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Pac-12 media rights deal on hold as league awaits resolution on UCLA’s Big Ten status from regents meeting
The Pac-12’s long, winding road toward long-term security was never supposed to last this long. It is mid-December, and the league still must wait on the conclusion of Wednesday’s University of California system regents meeting to proceed in its media rights negotiations. Almost six months after news broke of USC and UCLA departing for the Big Ten in 2024, the league still has not reconfigured. While it is considered almost a formality by some that UCLA will ultimately be allowed to join the Big Ten, the regents’ concerns dragging the process out this long has added a layer of skittishness to the proceedings. “It has significantly impacted the timeline,” Pac-12…
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Paxlovid Has Been Free So Far. Next Year, Sticker Shock Awaits.
Hannah Recht Almost 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government. The Pfizer tablet has served avert lots of people contaminated with covid-19 from becoming hospitalized or dying, and it might even lower the threat of developing lengthy covid. But the authorities ideas to prevent footing the bill inside months, and hundreds of thousands of persons who are at the best risk of severe sickness and are least capable to pay for the drug — the uninsured and seniors — may well have to pay the complete price tag. And that signifies less persons will get the potentially lifesaving therapies, experts explained. “I imagine the…
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