More than 150 employees at a Houston hospital system who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine have been fired or resigned after a judge dismissed an employee lawsuit over the vaccine requirement. A spokesperson for Houston Methodist hospital system said 153 employees either resigned in the two-week suspension period or were terminated on Tuesday. The…
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Sohail Prasad and Samvit Ramadurgam are cofounders who met during Y Combinator’s 2012 summer batch and went on to cofound Forge, which helps accredited investors and institutions buy and sell private company shares and which most recently raised $150 million in new funding in May. Forge — originally known as Equidate — has taken off…
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Anthony Fauci said the Delta variant of Covid-19 now represents about one in five new infections in the US, describing the new strain as the “greatest threat” to the country’s efforts to quash the pandemic. Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, said during a press conference on Tuesday that the new strain, which…
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CMS plans to distribute $20 million in grants to state-based marketplaces that will finance technology upgrades to improve performance and the consumer experience. The grants, part of the American Rescue Plan Act, are meant to assist SBMs in complying with federal marketplace requirements and in providing quicker insurance enrollment and eligibility determinations. For states with…
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Cancer patients have largely been excluded from COVID-19 vaccine trials, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology is asking drug manufacturers to change that in an effort to deduce whether the safety and effectiveness extends to these often-immunocompromised patients. The request, issued in a joint policy statement with the Friends of Cancer Research, also asked…
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Scripps Health is being sued for its alleged “failure to properly secure and safeguard” patients’ personally identifiable information during an April 29 malware attack on the San Diego-based health system, according to documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. To contain the attack, the San Diego-based system took a…
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GM has launched a series of new subsidiaries in the past year tackling electrification, connectivity and even insurance — all part of the automaker’s aim to find value (and profits) beyond its traditional business of making, selling and financing vehicles. These startups, including numerous ones that will never make the cut, get their start under…
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Electronics groups including Japan’s Canon and Innolux, an affiliate of Apple supplier Foxconn, have been accused of locking up migrant workers in Taiwan as an outbreak of Covid-19 hits the country’s tech industry. The accusations highlight the labour practices used to sustain Taiwan’s position as a technology manufacturing powerhouse. The country is a linchpin of…
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The writer, HRH the Prince of Wales, is president and founder of the Prince’s Trust The effects of this pandemic have been wide-ranging and long lasting. Young people, though less directly affected by the medical emergency of the pandemic, have been disproportionately impacted by the financial fallout. It has been reported that during the height…
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This article is an on-site version of our #techFT newsletter. Sign up here to get the complete newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Amazon has been hurling offers at me for everything from food mixers to Fire TV sticks in the final hours of its annual Prime Day sale, but there are some…
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