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As the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, trauma centers faced unprecedented obstacles to providing care for injured patients. A look at steps taken by trauma centers in response to COVID-19 is provided by a survey in the January/February Journal for Healthcare Quality (JHQ), the peer-reviewed journal of the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

The UAW got a Christmas gift of sorts from the federal government. The troubled union faced a complete federal takeover; instead it negotiated an agreement to have an independent monitor review the organization’s finances and activities. The UAW also agreed to allow members to decide on the procedures for electing future leaders.

Too many Americans can’t afford the costs of basic legal representation. These are hard-working people and small-business owners whose income disqualifies them from help like Legal Aid or a public defender.

I was appalled that at the same time President Trump was floating the idea of declaring martial law and using the military to “rerun” the 2020 election, The Blade, seeing a more pressing issue, ran an editorial critique of President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet choices.

The Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday put an end to Clark County’s arrogant and egregious effort to ignore the state’s open record statutes.

Hospitals brace for another COVID-19 surge after holiday travel.

We’re all players on somebody else’s stage, being stereotyped by other people’s prejudices.

As history has proven conclusively, once you put the government between you and your natural and constitutional rights, bureaucrats and politicians will regulate away those rights to the point of tyranny.

Perhaps if more people understood what’s hidden in the stimulus bill, they would not be so quick to condemn President Donald Trump’s delay in signing it.

Alternative universe: Donald Trump is president. The Democratic leadership decides to work with the president to make America great.

Today’s health care professionals and politicians are exactly like the British and French generals of World War I. They have one tactic and can imagine no other.

Seniors need higher priority. Gov. Steve Sisolak should rethink the Tier 3 position he has placed them in.

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Faced with death tolls unseen in Europe since World War II, the Network of Action Committees for Safe Education in Germany convened an emergency meeting on Tuesday to advance the fight for school closures and discuss prospects for a general strike against the politics of mass infection with the coronavirus.

Without extreme levels of social inequality, it would not be necessary to rely on the largesse of the billionaires to “donate” the funds necessary to meet critical social needs.

The Biden administration will continue to force workers into unsafe factories and workplaces and double down on Trump’s efforts to reopen the schools, so as to free working class parents to resume pumping out profits for the corporations.

Nearly two years after the 737 Max was grounded, not a single corporate executive or federal regulator has gone to jail for his role in the deaths of 346 people.

The state is now the epicenter of the pandemic in the US, with zero percent ICU capacity at many of its regions’ hospitals.

Compounding the health crisis, millions of North Carolinians are out of work and cannot afford basic necessities, while the wealth of North Carolina’s billionaires has soared to new heights.

Hospitals are being overwhelmed with a number having to declare emergencies. Moreover, the surge in infections threatens to overwhelm a vaccine rollout taking place at a snail’s pace.

Morgan’s attempt to portray the monarchy’s inner life in human terms successfully captures something of its corrosive impact on all concerned. He shows portions of the ugly reality.

Detroit schools are presently set to reopen for face-to-face instruction in the coming weeks, threatening countless lives as the pandemic continues to deepen in the region.

With no central heating and no smoke detectors, a Detroit family suffered an unspeakable disaster on the holiday.

A recent study exposes the inadequacy of the testing system the Macron government introduced after the first lock-down, leading to thousands of preventable deaths.