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The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today . Every day, they fan out across New York — hundreds of thousands of home health aides entering the houses and apartments of the city's most vulnerable, people who are old, infirm, and unable to care for themselves. Practicing social distancing is impossible for them; how can it not be when your job is to change a person's clothes, roll them on their sides, and make sure they are getting bathed and fed? Home health aides across the city, state, and country say they have been left exposed and unprotected as the coronavirus outbreak grows exponentially each day. Many say they have heard little to nothing from the agencies they work for, and have been given none of the basic things needed to try to keep themselves, and their at-risk patients, safe — including glov...

Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) expected to do plenty of dealmaking heading into 2020 and Year 1 of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). Those plans, however, were largely put on pause for the Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based home health, hospice and personal care services company due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While Amedisys remained active on the M&A front, many would-be sellers put off their potential transactions due to "no-strings attached" relief money, Medicare loans and other financial lifelines. As Chairman and CEO Paul Kusserow anticipated, Amedisys is already finding more success in the first half of 2021. Advertisement "We are continuing to look for more significant ways to deploy capital to grow inorganically throughout 2021," Kusserow said at the end of April. "While these are small deals, they increase our presence in strong markets and are geographically strategic. We are active and successful in the M&A market, and...

May 21, 2021 Some people never give their earwax a second thought. Others feel that they have too much of it or that it's unsightly, so they want to remove it. But it's best to leave your earwax alone, unless you're having health problems associated with the sticky substance. Why do we have earwax to begin with? Our ears naturally produce earwax for good reason: It works with the tiny hairs lining your ear canals to keep dust, bacteria and other undesirable particles from reaching your eardrums or inner ears. Earwax also helps keep your ears properly lubricated, so they don't feel itchy and dry inside. Ears are self-cleaning, which means that earwax gradually falls out in tiny flakes, then is replaced by new earwax. Taking steps to remove earwax is unnecessary and may even cause buildup, if you do it the wrong way. "So the most common step that people take to try to remove earwax – inserting cotton swabs into the ear canal – actually has the reverse eff...

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