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Night view of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) medical center in Mission Bay, San Francisco, California, December 2, 2019. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images More than 200 hospital staff members tested positive for COVID-19 in July. Most of those staff members were vaccinated and presented mild to moderate symptoms. The Delta variant has also been known to spread among vaccinated people in breakthrough cases. See more stories on Insider's business page . Hundreds of staffers at two major hospitals in San Francisco have tested positive for coronavirus in July, with most of them being breakthrough cases of the highly infectious Delta variant, The New York Times reported Saturday evening. The University of California, San Francisco Medical Center told media outlets that 183 of its 35,000 staffers tested positive. Of those infected, 84% were fully vaccinated, and just two vaccinated staff members required hospitalization for their symptoms. At Zuckerberg S...

A medical assistant administers a COVID-19 vaccine dose to a woman at a clinic in Los Angeles on March 25, 2021. Mario Tama/Getty Images The University of Southern Mississippi is giving students incentives to get vaccinated. Vaccinated students will be randomly selected to win things like fall tuition and housing credits. Mississippi has one of the country's lowest vaccination rates and is seeing a surge in COVID-19. See more stories on Insider's business page . The University of Southern Mississippi will pay some students in tuition and housing costs if they get vaccinated, the school said in a statement Thursday. The incentive program is intended to encourage students to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Over the next 12 weeks, five vaccinated students will be randomly selected each week to receive rewards. The items students can win include Fall semester tuition, which costs $4,602; $2,000 in housing credits; and $1,000 in dining credits, among other things. "The b...

Former US President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower in Manhattan on July 19, 2021. James Devaney/GC Images An Illinois tax agency ruled last month Trump's Chicago skyscraper was over-assessed in 2011. The ruling means Trump is owed a $1 million refund, but local officials filed a lawsuit to stop it. The refund would come out of property taxes owed to the city and other agencies, including Chicago Public Schools. See more stories on Insider's business page . Former President Donald Trump is owed a tax refund of $1 million for his Chicago skyscraper, but local officials are trying to stop it from being issued. An Illinois tax agency ruled last month that Trump paid too much on his 2011 tax bill after the value of Trump International Hotel and Tower's rooms and retail space was over-assessed by the Cook County Board of Review, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The ruling by the Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board means Trump is owed $1.03 million, which would come fr...

Throughout the pandemic, multiple surveys and studies have indicated that mental health has declined for a number of groups and populations. Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty Images Mental health challenges have been on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new survey from the University of Michigan has quantified some of the effects. Women and US adults ages 50 to 64 have reported worsening mental health during the pandemic. See more stories on Insider's business page . For months, experts have warned about the prospect of a an entirely different threat unleashed by the coronavirus: a mental health crisis that could sweep the country. Their concerns are rooted in more than a year of social isolation, the grief and loss, and economic and emotional trauma that the pandemic has inflicted. A new survey conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan is shedding light on which groups might be most vulnerable to the effects. Four groups - women, people ages 50 to 64, peo...

Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia. AP Photo/John Bazemore Gov. Brian Kemp called out Biden for not working harder to push the FDA to fully approve COVID-19 vaccines. The governor pointed to the vaccine emergency authorization to explain some of the hesitation. Kemp was also critical of the CDC's new guidance on mask-wearing among vaccinated people. See more stories on Insider's business page . GOP Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia on Thursday attempted to shift blame to President Joe Biden for the state's low COVID-19 vaccination rate as the highly-infectious Delta variant continues to spread, according to The Associated Press . While speaking to reporters, Kemp said that Biden needed to push harder to allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to upgrade its emergency use authorization for the COVID-19 vaccines to full approval. Kemp, who won his first race for governor in 2018, also stated that asking people to wear masks once again sends a "mixed message" and m...

Sen. Ron Johnson said Friday that he would only support a vaccine mandate for an "incredibly deadly" disease, but not COVID-19. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images GOP Sen. Ron Johson said he would support a vaccine mandate only for an "incredibly deadly" disease but not COVID-19. COVID-19 has killed more than 613,000 people in the US and more than 4.2 million globally, per Johns Hopkins University . Johnson also attacked the CDC for changing its guidelines on masking. See more stories on Insider's business page . Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, said he would support a vaccine mandate for an "incredibly deadly disease," but said he would not support such a mandate for COVID-19. "No," Johnson said during a Friday evening appearance on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle" when asked whether he would ever support any sort of vaccine mandate. "Not unless there's some incredibly deadly diseas...

Keith Srakocic/AP Amazon delivery companies in the US are instructing workers to skip daily van inspections that ensure worker safety, CNBC reported . Workers from several US states have detailed instances where they went against safety protocol for fear of managerial retribution. Amazon is investigating these claims and their delivery networks, which the company has full power over . See more stories on Insider's business page . Ten current and former drivers for delivery companies contracted by Amazon say they've been told by their managers ignore basic safety issues, like jamming doors, damaged seatbelts, low tire tread, busted rearview cameras, and broken mirrors. Amazon contracts 2,000 private delivery firms through its DSP (delivery service partner) program, which accounts for 115,000 drivers in the US who help with the company's daily fulfillment operations. Read more: I'm a part-time Amazon delivery driver. Here's how we cheat to get around the...

Housing activists erect a sign in front of Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's house in Swampscott, Mass. Michael Dwyer/AP Photo With the eviction moratorium likely coming to an end Saturday, millions of renters are expected to be plunged into housing disarray. About 73 percent of renters likeliest to be evicted are people of color. About 56 percent are women. More than half of the likeliest people vulnerable to eviction make less than $25,000 in total household income. See more stories on Insider's business page . The eviction moratorium is expected to end on July 31, after Congress failed to renew it before heading into recess until mid-September. Once the moratorium expires, about 7.4 million Americans will risk getting evicted in the next coming months, according to Census Pulse Survey Data . Women, people of color, and low-income households are the most vulnerable groups of renters who will be exposed to the consequences brought on by the end of the eviction mora...