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NEW YORK AP 鈥?Stocks wavered in afternoon trading on Wall Street Friday and headed for weekly losses as investors reviewed mixed news on the economy.READ MORE: Commerce Department inflation gauge shows price increases slowing to 5.5 percentThe SP 500 shook off an early loss and inched up 0.3 percent as of 1:03 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 128 points, or 0.4 percent, to 33,152 and the Nasdaq fell 0.1 percent. The SP 500 and Nasdaq are on track for a third straight week of losses.Markets are heading for a long weekend and will be closed on Monday for the Christmas holiday.The government reported Friday that a key measure of inflation is continuing to slow, though it still far higher than anyone wants to see. The Federal
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NEW YORK AP 鈥?The work is exhausting and dangerous, the situation bleak. But an army of health care workers heeded New
crocs York call for help reinforcing hospitals overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic.So far, at least 82,000 people have volunteered for the state reserve force of medical workers 鈥?a group that includes recent retirees returning to work, health care professionals who can take a break from their regular jobs and people between gigs, according to health officials.Few have made it into the field yet as hospitals and state regulators vet enlistees and decide how to deploy them. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that about to change. By Thursday, hospitals expect to hire about 1,500 volunteers to rescue a medical workforce that needs relief, particularly in New York City.Health care workers who have hit the ground already, many brought in by staffing agencies, discovered a hospital system in danger of being overwhelmed.I have never seen so many human beings in an ER at one time in my entire life, said Liz Schaffer, a nurse from St. Paul, Minnesota, who had
jordan her first shift Tuesday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. Shoulder to shoulder. It is a sight I never thought I would see. Patients are dying every day. Every single day.READ MORE: Hospitals dread the prospect of deciding whom to treat firstSimilar recruiting efforts are underway in other states preparing for waves of patients, including Cal
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