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Dell pulls in record revenue as work-from-home demand continues
Dell Technologies pulled in record revenue in its most recent fiscal year, as the growing number of people working from their homes increased demand for the company's products. The technology giant had revenue of $94.2 billion for the fiscal year ended Jan. 29. The company beat analyst expectations the fiscal fourth quarter and the full year. Jeff Clarke, Dell Technologies' chief operating officer, said technology played a key role in keeping society moving in the past year. He said Dell has been able to help customers adapt to new remote work and education realities, and said the company is i...
Austin American-Statesman
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New California Law Makes It Easier to Get Care for Mental Health and Substance Abuse
USE OUR CONTENT It can be republished for free. Karen Bailey’s 20-year-old daughter has struggled with depression and anxiety for years. Since 2017, she’s been in three intensive group therapy programs and, each time, the family’s insurer cut her coverage short, says Bailey. “At a certain point, they would send us a form letter saying: We have determined that she is all better, it’s no longer necessary, so we are not covering it anymore,” says Bailey, 59, who lives in Los Angeles. “And believe me, she was not all better. In one case, she was worse.” In making coverage decisions about mental he...
Kaiser Health News
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Learning to Live Again: A Lazarus Tale From the Covid Front Lines
This story also ran on LAist. It can be republished for free. The twinkle in his eyes, the delight in his smile, the joyous way he moved his disease-withered frame. They all proclaimed a single, resounding message: Grateful to be alive! “As my care team and my family tell me, ‘You were born again. You have to learn to live again,’” said Vicente Perez Castro. “I went through a very difficult time.” Hell and back is more like it. Perez, a 57-year-old cook from Long Beach, California, could barely breathe when he was admitted on June 5 to Los Angeles County’s Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He tested...
Kaiser Health News
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Black Churches Fill a Unique Role in Combating Vaccine Fears
This story also ran on The Mercury News. It can be republished for free. In the hospital with covid-19 in December, Lavina Wafer tired of the tubes in her nose and wondered impatiently why she couldn’t be discharged. A phone call with her pastor helped her understand that the tube was piping in lifesaving oxygen, which had to be slowly tapered to protect her. Now that Wafer, 70, is well and back home in Richmond, California, she’s looking to her pastor for advice about the covid vaccines. Though she doubts they’re as wonderful as the government claims, she plans to get vaccinated anyway — beca...
California Healthline
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Covid Vaccine Websites Violate Disability Laws, Create Inequity for the Blind
This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. It can be republished for free. Many covid vaccination registration and information websites at the federal, state and local levels violate disability rights laws, hindering the ability of blind people to sign up for a potentially lifesaving vaccine, a KHN investigation has found. Across the country, people who use special software to make the web accessible have been unable to sign up for the vaccines or obtain vital information about covid-19 because many government websites lack required accessibility features. At least 7.6 million people in the U.S...
Kaiser Health News
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Learning to Live Again: A Lazarus Tale From the Covid Front Lines
This story also ran on LAist. It can be republished for free. The twinkle in his eyes, the delight in his smile, the joyous way he moved his disease-withered frame. They all proclaimed a single, resounding message: Grateful to be alive! “As my care team and my family tell me, ‘You were born again. You have to learn to live again,’” said Vicente Perez Castro. “I went through a very difficult time.” Hell and back is more like it. Perez, a 57-year-old cook from Long Beach, could barely breathe when he was admitted on June 5 to Los Angeles County’s Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He tested positive fo...
California Healthline
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Who’s 'Jeopardy!’s new guest host Mike Richards and what’s next following Alex Trebek’s death
The latest guest host of “Jeopardy!” has a long history with the popular game show. Now that popular contestant Ken Jennings’ six-week fill in stint is over — following the recent death of Alex Trebek — the new interim host is none other than the show’s executive producer Mike Richards. The 45-year-old Burbank, California-native has won three Daytime Emmy Awards and garnered 17 nominations in career that dates back to 20 years ago and a resume of producing game shows such as “The Weakest Link,” “Let’s Make A Deal,” “Wheel of Fortune” and “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” Although the photogenic...
New York Daily News
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Sound Advice: How to get SiriusXM inexpensively
Q. Years ago I purchased a Grace Digital Solo Wi-Fi radio receiver to stream SiriusXM radio to our home stereo system. Now, according to Grace Digital, “The internet radio station finding service used by our legacy internet radios is being discontinued by the 3rd party service provider, Qualcomm Inc. Grace Digital Internet Radios manufactured between 2007 and 2017 will stop working.” So, I’m looking for an inexpensive replacement. Sirius offers a very affordable Home Kit. Unfortunately it relies on a satellite antenna rather than a wireless internet connection, and the antenna will not work ea...
Tribune News Service
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Lessons From California Prison Where Covid ‘Spread Like Wildfire’
When news of the pandemic first reached the men incarcerated at Avenal State Prison in central California, inmate Ed Welker said the prevailing mood was panic. “We were like, ‘Yeah, it’s going to come in here and it’s going to spread like wildfire and we’re all going to get it,’” he said. “And that’s exactly what happened.” Almost a year later, 94% of Avenal’s incarcerated men have contracted covid-19 and eight have died. With more than 3,600 confirmed cases among prisoners and staff members, the facility tops the list of the country’s largest covid clusters in prisons compiled by The New York...
Kaiser Health News
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‘It’s a Minefield’: Biden Health Pick Must Tread Carefully on Abortion and Family Planning
This story also ran on NPR. It can be republished for free. As President Joe Biden works to overhaul U.S. health care policy, few challenges loom larger for his health secretary than restoring access to family planning while parrying legal challenges to abortion proliferating across the country. Physicians, clinics and women’s health advocates are looking to Xavier Becerra, Biden’s nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, to help swiftly unwind Trump-era funding cuts and rules that decimated the nation’s network of reproductive health providers over the past four years. But ...
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