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Millions of Americans across the country are preparing for federal student loan repayments to start again this fall after nearly a three-year hiatus because of COVID-19. But that additional financial burden is
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EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. 鈥?Despite another record day of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis emphatically declared on Tuesday that hospital admissions have slowed and that the state would not be shutting down. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says 11,515 people were
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stanley us patients.While DeSantis admitted that emergency room visits for COVID-like illness CLI went up sharply in July, he seemed to dismiss the record spike in hospitalizations, instead claiming they re now plateauing. We are watching the CLI. That is plateauing. The hospital admissions have slowed. I don t think we ve reached the peak yet. But I think we re going to settle in hopefully this week or next week, DeSantis s