Data Shows COVID Precautions Gave ‘screenable’ Cancers an Unwelcome Opening; NY Top Court: Presence of Coronavirus Doesn’t Trigger Business-Loss Coverage, and other C-Virus related stories
Data shows COVID precautions gave ‘screenable’ cancers an unwelcome opening:
Many public health experts believe global pandemics will become more frequent in coming years. Given the advance warning, healthcare leaders should plan now to encourage screening compliance then.
This is one self-evident conclusion to draw from a new study showing more than 134,000 adult cancers may have gone undiagnosed in the U.S. between March and December of 2020.
In that timeframe, the COVID-19 crisis—along with the aggressive avoidance and prevention measures it prompted—deterred millions from keeping up with outpatient care visits, including cancer screenings.
The study was conducted at the University of Kentucky and published Feb. 22 in JAMA Oncology.
Lead author Todd Burus, MAS, and colleagues note that the tally of 134,000 undetected cancers translates to one cancer missed for every nine caught.
Looking at 1.3 million cancer cases reported in the study period, the team found observed rates of all-sites cancer incidence were 28.6% lower than expected during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic response, that being March through May of 2020.
Reported cancers also were 6.3% lower than expected from June through December of that year 13% lower during the pandemic’s first 10 months.
Other key findings from the study: —>READ MORE HERE
NY Top Court: Presence of Coronavirus Doesn’t Trigger Business-Loss Coverage
The Court of Appeals had been charged with answering whether “the actual, suspected, or threatened presence of COVID-19″ in the restaurants had caused direct physical loss or damage.
New York’s top court on Thursday unanimously rejected a COVID-related, business interruption appeal brought by a Texas-based operator of seven restaurant brands that had sued its insurer.
The court had been charged with answering whether “the actual, suspected, or threatened presence of COVID-19″ in the restaurants had caused direct physical loss or damage to the properties within the meaning of an insurance policy issued by the defendant.
Judge Caitlin Halligan wrote the opinion for the New York Court of Appeals, concluding that the business interruption caused by the actual presence of the coronavirus on the premises of Consolidated Restaurant Operations’ insured property was insufficient to trigger such coverage.
The court concluded that CRO did not sufficiently allege “direct physical loss or damage,” preventing the court from even reaching the question of whether the exclusions in the policy apply, Halligan wrote. —>READ MORE HERE
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