sick
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Immigrant patients who did come into the ER during the first four weeks after June 5, 2025, were significantly more likely to be sick enough to require hospitalization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
A delayed reaction adds to the muddle because most victims don’t get sick until hours after eating, and weeks or months after the tick bite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
The more journeys you take in electric vehicles, the less likely you are to become motion sick as your body adjusts, Golding says.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
But what if they make some people sick instead?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
It was supposed to contain Mrs. Margaret O’Hana, but she’d gotten sick with the measles and hadn’t been able to make it to the performance that night.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
“But what they’re doing is also potentially making you sicker and sicker and sicker.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
In the current system, premiums are calculated by assessing the full pool of enrollees, including those who are older and sicker and tend to spend more on medical care.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 30, 2026
Typically, as health-insurance costs rise, healthier people are the most likely to forgo insurance, leaving a sicker, more costly pool of policyholders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Since Medicare pays private insurers a set amount per member, the risk-adjusted model ensures companies don’t selectively choose healthy people by paying them more for sicker patients.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
Now Dr. Darwin, their last parent, was getting sicker and sicker.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
Those potential costs led many state Medicaid programs and some health plans to restrict coverage of the drug to the sickest patients.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Bed-and-breakfast hotels turned into cheap boardinghouses, attracting Britain’s sickest and poorest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
In 2023, the year Alice lost her daughter, OUH had the highest stillbirth rate compared to 25 specialist trusts that care for the sickest babies.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
Carr called Kimmel’s comments “the sickest conduct possible.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025
Paul Farmer, the renowned physician who has spent his life trying to cure the world's sickest and poorest people, once quoted me something that the writer Thomas Merton said: We are bodies of broken bones.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
