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Nearly half of all Americans say they have delayed receiving medical care since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to arecent surveyfrom the Kaiser Family Foundation. But for the48 million Americanswith hearing loss, the pandemic has its own set of challenges.As a deaf man who has worn cochlear implants for most of his adult life, Shane Delaney typically goes to his audiolog stanley cup ist twice a year. He had just gotten a new processor, and was still in the process of programming his hearing. They only had it on some of the basic settings, so I could readjust to hearing again, he told CBS News in a Zoom interview. Then the virus hit and he lost his job working at a cafe near Sarasota, Florida. He wasn t hearing as well as he was used to. Once masks became the norm, he felt even more lost. Even if I have a piece of paper and a pen, to ask where something is in the grocery aisle, it s five minutes mdash; compared to the two seconds for a hearing person stanley cup , he said. For the average person that has difficulty hearing, it s a minefield trying to get out there and do what they need to do every day. That minefield also includes automated phone calls and telehealth appointments that are not easy to navigate w stanley cup ith a partially-programmed processor. I already hear electronically, so having that broken down into a second layer of digital sound, it comes out very robotic, he explains. I almost can t distinguish certain words at all. A cochlear Kepl Labor Department says gig workers aren t employees
Oklahoma became the 30th state to legalize medical marijuana earlier this week, but residents who want to have a medical cannabis card and own a gun may see their hopes go up in smoke.On Thursday, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ATF confirmed toABC affiliate KOCO-TVthat the conditions of a 2011 open letter, which states that federal l yeezy aw prohibits anybone who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance from possessing firearms or ammunition, still stands. The letter says that anyone who uses marijuana, regardless of state law, qualifies as an unlawful user of the controlled substance, and is therefore prohibited from owning a gun.Federal officials went on to say that possession of a medical marijuana card was reasonable cause to suspect the card owner of being an unlawful marijuana user, even if the person obtained the card legally. Using a controlled substance is a prohibitor, s reebok imilar to being convicted of a felony offense, Meredith Davis, a special agent with the ATF, toldNBC affiliate KFOR-TV. As theBureau outlines, felons are prohibited from possessing a firearm. One loophole t adidas samba hat could allow a household to access to both a gun and a medical marijuana card, KFOR-TVreports, is if a spouse required medical marijuana for an illness and the other spouse owned a firearm. According to KFOR-TV, in that instance, the ATF could grant permission for the gun to remain in the household, as long
Nearly half of all Americans say they have delayed receiving medical care since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to arecent surveyfrom the Kaiser Family Foundation. But for the48 million Americanswith hearing loss, the pandemic has its own set of challenges.As a deaf man who has worn cochlear implants for most of his adult life, Shane Delaney typically goes to his audiolog stanley cup ist twice a year. He had just gotten a new processor, and was still in the process of programming his hearing. They only had it on some of the basic settings, so I could readjust to hearing again, he told CBS News in a Zoom interview. Then the virus hit and he lost his job working at a cafe near Sarasota, Florida. He wasn t hearing as well as he was used to. Once masks became the norm, he felt even more lost. Even if I have a piece of paper and a pen, to ask where something is in the grocery aisle, it s five minutes mdash; compared to the two seconds for a hearing person stanley cup , he said. For the average person that has difficulty hearing, it s a minefield trying to get out there and do what they need to do every day. That minefield also includes automated phone calls and telehealth appointments that are not easy to navigate w stanley cup ith a partially-programmed processor. I already hear electronically, so having that broken down into a second layer of digital sound, it comes out very robotic, he explains. I almost can t distinguish certain words at all. A cochlear Kepl Labor Department says gig workers aren t employees
Oklahoma became the 30th state to legalize medical marijuana earlier this week, but residents who want to have a medical cannabis card and own a gun may see their hopes go up in smoke.On Thursday, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ATF confirmed toABC affiliate KOCO-TVthat the conditions of a 2011 open letter, which states that federal l yeezy aw prohibits anybone who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance from possessing firearms or ammunition, still stands. The letter says that anyone who uses marijuana, regardless of state law, qualifies as an unlawful user of the controlled substance, and is therefore prohibited from owning a gun.Federal officials went on to say that possession of a medical marijuana card was reasonable cause to suspect the card owner of being an unlawful marijuana user, even if the person obtained the card legally. Using a controlled substance is a prohibitor, s reebok imilar to being convicted of a felony offense, Meredith Davis, a special agent with the ATF, toldNBC affiliate KFOR-TV. As theBureau outlines, felons are prohibited from possessing a firearm. One loophole t adidas samba hat could allow a household to access to both a gun and a medical marijuana card, KFOR-TVreports, is if a spouse required medical marijuana for an illness and the other spouse owned a firearm. According to KFOR-TV, in that instance, the ATF could grant permission for the gun to remain in the household, as long