Stay home or work sick? Omicron poses a conundrum
As the raging omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of those whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and
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Mayo Clinic will fire 730 employees for defying vaccination mandate
While the final numbers are still being tallied, Mayo Clinic reported Tuesday that “nearly 99%” of its 73,000 employees are now vaccinated against COVID-19 or have received an exemption for
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These 3 California cities have the hottest real estate in the U.S., this ranking says
Survey says” looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of art and data. Buzz: California claimed the top three
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Man who kept diner open in defiance of state order dies of COVID-19
A man who defied state orders and kept his restaurant open last year during the pandemic, partly to pay medical bills, has died of complications from COVID-19. John Parney, 62,
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Cargo continues flooding into Port of LA with 2022 looking to be a repeat performance
As 2021 comes to a close, efforts are underway on multiple fronts to ease the supply chain issues that saw massive ship backups at the ports of Los Angeles and
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The number of immigrant workers with H1-B visas drops the most in a decade
The number of immigrants under the H1-B visa program holding high-tech jobs dropped the most in at least a decade this year in the U.S. amid travel and visa restrictions,
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3 Google workers sue over firings stemming from Trump administration border project
Three former Google employees sued the technology giant claiming they were wrongfully fired for challenging a plan to collaborate with the Trump administration’s border security agencies. They claim that in
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Netflix Games is available on your iPhone and iPad
Netflix just brought its new gaming service to all subscribers on Android, but now it has officially come to iOS. The service gives users access to a limited selection of mobile
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The cost of vaccinating children against COVID-19 are greater than the “benefits”
In our Toxicology Reports (TR) paper on COVID-19 that examined myriad issues associated with the ongoing mass inoculations (hereafter called the TR paper), we also evaluated the ratio of costs to benefits
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Data used to build algorithms detecting skin disease is too white
Public skin image datasets that are used to train algorithms to detect skin problems don’t include enough information about skin tone, according to a new analysis. And within the datasets where
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