US healthcare companies are sinking into debt distress as they struggle to contend with rising interest rates and labour costs after the sector borrowed heavily to fund a dealmaking boom. A fifth of America’s distressed bonds were issued by healthcare companies — spanning services, facilities, managed care and pharmaceuticals — […]
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Louisiana nursing homes, families say they are more prepared as coronavirus cases rise again | Coronavirus
Last spring, the novel coronavirus had Michelle Bourque worried. Not just because she feared catching it, although that was a big concern, but more because her 81-year-old mother was in Chateau de Notre Dame, a New Orleans-nursing home with one of the earliest confirmed clusters of the virus. Locked out […]
Cases of Covid-19 in children on rise in the US, with highest 1-week spike yet
Soaring case counts around the country are impacting children at “unprecedented levels,” according to new numbers released Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, which are tracking data reported by state health departments. © Cengiz Yar/Getty Images An attendant talks to a person waiting in […]