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As President Joe Biden copes with his "mild symptoms," the White House is putting its pandemic strategy to the highest test. Differences in where the nation was when then-President Donald Trump had covid are also in the news.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial writers delve in to abortion and other public health topics.
Opinion writers examine covid, monkeypox and mental health.
The World Health Organization had sobering news about the pandemic, with activity stable but still high, and deaths rising. News from Australia, where deaths are up in the winter, shows covid is still an ongoing risk. The WHO also warned that denying refugees health care could violate their rights.
A health alert about the mosquito-borne virus has now been issued in Florida, with people asked to take preventative measures against mosquitoes. Separately, a Florida nurse was sentenced to a year in prison for replacing some of a hospital's fentanyl doses with saline.
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Keytruda, a cancer therapy drug from Merck, failed to show improvements in head and neck cancer patients' event-free survival times. Physicians joining unions, nurse burnout, remote-work for nurses, rising health industry profit projections, and more are also in the industry news.
It's possible existing systems to surveil influenza around the world showed indicators of an outbreak of covid before it was properly understood early in the pandemic. Meanwhile, Zenger News reports on a promising new blood test based on the KRAS gene that could change early cancer detection.
Some of the devices on a new list from the Food and Drug Administration could cause injuries, with UV-C emissions far above recommended limits. Meanwhile, in King County, Washington, a public health crisis has been declared due to a record-breaking flood of fentanyl overdoses.
The Biden administration's existing Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, known as ASPR, will be promoted to a level on par with the CDC and FDA, in an effort to address deficiencies within the Department of Health and Human Services exposed during the covid pandemic.
The Hill notes that President Joe Biden stopped short of declaring a national climate emergency, and instead highlighted the dangers of climate change. The warning came as extreme heat hits the U.S. and other countries, killing thousands. Over 100 million Americans are under dangerous heat advisories.
House Democrats are pushing to protect access to contraception ahead of any potential Supreme Court rulings on the matter — a threat indicated by Justice Clarence Thomas' opinion in the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Same-sex marriage rights are also in the news. Prospects in the Senate are uncertain.
Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Patty Murray wants HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to brief lawmakers on the U.S. response to rising cases of monkeypox. Meanwhile, experts are watching the progress of critical vaccine programs.
Legal uncertainty around abortion has already impacted some patients’ access to life-saving procedures and medicines in Texas, including for one woman who detailed her distressing story. In Georgia, a federal court allows a six-week "heartbeat" law to go into effect. And Planned Parenthood challenges a century-old law in Arizona.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Department of Justice will "use every tool we have to ensure reproductive freedom," and will ask a judge to toss a Texas lawsuit challenging federal rules that doctors perform abortions to save the life of the mother.
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