Nursing home COVID toll spikes 2020 revealed by watchdog
The inspector general report shows Medicare nursing home deaths jumped 169,291 from 2019 to 2020 with two major spikes. April and December saw the largest death counts, while Asian as well as Black and Hispanic residents faced higher death rate increases amid vaccine rollout and policy gaps.
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Department of Health and Human Services
Harvard Health Policy
David Grabowski
Associated Press
Grabowski
Medicare
Puerto Rico
New York City
Nancy Harrison
Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services
Nursing Home
Inspector General
Tamara Konetzka
University of Chicago
Konetzka
Congress
Connecticut
Illinois
Louisiana
New Jersey
Trump
HHS
Biden
Harrison
COVID
Cobble Hill Health Center
Brooklyn
New York
Last push before NYC mayoral primary under ranked choice
Thirteen Democrats and two Republicans rally voters as New Yorkers vote in the first citywide election using ranked choice voting. Brooklyn's Eric Adams leads polls with Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley close behind. results may not be known until July as ballots are tallied through multiple rounds.
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New York City
Bill de Blasio
Brooklyn
Eric Adams
Kathryn Garcia
de Blasio
Maya Wiley
Andrew Yang
Adams
103Rd Precinct
Board of Elections
Powell says high inflation temporary and will abate
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testified that he expects price spikes will subside and inflation return to a sustainable level. He cited temporary supply bottlenecks and last spring's pandemic price drop as distortions, and said inflation should fall toward the longer run goal as transitory effects abate.
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Federal Reserve
Jerome Powell
Powell
Fed
St. Louis Fed
James Bullard
New York Federal Reserve Bank
John Williams
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