California are no longer prohibited from deliberately misgendering residents, a California district court ruled this month, saying the ban that was enshrined as part of a 2017 law was a violation of staffers’ freedom of speech. ​Equality California, a nonprofit that aims to protect LGBTQ Californians,

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