This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Zoe Thomas: This is your Tech News Briefing for Tuesday, February 8th. I’m Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal. With so much work moving online during the pandemic, […]
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New home working order another blow for small firms
It’s a Christmas present that tens of thousands of businesses were dreading. From Monday, the government says, people should once again work from home “if you can”, as measures are stepped up to fight the Omicron variant of Covid. The move comes after 20 months of pandemic disruption, just as […]
Native American tribes are receiving COVID-19 vaccines. Now health officials are working to ease fears about taking it.
When the COVID-19 vaccines arrived at her Bay Area Indian Health Center in California’s Santa Clara Valley, Miriam Mosqueda of the Chichimeca Guamare tribe almost didn’t take one. She was afraid. But the 26-year-old staffer thought of her immunocompromised grandparents, whom she hadn’t seen since March. She thought of never […]
Working Out at Home: How to Get Started
Whether your New Year’s resolution is to start exercising or you’ve decided to skip the gym and work out at home to stay safe, it’s actually a great time to start a home fitness program. For one thing, regular physical activity has benefits like boosting mood, improving sleep, […]
All You Busy Working Women, Here is How You Can Take Care of Yourself
A holistic self-care routine benefits your overall physical and mental health whereas a lack thereof can have adverse effects on your well-being in the long run. Working women tend to get so caught up in trying to prove themselves and living up to the unrealistic standards that society has set […]
California once quelled COVID with stay-at-home order. Why this one isn’t working as well
Siblings Ricardo and Kelley Medina wait in line for a free coronavirus test in South Los Angeles. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) California’s first coronavirus lockdown order, in the spring, produced benefits within a month. By April, Gov. Gavin Newsom was able to crow that the state had “arguably […]
Microsoft, Sony & Nintendo Working Together To Make Online Games Safer
Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony have announced that they’re working together to make online gaming safer for everyone in the future. Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony have announced that they’re working together to make online gaming safer for all. The three major console makers are in competition when it comes to sales, but they will […]
Do Fitness Trainers Need Labor Unions to Improve Working Conditions at Gyms?
Design by Eric RosatiGetty Images DESPITE THE LOOMING threat of the ongoing pandemic, Emily Collinson, a NASM-certified trainer and coach for the group-fitness chain Solidcore, was eager to get back to training clients when her studio reopened in Washington, D.C., this past summer. Then she reviewed Solidcore’s proposed health-and-safety precautions. […]
Overnight Health Care: White House coronavirus task force says ‘significant behavior change’ needed of Americans | HHS working with Biden on transition | 6.4 million COVID-19 vaccine doses expected to be shipped to states by mid-December
Welcome to Tuesday’s Overnight Health Care. The White House coronavirus task force says Americans need to significantly change their behavior to reduce COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. States could receive the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines — about 6.4 million doses — by mid-December. Meanwhile, global flu infections have hit […]
Jason Momoa Explains Why He Hates Working Out and Finds Lifting Weights “Challenging”
Believe or not, one of Jason Momoa’s New Year’s resolutions is to exercise more. We’re not kidding — the Hollywood A-lister that’s jibed at on the internet for being more stacked than his bodyguards isn’t currently content with his bill of health. Despite boasting a 50-inch chest and the upper-body […]
North Dakota nurses worry about working with sick colleagues
FILE – In this Oct. 26, 2020, file photo, Dr. Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, left, walks with North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum after holding a roundtable discussion with state and local government and medical leaders on the campus of Bismarck State College, in Bismarck, N.D. With coronavirus […]
Best gifts for working at home in 2020
This story is part of Holiday Gift Guide 2020, CNET’s gift picks with expert advice, reviews and recommendations for the latest tech gifts for you and your family. After working from home went mainstream in the spring, many of our favorite remote-work staples became impossible to buy online. But now […]
Local medical interns share their experience working during the pandemic
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) – Health professionals are on the front lines of the pandemic, and the battle against COVID is giving health professionals of the future invaluable experiences. Garrett Donaldson and Kristin Heslep, both medical resident interns at Gundersen Health System, agreed that one of the hardest things they’ve […]
Coronavirus spread: Employees working in multiple nursing homes can serve as significant drivers
“We do everything for them. Everything you do for yourself, you have to do for the residents,” Tapia said. In March, when the coronavirus began racing through nursing homes, the federal government banned visitors. (That guidance has since been updated.) But even with the ban, infections kept spreading. A team […]
Why the Time Change Is Trickier When Working From Home
After clocks turn back an hour Nov. 1, David K. Welsh, who works from home, plans a few changes. “I will make more of an effort to see daylight in the morning,” says Dr. Welsh, who studies the body’s internal clock as a professor in the Department of Psychiatry & […]
How tech is slowly working to make elections more accessible
The Americans with Disabilities Act has helped make voting more accessible, but there’s still work to be done. Getty Images Two years ago, during the midterm elections, Lucy Greco went online to learn more about what would be on her ballot. Greco, a web accessibility evangelist at the University of […]
Working from home is corroding our mental health — and it’s getting worse
Returning to the office isn’t going to happen anytime soon. COVID-19 cases are on the rise again. And the result is that remote working is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Only 28% of U.S. employees expect to return to their workplaces by the end of 2020, according to […]
Kelly Rowland Wants You To Feel Fabulous While Working from Home
The last few months have been eventful for Kelly Rowland. As a singer, television personality, and one-third of the iconic girl group Destiny’s Child, Rowland is used to tackling multiple projects. Still, this week she’s delighted fans with three big announcements. On the heels of a newly released single, “Crazy,” […]
Working From Home in a Pandemic Is Not Shirking It
TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks That Are Flirting With a Bottom In the investing game, it’s not only about what you buy; it’s about when you buy it. One of the most common pieces of advice thrown around the Street, “buy low” is touted as a tried-and-true tactic.Sure, the strategy […]
Why does Germany make so little room for working moms?
It was about six years ago, after the birth of her second child, that Felicitas Sochor quietly began to worry about being called a Rabenmutter. Ms. Sochor had long dreamed of starting a cafe. But even if she could balance the work commitment that would require with the needs of […]