Nursing homes are now permitted to relocate or discharge residents to reduce the risk of COVID-19, even if families or local officials object, according to an order issued Tuesday by Indiana State Health Commissioner Kristina Box.
While the federal government won’t seize stimulus checks being deposited into Americans’ bank accounts this week for owed debts, private debt collectors might, consumer advocates are warning.
Mailing absentee ballot applications to Marion County’s nearly 650,000 registered voters is expected to cost $550,000 for the primary. The council also allocated $550,000 for the fall, in case social distancing is still being encouraged at that time.
While providers such as Spectrum, AT&T, and Comcast have touted free internet offers to bridge technological divides, some families across the country still can’t afford service, which can come with strings attached.
The meat supply chain is especially vulnerable since processing is increasingly done at massive plants that butcher tens of thousands of animals daily, so the closure of even a few big ones can quickly be felt by customers.
The Small Business Administration reported Monday that more than 959,000 applications had been approved for over $232 billion from the Paycheck Protection loan program.
The U.S. Treasury Department and leading airlines continued negotiating Monday over terms of relief payments, with the Treasury sticking to a proposal that could give the government an ownership stake in the nation’s leading carriers.
Luke Bosso, chief of staff for the Indiana Economic Development Corp., said during Monday’s media briefing that the state has purchased 1.9 million pieces of PPE so far.
The one-time payments were approved by Congress as part of an emergency relief package intended to combat the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Monday reported that 44,539 people have been tested so far, up from 42,489 in Sunday’s report.
The decisions are complicated because each nation is on its own coronavirus arc, with some places seeing increasing daily levels of deaths or infections while others are stabilizing.
The auto industry—already fretting lengthy factory shutdowns and depressed new-vehicle demand—is starting to sound the alarm about a potential used-car price collapse that could have far-reaching consequences.
The justices last met in public on March 9. They have since issued opinions on the court’s website.
The Capital Improvement Board of Marion County and Visit Indy said they are implementing several cost-cutting maneuvers ahead of expected drops in tax revenue over the next several months.
More than 70 companies have signed up to sell so-called antibody tests in recent weeks, according to U.S. regulators. The rapid tests typically use a finger-prick of blood on a test strip.
The true toll among the 1 million people who live in nursing homes and long-term care facilities is likely much higher, experts say, because most state counts don’t include those who died without ever being tested for COVID-19.
Stay-at-home and social distancing orders have put restaurant dining on hold, forcing many to close and leaving others barely surviving. Some are looking for new ways to generate revenue.
Shelters report large increases in the number of four-legged fosters since stay-at-home orders took effect—and while humans are advised to practice social distancing, dogs, well, they don’t know what that means.
OPEC, Russia and other oil-producing nations on Sunday finalized an unprecedented production cut in hopes of boosting crashing prices amid the coronavirus pandemic and a price war, officials said.
Some hospitals have reported unusually high death rates for coronavirus patients on ventilators, and some doctors worry that the machines could be harming certain patients.
