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
But what if they make some people sick instead?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Motion sickness doesn't affect all EV passengers - many owners got in touch with BBC News to say they and their relatives don't get sick in electric vehicles.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
“It’s this man. I’ve carried him over two hundred miles and he won’t help push up the hills. I’m sick of him. I’m going to leave him here in the Burn.…”
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
She described the vets in the study as older and sicker than the general public.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Payments are adjusted for medical risk factors, so insurers are paid more to cover sicker beneficiaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
But Rosie got sicker and a biopsy showed in 2024 that she did have terminal cancer.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 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
Then Lynn would miss me and might get sicker.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
He said larger centres improved survival chances for the sickest babies, who would have access to highly trained specialist staff, equipment and surgery.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
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
Some of the sickest burns on the internet right now are coming from French bureaucrats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Carr, who oversees regulations for broadcast stations, called Kimmel’s remarks “the sickest conduct possible” and called for ABC to act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
Dan Dalgard, wearing a respirator and a jumpsuit, selected four sick monkeys for sacrifice, the ones he thought looked the sickest.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
