Gabrielle Emanuel
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The state is a medical hub with giant hospitals and a huge healthcare workforce. Young adults who work in that field are getting the COVID-19 vaccine while at-risk seniors wait on the sidelines.
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Young, healthy researchers in the state are getting vaccinated before seniors even become eligible. Officials have decided all hospital employees belong in the first wave of vaccinations.
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Clinicians in private practice, those who work for staffing agencies and others who are not directly employed by hospitals or long-term care facilities say they have been overlooked in the rollout.
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As hospitals and long-term care facilities roll out COVID-19 vaccines, many in private practice and those who work for staffing agencies, are struggling to get the shot.
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Problems included a glitch with a sign-up app and some staff jumping to the front of the line ahead of medical workers with more exposure to the coronavirus.
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Mass General Brigham hospital system is apologizing for a chaotic start to COVID-19 vaccinations. Critics say the hospital is not making the changes that will ensure equity in who is given priority.
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Some nursing homes and long-term-care facilities say they're struggling to fill shifts as certified nursing assistants opt for unemployment benefits during the pandemic.
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CNAs do key jobs in long-term care facilities, but some of them are choosing not to work right now. They're collecting unemployment and avoiding their high-risk work environments.
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Southern segregationists resented the Freedom Riders who came by bus to protest Jim Crow laws. So in 1962, they tricked black Southerners into migrating north and transformed families' lives forever.
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His sentencing is the culmination of a months-long criminal trial that resulted in the first successful prosecution of pharmaceutical executives tied to the opioid epidemic.