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A "closed" sign stands at an entrance to Cowles Mountain in San Diego, March 23., 2020.

City Beaches From San Diego To Carlsbad Closed As COVID-19 Cases Keep Climbing

All city beaches from San Diego to Carlsbad will remain closed Tuesday as San Diego County officials urge residents to practice social distancing to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

Headaches, lung issues and ongoing, debilitating fatigue are just a few of the symptoms plaguing some "long hauler" COVID-19 patients for months or more after the initial fever and acute symptoms recede.

Hey, COVID-19 Long-Haulers: Take Care In Shopping For Health Insurance

Anyone with lingering effects of COVID-19 should be extra careful in picking a 2021 health plan, specialists say. You now have a "pre-existing condition" that could increase medical expenses in 2021.

From center: Arek (Tomasz Studzinski), Sam (Marek Wrobelewski), Chaim (Kacper Swietek), Ike (Kuba Sprenger), Ben (Pascal Fischer) in a scene from "The Windermere Children."

The Windermere Children

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Carol Day, a lay volunteer at Centenary Methodist Church in Shady Side, Md., invites passers by to stop for a blessing.

'We Can't Anoint The Sick': Faith Leaders Seek New Approaches To Pastoral Care

Many churches have moved worship services online, but there are some problems technology can't solve. Pastoral associate Kathie Amidei says she must find new ways "to be a conduit of God's love."

With access to medical care limited during the pandemic, patients in countries where abortion is legal, such as Colombia, the United Kingdom and the United States, are turning to telemedicine for a prescription for drugs like mifeprostone and misoprostol to end a pregnancy.

Lockdown Limits Access To Legal Abortion in Colombia. Telemedicine Is Now An Option

The pandemic has caused some abortion providers to close and made it more difficult for citizens to go out. Clinics are looking for alternatives.

A January report found that 40% of U.S. counties don't have a single health care provider approved to prescribe buprenorphine, a medicine integral to helping many patients beat opioid addiction. Permitting more-distant doctors to evaluate patients online and prescribe the medicine is a welcome advance, say addiction specialists.

Coronavirus Crisis Spurs Access To Online Treatment For Opioid Addiction

The federal government has waived a law that required an in-person doctor's visit before patients could be prescribed drugs that quell withdrawal symptoms. That's a boon for patients, counselors say.

The clock is ticking for tens of thousands of pilots, flight attendants, reservation agents and other airline employees, who will likely lose their jobs on Oct. 1 if Congress doesn't extend federal aid for the airlines.

Thousands Of Airline Workers Facing Unemployment As Aid Package Stalls In Congress

The clock is ticking for tens of thousands of pilots, flight attendants, mechanics and other airline employees who will likely lose their jobs if Congress doesn't extend airline aid by Oct. 1.

Surfers and swimmers in the waters in Ocean Beach on Monday, April 27, 2020, the first day beaches reopened in San Diego with restrictions following closures because of the coronavirus lockdown.

San Diego City Leaders Tout Encouraging First Day Of Beach Reopenings

"For the most part, everybody followed the rules," San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit said.

This Bornean horseshoe bat and other bat species can harbor coronaviruses. The nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance had U.S. government funding for an ongoing research project in China on bats and coronaviruses — until the money was cut on April 24.

77 Nobel Laureates Denounce Trump Officials For Pulling Coronavirus Research Grant

In a letter sent to Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, these U.S. scientists said they were "gravely concerned" about the abrupt termination of a federal grant to EcoHealth Alliance.

Federal officers walk through tear gas while dispersing a crowd during a July 21 protest in Portland, Ore. A temporary restraining order on Thursday blocked federal agents from knowingly targeting journalists and legal observers.

Order Temporarily Blocks Feds From Targeting Press And Legal Observers In Portland

The judge's order also blocks the defendants from seizing any cameras, audio and video equipment and press passes, as well as from ordering journalists to stop recording or observing a protest.

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