Quality and Safety

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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">This week's top stories include an alert from federal agencies about </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Russian state-sponsored cyber operations targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, including healthcare organizations, and Massachusetts emergency orders released in response to critical staffing shortages in healthcare. </span></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">This week's top stories include a class action complaint filed following a data breach that affected nearly 320,000 people, and New York's booster requirement that aims to protect the health of a stretched-thin workforce.</span></span></span></p>

<p>This week's top stories include Elizabeth Holmes' conviction on three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud by lying to investors, and jobs numbers that show healthcare is among the top three industries cited in the rise in monthly "quits rate."</p>

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Existing pre-pandemic racial and ethnic disparities in hospital mortality widened during the pandemic, research has found.

The treatment has been cleared for anyone 12 years old and older who is at high risk for severe COVID-19, including hospitalization and death.

Americans will be able to get a free rapid at-home test by request through the federal government.