From isolation to anxiety, health experts at Lee Health say since the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ve seen an increase in patients needing mental health care. “We have seen patients who before never had difficulties with mental health start to have difficulties. We have seen people who had mental health and this has made it worse,” said Dr. Jacqueline Hidalgo, a clinical psychologist with Lee Health. Dr. Hidalgo has worked with patients on feelings of anxiety, depression, isolation, fear, loss, and substance abuse. “Missing family members, missing seeing friends, missing their coworkers. We...
Rebekah Jones was fired in May 2020 for what she said was refusing to doctor state’s COVID numbers. Officials said she was fired for insubordination
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NEW YORK, N.Y. / CNBC — AMC Entertainment shares surged again on Tuesday when the theater chain sold more than 8 million shares to an investment firm, the latest in a series of capital raises for the struggling company turned ‘meme’ stock. The purchase by Mudrick Capital Management helped AMC raise $230.5 million. AMC officials said that they would be using the funds for potential acquisitions, updates to existing theaters, and deleveraging its balance sheet. Shares were up 17% in premarket trading. AMC was hit hard during the pandemic when their movie theaters shut in most...
WASHINGTON / CNBC — Moderna officials asked the Food and Drug Administration to fully approve it’s coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, making it the second drugmaker in the U.S. to do so. If approved, Moderna would be able to market their vaccine directly to consumers. The mRNA vaccine is currently on the U.S. market under an emergency use authorization, which was granted by the FDA in December. It gives conditional approval based on two months of safety data. It’s not the same as a biologics license application, or a request for full approval, which requires at least six months of...
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Gas prices in Florida on Memorial Day averages $2.86 per gallon. Although the state average was higher than the last two years, it was 5 cents less than what drivers paid in Florida during the 2018 holiday weekend. Gas prices in the Sunshine State have been on the decline over the last two weeks, dropping nearly 3 cents. The state average is now 7 cents more than a month ago and nearly a dollar per gallon more than this time last year. “Gas prices are relatively stagnant as we enter the start of the busy summer driving season,” Mark Jenkins, a spokesman...
CNN – A former pilot for Southwest Airlines was sentenced to one year of probation last week after pleading guilty to a lewd, indecent, or obscene act during a flight he was piloting last summer, according to a news release from the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland. Michael Haak, 60, admitted that when he was flying from Philadelphia to Orlando on August 10, 2020 and reached cruising altitude, he got out of the pilot’s seat, undressed and “viewed pornographic media on a laptop computer,” while still in the cockpit. Haak also “engaged in inappropriate...
CNN – The Curiosity rover spied colorful shining clouds on Mars as it trekked the planet’s terrain. While color usually presents itself in shades of red in the frozen desert, the skies above the rover appeared to almost sparkle. Unlike Earth, Mars doesn’t have many overcast, cloudy days. The red planet has a thin, dry atmosphere, so clouds tend to appear in the skies over the Martian equator when the planet is cold and farthest from the sun in its oval-shaped orbit every two Earth years, CNN reported. One Martian year ago [two Earth years], Curiosity spotted clouds that...
CNN – Meat producer JBS USA was underwent a cyber attack on Sunday, according to officials. The attack affected servers supporting its IT systems in North America and Australia, the company said in a news release. “The company is not aware of any evidence at this time that any customer, supplier or employee data has been compromised or misused as a result of the situation,” JBS said. “Resolution of the incident will take time, which may delay certain transactions with customers and suppliers.” The company said it is unaware of who carried out the attack. JBS is...