The three-day strike carried out in multiple states will officially end Saturday at 6 a.m., and workers were expected to return to their jobs in Kaiser's hospitals and clinics that serve nearly 13 million Americans. The two sides did not have any bargaining sessions scheduled after concluding their talks midday Wednesday
The attacks were first widely reported last year, but the compromise of sensitive health records only came to light in recent days. Last year, Los Angeles School Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said the Russian ransomware gang Vice Society had claimed responsibility for the hack and placed the material online in October.
Nearly 29,000 child COVID-19 cases were reported in the week ending February 16. Over the past five months, weekly reported child cases have plateaued at an average of about 33,000 cases, according to the report.
Nearly 4,000 people were hospitalised due to flu in the US in the latest week ending January 21, CDC data showed. Six influenza-associated pediatric deaths were reported this week, Xinhua news agency reported.
California had the most confirmed cases among US states so far, with 4,656 cases, followed by New York with 3,755 and Florida with 2,398, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the CDC data.
It is the second known death of a person diagnosed with the disease in the United States. Texas last month reported the first death of a severely immunocompromised person who was diagnosed with monkeypox.
For the week ending September 1, about 90,600 child Covid-19 cases were reported, an increase of 14 per cent from two weeks prior.
The Los Angeles County became the first in the US to surpass 1 million Covid-19 case since the onset of the pandemic early last year, local health officials said.
The United States has been facing a spectacular surge in cases in recent months. Since the end of November, the number of daily deaths has increased dramatically, regularly exceeding 2,000 and often 3,000 deaths per day.
According to an analysis by scientists from University of California (UC)Berkeley in the US, the controversial genetic mutation that a Chinese scientist attempted to create in twin babies born last year is associated with a 21 per cent increase in mortality in later life.
The study, published in the journal Diabetes Care, showed that patients on medication for type 2 diabetes may be keeping Alzheimer's disease away.
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