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| The Brief for May 29 |  | In today's Brief: Sports fans can soon attend games, infections at prisons soar as a lawsuit asking for more protections navigates the courts, and the U.S. House approved a bill meant to ease restrictions on a small-business loan program.
Elvia Lim, Texas Tribune 05/29/2020    | | Read Article: Texas Tribune |
| Texas AG Reaches Deal With 254 Counties Ahead of Global Opioid Settlement | | The Texas Attorney General announced a deal Thursday that would help distribute up to $1.5 billion to the state and its cities and counties from a potential nationwide opioid settlement. The May 13 agreement, which also involved six law firms representing Texas and its cities and counties in their separate opioid lawsuits, attempts to resolve some of the key sticking points in bringing a myriad assortment of governments into the negotiations over a nationwide opioid settlement, estimated to be at least $19.2 billion.
Amanda Bronstad , Law.com 05/29/2020 | | Read Article: Law.com |
| Outbreaks at US Produce Farms | | All of the roughly 200 employees on a produce farm in Tennessee tested positive for covid-19 this month. In New Jersey, more than 50 workers had the virus at a farm in Gloucester County, adding to nearly 60 who fell ill in neighboring Salem County. Almost 170 were reported to get the disease at a tomato and strawberry greenhouse complex in Oneida, New York. The outbreaks underscore the latest coronavirus threat to America's food supply: Farm workers are getting sick and spreading the illness just as the U.S. heads into the peak of the summer produce season. In all likelihood, the cases will keep climbing as more than half a million seasonal employees crowd onto buses to move among farms across the country and get housed together in cramped bunkhouse-style dormitories.
Mike Dorning and Jen Skerritt, Bloomberg, Houston Chronicle 05/29/2020 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Families Say Assisted Living Residents Are Falling Through the Cracks | | Assisted living facilities, home to about 800,000 older Americans, have been largely overlooked in coronavirus-relief efforts, leaving many facilities underregulated, understaffed and underfunded. As a result, families and caregivers say, their residents are falling through the cracks.
JAMIE DUCHARME, TIME , Yahoo News 05/29/2020 | | Read Article: Yahoo News |
| Nursing Homes Fought Federal Emergency Plan Requirements for Years | | The long-term care industry resisted a federal mandate to plan for disasters including pandemics. About 43% of nursing homes have been caught violating the requirement, including facilities that have now had deadly COVID-19 outbreaks.
Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth, Carli Brosseau, The News & Observer and Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica, ProPublica 05/29/2020 | | Read Article: ProPublica |
| CDC Recommends Big Changes to American Offices | | Sweeping new recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been released on the safest way for American employers reopening their offices to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. If followed, the guidelines would lead to a far-reaching remaking of the corporate work experience.
Matt Richtel, The New York Times 05/29/2020 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
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