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The <keyword id="19895346" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Calcutta-High-Court" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Calcutta High Court" meta.hostid="153" meta.entityid="Calcutta High Court">Calcutta High Court</keyword> on Thursday directed the <keyword id="19896633" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="CBI" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="CBI" meta.hostid="153" meta.entityid="CBI">CBI</keyword> to file a report by September 18 on detestable posts being made on social media regarding the <keyword id="22813393" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="rape-murder-victim" source="keywords">rape-murder victim</keyword> of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. The body of the on-duty trainee doctor was found in the seminar room of the state-run hospital on August 9, triggering nationwide outrage. The CBI is investigating the case from the second week of August on an order of the high court. The petitioner prayed in the PIL that the CBI be directed to investigate the <keyword id="22008077" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="cyber-offences" source="keywords">cyber offences</keyword> in connection with the "unfortunate and brutal incident." The court asked the Additional Solicitor General Asok Kumar Chakrabarti, representing the central agency, whether it could find a way to block these types of posts. The division bench, presided by Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam, directed the joint director, CBI, Kolkata, to look into the grievance expressed by the petitioner with regard to the issue of such abominable <keyword id="20074678" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="social-media-posts" source="keywords">social media posts</keyword>. The bench, also comprising Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, directed the CBI joint director or any other competent officer to file a report in this regard by September 18, when the PIL will come up for hearing again along with other petitions relating to the August 9 rape-murder of the doctor. After the order was dictated, Chakrabarti submitted before the court that the CBI does not have any separate wing to investigate such cyber crimes. Maintaining that the state police has a special unit to monitor such matters, he prayed that the <keyword id="20054502" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="West-Bengal-government" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="West Bengal government" meta.hostid="153" meta.entityid="West Bengal government">West Bengal government</keyword>'s cyber crime branch be also directed to file a separate report. The court said that it would consider the prayer on the next date of hearing.

Calcutta High Court seeks CBI report on nasty social media posts on RG Kar hospital rape-murder victim

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Elon Musk has proposed a crowd-sourced leaderboard to crack down on government wastefulness.</li><li>It taps into our natural drive for competition and play, psychologists say.</li></ul>It was perhaps inevitable that Elon Musk — a tech titan and a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-video-games-grand-theft-auto-elden-ring-2023-12">prolific gamer</a> — would try to turn <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-leaderboard-government-spending-marketing-genius-doge-donald-trump-2024-11">government spending</a> into a game.As soon as Musk became co-leader of a newly-minted <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-doge-leaderboard-federal-government-spending-trump-2024-11">Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE for short)</a>, he proposed a crowd-sourced leaderboard for the dumbest uses of tax dollars. It's a natural move for Musk, who came up in the tech world in the early 2000s, as "gamification" took hold. The concept — using gaming features like points and leaderboards to optimize real-world scenarios — was <a target="_blank" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vDxTBgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA31#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">first described</a> by software engineers in 2008. The gamification movement in business and tech was born from the central idea that "reality is broken," as futurist Jane McGonigal <a target="_blank" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Reality_Is_Broken/yiOtN_kDJZgC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;pg=PT11&amp;printsec=frontcover">wrote</a> in her 2011 bestseller. "Game developers know better than anyone else how to inspire extreme effort and reward hard work," McGonigal wrote.Fundamentally, these features — real-time updates and comparisons — tap into our natural appetite for control, Adrian Hon, cofounder of the gaming studio Six to Start and author of "You've Been Played" on the dark side of gamification, told Business Insider."Most common forms of gamification are based around ideas of reward and punishment. That's basically behaviorism that's 100 years old," Hon said. "It's very easy to do. It's very easy to understand."These days, gaming features are baked into the fabric of much of modern life, particularly social. Millions of people "like" opinions on X, down-vote news on Reddit, and earn badges on DuoLingo. We chase steps, close rings, and compete with strangers to spin the fastest.The question is how to add context to make complex goals understandable, exciting, and achievable.Urging someone with a sprained ankle to hit <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/walking-10000-steps-for-health-not-science-based-in-marketing-2021-7">10,000 steps a day</a> regardless could do more harm than good. In government, pointing to a simple metric that captures "efficiency" is a tall order — on paper, slashing budgets could look good but bring unintended consequences, according to Richard Landers, a psychology professor at University of Minnesota who specializes in gamification."The number one most efficient way to have a firefighting department in a small town is don't have one, because then they never fail," he said. "That's that kind of logic that you end up having if you're not really cautious about how it's designed."<h2 id="7b471489-75c6-444a-b6f2-8827e89f261e">Why comparing scores is hardwired into our psychology</h2>A game undeniably makes tasks more digestible — something Musk has been talking about for years. He <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz3A6AtX27c">argued</a> at SXSW in 2014 that education should be "as close to a video game as possible." "You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling and far easier to do," Musk told the audience.Throw in other players, and you've got a race.Humans have a natural competitive streak. Going head-to-head with a rival can help boost our focus, enhance our attention, and motivate us to stick to a task, <a target="_blank" href="https://academic.oup.com/book/45435/chapter-abstract/389436570?redirectedFrom=fulltext">research</a> suggests, but it can also backfire if the pressure gets too intense.A leaderboard works psychologically by incentivizing behavior with a reward like public recognition, maybe a prize, or a sense of accomplishment at winning a competition.It's often used for behaviors people already want to do, but need an extra nudge, according to Landers. Think taking a spin class when you're tempted to watch Netflix, or walking more so you can get the highest step count in the group chat."Good gamification is hypothetically the same way, so that when you achieve well on the Nike app, you're like, 'yeah, I really did do something for myself this week. That was great,'" he said."There's no question that it motivates people," said Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, professor of history at the New School and author of "Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession.""You're in the gym running next to someone on the treadmill, you see them speed up, and you want to speed up. Take that experience and multiply it by however many people you're ranking."<h2 id="ac2e7636-bdbf-425b-8204-07cd0abd6bbe">Politicians love leaderboards</h2>Leaderboards zero in on a specific, measurable goal, like your step count for fitness.That's not so straightforward in politics, but it's incredibly alluring. "Politicians like them because it makes them feel like they have more knowledge and real-time knowledge than they might get otherwise," Hon said, referring to rankings of programs like schools, hospitals, and fire departments.Take healthcare. Increasing productivity in an emergency department is complicated — more complicated than any hospital ranking can communicate. In the real world, that sometimes translates to doctors turning down tricky cases in favor of easy ones to pump up their success metrics, according to Landers.This is one of the biggest unanswered questions facing gamification — can boiling down complex issues into crunchable numbers miss the point?Landers said leaderboard systems generally require one precise, agreed-upon goal in order to work. If a metric is oversimplified, it can risk losing sight of the original goal as participants start to value the game for its own sake."Empowering individuals to call out true waste is not inherently a bad idea," Landers said. "The challenge would be in defining that. How do you know when something is legitimately wasteful?"For the government, that might hinge on what counts as waste and whether Musk's leaderboard can get people to agree."You can't just call it waste because you're like, wow, I don't think Jill over there is a good use of money. You should fire her. It's not a productive approach. Trying to figure out how to create a system like that would be incredibly complicated," Landers said. "They would have to do that investment in really understanding the problems deeply and then creating a system to reward what actually should be rewarded."<h2 id="7d6f8bf4-31df-4ff6-8c83-b288ff90ae8b">Gaming the system can backfire</h2>At the height of Peloton's popularity, the home fitness brand's competitive leaderboard quickly became overrun by people <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/peloton-bike-tablets-rooted-watch-netflix-spotify-hacked-cheat-leaderboards-2019-9">hacking their Pelotons</a> to artificially boost their scores.As a result, some users felt less motivated instead of more."The demotivating power of being low on a leaderboard is well understood," Landers said. "If you're like 500,000th, nobody cares. You're like, why even try?"Petrzela said that even if people play by the rules, overgamifying might mean missing out on valuable but hard-to-quantify things."If your only goal in Peloton is to be at the top of the leaderboard, you completely sacrifice a lot of the things that might slow you down but make your ride injury-free or something you really enjoy," she said. "Musk's proposed leaderboard is a much higher stakes version of that."In terms of government services, a goal like reducing wait times for doctors' visits might translate well to a leaderboard, since they're easy to compare. But more complicated variables — like whether a cancer program can treat a patient's specific diagnosis — might fall through the cracks, particularly when people without healthcare expertise are doing the ranking without the full context.To create a leaderboard that can make meaningful change, it's crucial to understand what context matters. Otherwise, Hon said gamification might have short-term benefits but backfire in the long term as important, less-tangible factors are crowded out by overemphasizing one metric.Case in point: Hon said he's currently hooked on a popular puzzle game. The online leaderboard keeps him logging in long after the game itself stopped bringing much joy to his routine."It's just like, what's the point of this really? Am I just playing this game to maintain my position? Do I even really enjoy it anymore?" he said. "I probably would play it less if actually that leaderboard didn't exist. So that is really for the benefit of the site. It's not for the benefit of me."

Elon Musk's 'gamification' of government spending taps into our natural competitive instinct

<keyword id="19909056" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Mamata-Banerjee" source="keywords">Mamata Banerjee</keyword>, the <keyword id="19924917" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chief-Minister" source="keywords">Chief Minister</keyword> of <keyword id="19896517" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="West-Bengal" source="keywords">West Bengal</keyword> and leader of the <keyword id="19968095" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Trinamool-Congress" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Trinamool Congress" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Trinamool Congress">Trinamool Congress</keyword> (TMC), has been a dominant force in the state's politics for over a decade. Recently, she offered to resign amidst the ongoing <keyword id="23154517" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="R-G-Kar-Hospital-protests" source="keywords">R.G. Kar Hospital protests</keyword>, where junior doctors have been on strike demanding justice for a murdered colleague. While Banerjee’s offer to step down seems more symbolic, aimed at quelling tensions, it raises important questions about what would happen if she were to actually resign as Chief Minister. Here’s a detailed breakdown of the process and its implications for West Bengal: <h3 style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;">1. Resignation</h3>If Mamata Banerjee were to formally submit her resignation, the process would begin with her presenting a written resignation letter to the <keyword id="23154515" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Governor-of-West-Bengal" source="keywords">Governor of West Bengal</keyword>. This is the standard protocol for any Chief Minister in India. The resignation is at the discretion of the Governor, who typically accepts it unless there is a compelling reason not to. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="113307547" title="West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee offers to resign after agitating doctors refuse to meet without live streaming" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div>Once the resignation is accepted, Banerjee would cease to be the CM immediately. However, the Governor might request her to continue as a caretaker CM until a new government is formed. In this role, Banerjee would oversee a temporary government with limited powers, unable to make significant policy decisions or pass new laws. <h3 style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;">2. Election of a new leader</h3>Mamata Banerjee’s resignation would leave a significant leadership vacuum within the Trinamool Congress, which currently has a strong majority in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. Given her deep-rooted influence over the party, it’s likely that the TMC would convene an emergency meeting to elect a new leader. Banerjee’s close associates, such as her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, could be contenders for the CM post. Alternatively, the party could look for a senior and experienced leader to stabilise the situation until the next elections. However, given Banerjee’s control over the party, she may still wield significant influence from behind the scenes, even if she officially steps down. <h3 style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;">3. Role of the Governor</h3>In the absence of a clear successor, the Governor plays a key role. The Governor might invite the TMC to form the government again by electing a new leader, but if the party fails to show a majority or experiences factionalism, the Governor could explore other options. This could include inviting the opposition to form the government if they demonstrate the numbers, or even recommending <keyword id="23154516" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Presidents-Rule" source="keywords">President’s Rule</keyword> in the state under Article 356 of the Indian Constitution, where the central government takes over the state's administration. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="112644728" title="Bengal in state of flux, people lost faith in present government: Governor CV Ananda Bose" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div><h3>4. <keyword id="20554823" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vote-of-confidence" source="keywords">Vote of confidence</keyword></h3>Once a new leader is chosen by the TMC, they will be sworn in as the next Chief Minister. However, they would need to prove their majority on the floor of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. This process, known as a vote of confidence, is crucial in determining whether the new CM has the support of the majority of the legislators. If the party remains united, this step should be straightforward. However, in the event of internal splits within the TMC or if Banerjee’s resignation triggers political instability, the new leader may struggle to secure the necessary support, potentially leading to fresh elections. <h3 style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;">5. Impact on West Bengal’s <keyword id="20142886" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="political-landscape" source="keywords">political landscape</keyword></h3>Mamata Banerjee’s resignation would have a profound impact on the political landscape of West Bengal. She has been the face of the TMC and has led the party to consecutive electoral victories, defeating formidable opponents like the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Her departure from the top post could trigger a realignment within the state’s political sphere. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="113087561" title="Calcutta High Court seeks CBI report on nasty social media posts on RG Kar hospital rape-murder victim" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div>If Banerjee were to leave active politics, it could embolden opposition parties like the BJP, which has been trying to expand its footprint in the state. Additionally, there could be a power struggle within the TMC itself, especially if no clear successor emerges. <h3 style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;">6. President’s Rule as a last resort</h3>In an extreme scenario, where the TMC fails to elect a new leader or where political instability leads to a breakdown of governance, the Governor could recommend President’s Rule. Under this provision, the state government is suspended, and the central government takes direct control of the state’s administration. President’s Rule is generally viewed as a last resort and can be imposed if no party can form a stable government. However, given the TMC’s strong majority in the assembly, this is an unlikely scenario unless there is significant internal fragmentation within the party. In short, if Mamata Banerjee resigns, West Bengal’s political future would hinge on how swiftly a new leader is appointed by her party and how successfully they can prove majority support in the assembly. Should this process falter, the state could face either interim governance under a caretaker government or even the possibility of President’s Rule, depending on the stability of the assembly.

What will happen if Mamata Banerjee actually resigns as the Chief Minister of West Bengal?

<keyword id="19959243" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Delhi-Health-Minister" source="keywords">Delhi Health Minister</keyword> <keyword id="19972125" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Saurabh-Bhardwaj" source="keywords">Saurabh Bhardwaj</keyword> alleged on Sunday at a press conference that Delhi <keyword id="19943297" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Lieutenant-Governor" source="keywords">Lieutenant Governor</keyword> (LG) Vinai Kumar Saxena's office is spreading falsehoods and ignoring the acute shortage of <keyword id="21896384" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="medical-personnel" source="keywords">medical personnel</keyword> in Delhi government hospitals. Health Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj stated that nature seems to repeatedly create opportunities to expose Delhi's <keyword id="21554677" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="LG-Vinai-Saxena" source="keywords">LG Vinai Saxena</keyword>, who is ruling Delhi, and reveal his truth to the whole country. The Delhi Health Minister continued, "The LG continuously hides behind his office and indirectly spreads lies to the public and the media. One such lie was again presented to the media yesterday from the LG's office. I request the LG to stop hiding behind his office and indirectly presenting lies to the public. Instead, he should hold a press conference and write these lies himself to present them to the media and the people of the country so that action can be taken against him for his falsehoods." He mentioned that the poorest of the poor from Delhi and surrounding states come to <keyword id="20456169" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-hospitals" source="keywords">Delhi hospitals</keyword> with the hope of receiving adequate treatment. However, due to the significant <keyword id="22439640" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="shortage-of-doctors" source="keywords">shortage of doctors</keyword>, nurses, <keyword id="22298861" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="paramedical-staff" source="keywords">paramedical staff</keyword>, lab technicians, and OT technicians in Delhi hospitals, these poor people are not able to receive adequate and complete treatment, which is being done deliberately under a conspiracy. Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj expressed his surprise at a news article that stated it is the Delhi government's responsibility to fill the <keyword id="20499569" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vacant-posts" source="keywords">vacant posts</keyword> of doctors, nurses, and other paramedical staff in Delhi hospitals. He emphasized that everyone knows the 'Services' Department falls directly under the LG of Delhi, making it the responsibility of the Lieutenant Governor to fill these vacancies. The Health Minister presented letters he had written earlier to the LG informing him about these vacancies. He stated that after taking over as the Health Minister of Delhi in March 2023, he wrote his first letter to the LG on April 19, 2023, informing him of a shortage of 292 General Medical Duty Officers (GDMOs) and 234 Specialists in Delhi Government hospitals, and appealed for these vacancies to be filled as soon as possible. No action was taken to fill these vacancies. Instead, doctors holding high positions in Delhi Government hospitals through <keyword id="22672127" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Central-Health-Services" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Central Health Services" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Central Health Services">Central Health Services</keyword> (CHS) were also recalled by the Central Government, removing them from Delhi Government hospitals.

Delhi Health Minister accuses LG Vinai Saxena of not filling vacant posts in Delhi hospitals

<keyword id="19896018" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kerala" source="keywords">Kerala</keyword> is on high alert following the death of a 14-year-old boy from <keyword id="20824677" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="malappuram" source="keywords">Malappuram</keyword> district due to the <keyword id="21881533" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nipah-virus" source="keywords">Nipah virus</keyword>. To prevent the situation from escalating further, the central government has stepped in to assist the <keyword id="73082" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="kerala-government" source="Orion">Kerala government</keyword> and safeguard the public. A zoonotic illness, the <keyword id="20197512" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="nipah" source="keywords">Nipah</keyword> virus,infection is transmitted from animals like pigs and fruit bats to humans, as well as through contaminated food and contact with an infected person. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has even flagged the virus as a priority pathogen due to its epidemic potential. The boy from Malappuram showed symptoms of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) and was initially treated in Perinthalmanna before being transferred to a higher health centre Kozhikode. The National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune subsequently confirmed the <keyword id="22489646" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nipah-virus-infection" source="keywords">Nipah virus infection</keyword>. In response, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) sent monoclonal antibodies for patient management and a mobile Biosafety Level-3 (BSL-3) laboratory for testing additional samples from contacts. Unfortunately, the boy's “poor general condition” prevented the administration of the antibodies. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Health ministry advises Kerala to take four immediate public health measures" comment="subhead" text="Health ministry advises Kerala to take four immediate public health measures"><keyword id="19896140" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="health-ministry" source="keywords">Health ministry</keyword> advises Kerala to take four immediate public health measures</cmsannotation> The 14-year-old’s demise in Malappuram has triggered an urgent public health response from the Centre, with the Union health ministry advising Kerala to take four immediate health measures to ensure public safety. They are as follows: 1. Active Case Search: The state government should begin active case searches within the family of the confirmed case, the neighbourhood and other areas with similar topography to identify any additional cases. This proactive approach will help in early detection and containment. 2. Contact Tracing: The state should trace contacts the identified case had over the past 12 days. This includes monitoring these contacts for symptoms and taking steps to prevent further spread of the virus. Detailed records of interactions and movements of the infected individual will be crucial. 3. Quarantine and Isolation: Contacts of the confirmed case should be strictly quarantined, and any suspects showing symptoms should be isolated. This measure is essential to contain the virus and prevent it from spreading within the community. 4. Sample Collection and Testing: Samples from potential contacts and suspects should be collected and transported for laboratory testing. This ensures early detection and allows for a swift response to any new cases that may arise. To assist the Kerala government, a multi-member joint outbreak response team from the National ‘<keyword id="15536661" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="One-Health-Mission" source="Orion">One Health Mission</keyword>’ will be deployed. This team will help investigate the case, identify epidemiological linkages and provide technical support. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="111771996" title="What is the Chandipura virus that has already claimed the lives of 6 children in Gujarat?" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div>Meanwhile, Kerala Health Minister Veena George has confirmed that an additional 60 people have been identified as high-risk for contracting the disease. Amid this situation, residents in vulnerable areas have been instructed to take precautions, such as wearing masks in public and avoiding hospital visits. The Nipah virus has been linked to dozens of deaths in Kerala since its first report in 2018. The state has faced multiple outbreaks, with the most recent occurring in 2023 in Kozhikode district.

Nipah virus: Health Ministry instructs Kerala to enforce four immediate safety measures following 14-year-old's death

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Faith Choo became a doctor after she graduated from medical school in 2021.</li><li>However, feelings of burnout drove her to leave the public healthcare system a year after graduating.</li></ul>This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/faith-nadine-choo/">Faith Choo</a>, 27, who left Singapore's public healthcare system and is now working as a locum doctor. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Business Insider has verified her employment history.Since I was 13, I knew I wanted to be a doctor.I was inspired by my parents, who are doctors too. My parents find great fulfillment in their profession. Even though they've been practicing medicine for over three decades, they still love doing it.But it was also my parents who tried to dissuade me from pursuing a career in medicine. They told me some horror stories about what being a doctor was really like and warned me about how taxing it could be.However, I remained deeply inspired by their careers and decided to press on.<h2 id="057884fe-aeb2-4118-83a4-7e24bf33ddff">Medical school was fun but grueling</h2><div type="image" title="Faith Choo (right) and her best friend (left) in their graduation gowns." height="640" width="853" msid="112508673" hostid="261" sizebytes="24162"></div>The first two years of medical school felt like high school all over again. There was lots of studying as well as material to memorize.Things got a lot more exciting but taxing from the third year onwards. That was when we got to shadow junior doctors at the hospital. We also had to spend full working days in the hospital before going home to study at night.It dawned upon me then that we would be taking over from those junior doctors in just a few years. The burden and responsibility of having to take care of patients began to weigh on me.Back then, our seniors in medical school would warn us about life after graduation. They would tell us about the terrible working hours that came with being on call, like having to work for two days straight without rest.I began to worry if I could live up to the challenge. I remembered asking myself, "Can I physically cope with this? Can I mentally step up to this kind of challenge? Do I have the resilience and skills required to do this?"<h2 id="6ed811d4-3c8e-43dc-a69f-33e37017a9e8">Confronting the long hours and feelings of burnout</h2><div type="image" title="Faith Choo sitting at her desk with her stethoscope and medical devices sprawled across the table." height="768" width="1024" msid="112508671" hostid="261" sizebytes="30394"></div>Before college, I did hospital attachments and worked with general practitioners at their clinics. But even that wasn't able to give me a full taste of the role.The biggest transition that came after graduation was the long hours. It wasn't long before the exacting routine, manpower constraints, and feelings of burnout began to pile up on me.The thought of leaving first crossed my mind after I clocked 19 consecutive days of work in the hospital.At some point, you feel like you are more tired than the patients in the hospital. Even the patients get a chance to rest, but for doctors, when you're on a call, you have to make life and death decisions.You are still held to a high level of accountability and you want to do the best for your patients, but you physically can't because you are just so exhausted — and it doesn't feel safe.I realized then that such a job wouldn't be sustainable.<h2 id="a9359a95-2687-4c13-b021-1daaf23c14a7">Life as a medical graduate in Singapore ain't easy</h2>In Singapore. our medical education is <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.moh.gov.sg/hpp/all-healthcare-professionals/career-practice/CareerNPracticesDetails/medical-dental-undergraduate-agreement">heavily subsidized</a> by the government. After graduation, students have to fulfil a service bond of five years. This is on top of the one year of housemanship that takes place right after graduation.Junior doctors could put in about 60 hours of work in a good week, though that can sometimes go up to 80 or 90 hours.This means that you could find yourself spending a huge part of your late twenties to thirties working just to fulfil your bond obligations.This wasn't going to work for me. I didn't think I was physically or mentally able to get through that journey.Even though breaking my bond and leaving then would entail paying back over $375,000 — roughly $75,000 per year.I felt that there was no use destroying my long-term health for money, which could be made back.Surprisingly, my family, friends, and colleagues were supportive of my decision to leave. I also received overwhelming support for the move when <a target="_blank" href="https://chasingfaithandlove.com/2022/07/22/the-great-resignation-part-1/">I blogged about it</a>.<h2 id="4c4127f8-5e15-43de-90c2-8244b3c0f48d">Taking a career break and charting a new course</h2><div type="image" title="Choo went on a career break after leaving the public healthcare system in July 2022." height="2268" width="3024" msid="112508672" hostid="261" sizebytes="754682"></div>After resigning in July 2022, I took a career break to recover from the burnout and traveled for about three months.I now split my time between working as a locum doctor and studying for my graduate diploma in mental health. I'm not craving for a full-time role at this point because I enjoy the freedom that comes with being a locum.For instance, I can just take leave and go off whenever. I also get to choose between working in a clinic or as a telemedicine physician.That said, I wouldn't mind pursuing new ventures that delve into my areas of interest like lifestyle medicine or mental and preventive health.The truth is, I don't think it's easy for governments around the world to tackle the problem of burnout and exhaustion in healthcare.Younger doctors now want work-life balance, and they're not afraid to speak up about it. We know that we can't set ourselves on fire to keep others warm.

I gave up my dream of being a doctor at a local hospital just one year out of medical school. That decision cost me close to half a million dollars, but it was worth it.

Mumbai, Feb 23 (PTI) Former <keyword id="19895394" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="lok-sabha" source="keywords">Lok Sabha</keyword> Speaker Manohar <keyword id="19952829" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="joshi" source="keywords">Joshi</keyword> passed away at a Mumbai hospital on Friday, where he was admitted after suffering a cardiac arrest. Joshi (86) was admitted to <keyword id="20694838" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="hinduja-hospital" source="keywords">Hinduja Hospital</keyword> in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on February 21 and passed away early Friday, the private medical facility said. Joshi Sir, as he was popularly known, was the first chief minister of the undivided Shiv Sena and held the post during 1995-1999. He was admitted to the hospital in May last year after suffering a brain haemorrhage. He was also elected as a member of Parliament and was the Lok Sabha Speaker from 2002 to 2004 when the Vajpayee government was in power. Born on December 2, 1937 in coastal Konkan region of Maharashtra, Joshi obtained his Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the prestigious Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) in Mumbai. His political career began with his involvement in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and he later became a member of the Shiv Sena. In the 1980s, Joshi emerged as a key leader within the Shiv Sena, and was known for his organisational skills. He was the Lok Sabha Speaker from 2002 to 2004 when the Vajpayee government was in power. The former Union minister was married to Anagha Joshi, who died in 2020 at the age of 75. He is survived by a son and two daughters. Joshi began his career as a teacher and entered politics in 1967. He was associated with the Shiv Sena for more than four decades. He was a municipal councilor in Mumbai during 1968-70 and Chairman, Standing Committee of the Mumbai municipal corporation in 1970. He was the Mayor of Mumbai during 1976-1977. He was then elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Council in 1972. After serving three terms in the Legislative Council, Joshi was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 1990 and was the Leader of the Opposition in the assembly during 1990-91. In the 1999 general elections, Joshi won from the Mumbai North-Central Lok Sabha Constituency as a Shiv Sena candidate, and was later Union minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises. Condoling Joshi's demise, Union minister Nitin Gadkari, who was a member of the Maharashtra ministry when the former was the CM, said the state had lost a "cultured face" of politics. Joshi's family said his last rites will be performed at Shivaji Park crematorium in Dadar area.

Former Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi passes away at 86

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rep. Mike Garcia touted $14.9 million in federal funding that he brought to his district this year.</li><li>But most of it came from a must-pass spending bill that he and other Republicans voted against.</li></ul>It was late December 2022, and Republicans were furious about the 2023 omnibus spending bill, a sprawling piece of legislation designed to avert a government shutdown and keep federal spending flowing for the next 9 months.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia had <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-vacationing-in-costa-rica-omnibus-zelenskyy-2022-12">dubbed it</a> the "omnimonster." Kevin McCarthy, then the speaker in waiting, even pledged to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/which-18-republican-senators-voted-omnibus-kevin-mcarthy-block-pledge-2022-12">block the bills</a> of any senator who voted for it. In the end, just <a target="_blank" href="https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2022/roll549.xml">9 Republicans</a> voted for it, only 2 of whom remain in Congress.Republicans who voted against the bill cited the nearly $1.7 trillion price tag, disagreements with the process through which the bill was produced, or their preference that the matter be punted until their party officially assumed control of the House just days later, when they would have more leverage to enact their preferred policies.Rep. Mike Garcia of California, a member of the House Appropriations Committee that oversees government spending, was among those Republicans."I'm voting no on this bill, obviously," Garcia said in a <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/RepMikeGarcia/status/1606056428673716224">Twitter post</a> at the time. "It's too big, it's too expensive, we can't afford it as Americans."Garcia also made that argument — protesting not just the size of the bill, but the haphazard way that it was thrown together — in a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpUwFeDUocg">floor speech</a> and in an <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdsjCSmLMf0">interview on Newsmax</a> that week.<h2>'Delivering results'</h2>Just over half a year later, a <a target="_blank" href="https://frankingfiles.house.gov/28-32410-8.pdf">mailer from Garcia's congressional office</a> landed in mailboxes across his congressional district, which covers northern Los Angeles county.The announcement: Garcia had brought home nearly $15 million in federal spending to the district."As a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, I work hard to secure critical funds for our community every year," the mail reads.$2 million for a nonprofit that aids the homeless. $1.5 million for the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. $1.1 million for traffic cameras in Lancaster. These were among the projects that Garcia touted in the mailer generating <a target="_blank" href="https://signalscv.com/2023/01/elected-leaders-secure-1-3-million-for-citys-safe-routes-to-school/">positive local headlines</a> in the process."Congressman Mike Garcia was absolutely instrumental in securing these dollars specifically to support the Connecting to Success program," Kathy Norris, the President and CEO of the Valley Industrial Association, told a <a target="_blank" href="https://scvnews.com/via-receiving-675k-to-expand-connecting-to-success-program/">local outlet</a> after her organization received $675,000 in federal funding.Yet almost all of the funding that Garcia touted in the mailer came from the omnibus spending bill that he made a show of voting against the previous December.<div type="image" title="A mailer Rep. Garcia sent to constituents in the summer of 2023." height="1486" width="2200" msid="107091583" hostid="261" sizebytes="288134"></div>Specifically, $12.9 million of the $14.9 million came from Community Project Funding — known colloquially as "earmarks" — that ended up in the 2023 omnibus.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/THUD_DISCL_20221216.pdf">Congressional documents</a> from December 2022 <a target="_blank" href="https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/LHHS_DISCL_20221218_2.pdf">confirm</a> that Garcia requested that funding, even though he ultimately voted against the bill that delivered it.The other $2 million, allocated to College of the Canyons for an aircraft technician training program, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.canyons.edu/administration/pio/news/2023-01-18-funding.php">came from</a> the annual defense authorization bill, which Garcia did support.Taken together, it's one example of a phenomenon that Democrats in particular have dubbed "vote no, take the dough" — referring to when Republican lawmakers and other officials celebrate government funding or programs that they actually voted against.In recent years, there have been a wide litany of other examples.Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, who voted against the bipartisan infrastructure law, nonetheless <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tommy-tuberville-federal-broadband-funding-voting-against-bipartisan-infrastructure-2023-6">celebrated</a> billions in broadband funding that it brought to his state. Rep. David Schweikert of Arizona, who voted twice against a veterans' benefits bill, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/david-schweikert-vote-against-pact-act-veterans-benefit-sign-ups-2023-8">encouraged his constituents</a> to sign up for a resulting program. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, who also voted against the 2023 omnibus, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/maria-elvira-salazar-650000-federal-funding-small-business-voted-against-2023-12">recently posed</a> with a giant check that was funded by that bill.Spokespeople for Garcia did not return Business Insider's request for comment, but in the past, Republicans have generally argued that when it comes to earmarks, they can have it both ways."I can celebrate this victory because I fought for it and put my name on this Community Funding project," Salazar <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/maria-elvira-salazar-650000-federal-funding-small-business-voted-against-2023-12">told BI</a>, even as she blasted the underlying omnibus bill for bringing "reckless spending for an already bloated federal government."Garcia wasn't the only Republican to secure earmark funding in the 2023 omnibus, only to vote against that bill — in fact, over 100 Republicans did the same thing, <a target="_blank" href="https://rollcall.com/2022/12/23/gop-omnibus-opponents-bring-home-billions-of-earmarked-dollars/">according to</a> Roll Call.And Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who secured nearly $20 million from the omnibus bill, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lone-democrat-oppose-omnibus-bill-2022-12">also voted against</a> it, citing the bill's funding of the Department of Homeland Security and an increase in military spending.Yet the case of Garcia and others appears to undermine one claims made by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/12/16873520/case-for-and-against-earmarks">proponents of earmarks</a> — that they can encourage lawmakers to take tough votes for major bills, or at least be less willing to tank legislation that stands to benefit their district.In this instance, Garcia was able to secure almost all of what he requested for his district — just two of his earmark requests for Fiscal Year 2023 were denied, according to congressional documents — but that didn't stop him from ultimately trashing the bill.

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The health authorities announced on Wednesday that 82 deaths were reported with 4,727 new cases. With the new figure, Sri Lanka's overall caseload and death toll stood at 3,18,775 and 4,727, respectively. With the outbreak of the Delta variant and overflow of patients, the <keyword id="11794485" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="ratnapura-general-hospital">Ratnapura General Hospital</keyword> and <keyword id="11794483" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="karapitiya-teaching-hospital">Karapitiya Teaching Hospital</keyword> have declared emergencies. Due to the unabated spread of the Delta variant and also an exponential rise in oxygen demand, medical experts have urged the Sri Lankan government to reconsider its decision to lift Covid-19 restrictions. The <keyword id="11794486" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="association-of-medical-specialists">Association of Medical Specialists</keyword> (AMS) requested the government to revisit the curfew-style travel restrictions imposed in May and June to control the fast spreading pandemic as the sector's capacity to treat the growing number of patients has "virtually reached its tipping point" In a statement, the AMS also warned that it's a matter of days till the demand for oxygen exceeds supply. "The lack of oxygen, or more importantly the lack of an oxygen delivery mechanism to patients' bedsides could cause deaths," the experts warned. They said further relaxation of Sri Lanka's Covid-19 restrictions against this backdrop is like adding fuel to the fire. On Tuesday, international health experts warned that Sri Lanka was going to face the worst-ever outbreak in the months ahead. Professor Malik Peiris, Head of Virology at the <keyword id="174517" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="University-of-Hong-Kong">University of Hong Kong</keyword> said "the Delta variant, which played havoc in India, I'm afraid I have to say it is going to have a major impact on Sri Lanka in the coming weeks". SEE ALSO <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/google-is-now-using-chrome-as-another-security-layer-for-account-sign-ins/articleshow/84975356.cms">Google is now using Chrome as an added security layer for account sign-ins</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/how-to-check-allotment-status-of-glenmark-life-sciences-ipo/articleshow/84978486.cms">Glenmark Life Sciences IPO: How to check allotment status, listing date and more</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Israel was blamed for bombing a hospital in Gaza. The media treated its denial with skepticism.</li><li>But it turned out it was not an Israeli airstrike as many assumed.</li></ul>If a tree falls in a forest, and no reporter is there to witness it, the first task for the seeker of truth is to establish: Did the tree even fall down at all?On Tuesday, most international news outlets — and, by extension, most news consumers — were reasonably convinced that a hospital in Gaza had just been destroyed in an explosion, killing many of its patients. Most were also reasonably convinced that Israel was responsible, its denials duly reported but with the knowledge that only one party to the conflict had the firepower and means to deliver such destruction, along with a record of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/middle-east-unrest/another-gaza-hospital-hit-israeli-strike-four-dead-40-hurt-n161086">targeting such facilities</a> in the past."Israel's bombing of the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza killed 500 civilians," declared an <a target="_blank" href="https://www.genocidewatch.com/_files/ugd/df1038_fe5ba418e11d40b2a1dff0d1482b470b.pdf">emergency alert</a> from Genocide Watch, a group that tracks ethnic cleansing and campaigns of mass murder (and which has accused Hamas and the Israeli government of engaging in both, to varying degrees). "The hospital bombing was a clear war crime."By Wednesday, what became clear was that, while narrowly accurate, the most truthful part of Tuesday's reporting was the attribution: that a hospital was destroyed and hundreds of people killed, according to Hamas, a terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip and its various ministries, including the one that reports the Palestinian death toll.The photos that emerged in daylight, of a hospital intact and a parking lot with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gaza-hospital-explosion-inconsistent-with-israeli-strikes-former-un-investigator-2023-10">a crater far too small</a> to be from an Israeli airstrike, called into question everything that most reporters and their readers had taken for granted — and lent credence to the earlier, adamant denials from the Israel Defense Forces. A senior European intelligence official <a target="_blank" href="https://www.lepoint.fr/monde/hopital-a-gaza-incertitudes-sur-le-nombre-de-victimes-19-10-2023-2540039_24.php?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;Echobox=1697715211#xtor=CS1-32-%5BEchobox%5D">also said</a> the actual death toll was likely between 10 and 50 people, while an <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/politics/us-intelligence-assessment-gaza-hospital-blast/index.html">initial US assessment</a> placed the number at the "low end of the 100-to-300 spectrum."There is good reason not to trust the IDF. Last year, in just one example, the Israeli military killed an American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, who was reporting outside the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/al-jazeera-journalist-shireen-abu-akleh-killed-in-west-bank-2022-5">initially claiming</a> she was surrounded by armed militants and potentially killed by Palestinian gunmen. But video and eyewitness testimony contradicted both claims. Evidence <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/middleeast/shireen-abu-akleh-jenin-killing-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html">suggested that</a> Israeli troops were the ones who opened fire and that they deliberately targeted the journalists.What also emerged on Thursday, however, was a possibility that some could not process: One, that the IDF was telling the truth, this time, when it blamed the explosion near the Ahli Arab Hospital on a misfired rocket from Islamic Jihad; and two, that the international media had actually challenged the assertions of Israel, a Western ally, and in this case deferred to the claims of Hamas authorities in Gaza."Just imagine the headlines if Putin had bombed a hospital in Kharkiv, killing 500 people, many of them kids, and then blamed it on the Ukrainians," Yanis Vaourfakis, a leftist economist and Greek politician, posted on social media. "Nothing makes Vlad happier than watching the West's touching attempts to overtake his callous cynicism."Russia has bombed hospitals in Ukraine, as well as Syria, and its denials have been viewed as dubious for a simple reason: If something falls from the sky and explodes, it is generally right to suspect the party with air supremacy. And that is what happened Tuesday, Israeli claims treated with a similar, earned skepticism — even before the bombing of a hospital was an established fact.The knee-jerk response also went the other way. Before the IDF issued a denial, Hananya Naftali, a right-wing Israeli influencer, assumed Israel was responsible — and immediately attempted to justify it: A "Hamas terrorist based inside a hospital" had been attacked, he posted on social media, killing a "number of terrorists." In this, he was indeed no different than commentators who have excused Russia's atrocities: projecting absolute certainty that whatever happened, despite the little we know, was for a damn good reason.Many, then, were embarrassed by what is objectively good albeit startling news: that a hospital in Gaza, reported as leveled, was still standing — and not bombed by the IDF at all. That's a conclusion backed by US intelligence and supported by independent analysts, including a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gaza-hospital-explosion-inconsistent-with-israeli-strikes-former-un-investigator-2023-10">former UN war crimes investigator</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/10/18/identifying-possible-crater-from-gaza-hospital-blast/">researchers at Bellingcat</a>, who noted that the damage seen in photographs shared the next morning was not consistent with the area being struck in an Israeli airstrike.A French intelligence assessment, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.barrons.com/news/french-military-intel-says-no-indication-gaza-hospital-blast-was-israeli-strike-946e673e">made public Friday</a>, also rejected claims of "an Israeli strike," saying there was "nothing to indicate" the hospital was hit by the IDF this week. "The most probable hypothesis is that a Palestinian rocket exploded with a charge of about five kilos," it said.The Associated Press, too, concluded — after an analysis of video and input from "experts with specialties in open-source intelligence, geolocation and rocketry" — that the most likely cause of the blast near the hospital was a misfired rocket, not an Israeli strike.Members of the media (and others) have lessons to learn here.First, the fog of war, paired with social media, is a recipe for inaccuracy. We should all slow down and be more inclined to let the fog lift before broadcasting an unverified claim. While some may see this week's reporting as the product of an anti-Israel bias, the truth is likely more mundane: No news outlet wants to be the last one to cover the most important story of the day.Second, while the IDF's statements should continue to be viewed with healthy skepticism, the official sources in Gaza clearly warrant at least as much scrutiny, controlled as they are by a designated terrorist organization. Hamas has an incentive to blame anything bad that happens in Gaza on the Israeli state and has shown itself willing to fabricate a war crime — claiming a hospital found standing on Wednesday was destroyed the night before. If it wasn't absolutely clear before, it is today: The local health ministry, which rushed out a now seemingly implausible body count, answers to this extremist group.Acknowledging this is not to deny that Palestinians are suffering under Israeli bombardment. People on the ground, with no connection to Hamas, can attest to this, and the IDF would only dispute who is ultimately to blame. That points to the last lesson from all this for partisans of either side and other news consumers: What happens in war will not always reaffirm our prior convictions. Assumptions should always be questioned, and truths acknowledged — convenient or not.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A viral claim falsely said the US government was no longer tracking <keyword id="11893994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19" source="Orion">COVID-19</keyword> deaths.</li><li>In reality, HHS is no longer asking hospitals to report COVID-19 deaths.</li></ul>A claim that the US government is going to stop tracking daily COVID-19 deaths is misleading, despite the fact that it's been reshared thousands of times on Twitter."BREAKING," one viral tweet said. "US Government to end daily COVID death reporting."The tweet then said the US Department of <keyword id="12315016" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="health-and-human-services" source="Orion">Health and Human Services</keyword> will no longer require hospitals to report daily COVID-19 deaths to the agency. That part is true, according to <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-faqs-hospitals-hospital-laboratory-acute-care-facility-data-reporting.pdf">guidance</a> recently issued by HHS, but it does not necessarily impact the daily COVID-19 death counts that the vast majority of people have been consulting throughout the pandemic, experts said.Nearly 3,000 people had retweeted the tweet as of Friday evening. The tweet also racked up concerned replies, including one that said, "The US government doesn't want us to know how many of us are dying," which received more than 1,500 likes.Experts chimed in to counter the idea that the US was no longer tracking COVID-19 deaths."Seriously this is so misleading, please stop spreading it," Erin Kissane, who cofounded <a href="https://covidtracking.com/">The Atlantic's COVID Tracking Project</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/kissane/status/1482140736636129282?s=20">said</a> in a tweet.Kissane said the daily death counts most people are following, like the one maintained by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html">The New York Times</a>, do not rely on or use data from HHS. She said those counts use data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or from local and state health authorities directly."You will be seeing *exactly the same death counts* you saw before unless you're a very specialized data analyst," Kissane said.According to The Times COVID-19 tracker, their sources for case numbers and deaths is "state and local health agencies." It says the source for their hospitalizations count is HHS. The Times did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment on the new HHS guidance.<a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfeldman/home">Justin Feldman</a>, an epidemiologist at Harvard University, also <a href="https://twitter.com/jfeldman_epi/status/1482116665290678273?s=20">tweeted</a> that the change in HHS data "doesn't affect the real-time covid death data that most of us ever see."Feldman said COVID-19 deaths are generally recorded when a death investigator, like a coroner or medical examiner, or a healthcare provider reports it to the state's vital statistics office. The offices then report their numbers to the CDC, the media, and often on public-facing websites."It's also important to note that looking at covid deaths that occur in hospitals alone provides an incomplete picture," Feldman added. According to the <a href="https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Place-of-Death-and-/4va6-ph5s">CDC</a>, about one-third of reported COVID-19 deaths in 2020 occurred outside of hospitals, though experts have said <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/12/09/covid-death-count-america-cdc/6435124001/">official counts have likely undercounted the true number of pandemic deaths</a>.Dr. Jorge Caballero, a physician and health data scientist, disagreed with Kissane and Feldman's belief that the HHS guidance would not impact the COVID-19 death counts most people are seeing. He told Insider in an email that in at least seven states hospitals report deaths to state agencies, which then report to the federal government. In the absence of a federal mandate, "the cadence will default to whatever the states deem to be appropriate for their needs," he said.Kissane and Feldman did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.Caballero also expressed concerns and questioned why HHS would stop tracking in-hospital COVID-19 deaths. He said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/DataDrivenMD/status/1482060515979395075?s=20">tweet</a> that the data are valuable by providing "a surveillance indicator for US health care system stress, capacity, capability, and/or patient safety."HHS did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. In response to Caballero, an HHS spokesperson <a href="https://twitter.com/HHS_Spox/status/1482098752475353090?s=20">said</a>: "COVID mortality data remains publicly accessible."Caballero told Insider Americans will still see daily and weekly COVID-19 death counts, but that those counts are delayed and often incomplete, depending on if and how <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/06/1034556227/many-states-are-not-reporting-the-latest-covid-19-numbers">state and local agencies</a> report deaths. He said the HHS <keyword id="6358650" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hospital" source="Orion">hospital</keyword> data are quicker and more reliable."This policy change means that, just as Omicron deaths skyrocket, we'll be in the dark about it, and we will hinder efforts to quantify how much the death certificate data underestimates the death toll during the current surge and beyond," he said.

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