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Public health experts worry that converging crises around shootings, anger over the political landscape, and pandemic isolation are leaving Americans feeling more vulnerable and jittery than ever. Meanwhile, state and federal lawmakers make — or debate — moves on guns in uncertain times.
The study looked at Italian health care workers, with long covid found in nearly 42% of unvaxxed workers but in only 16% of those with three shots. Stat reports on how to understand "startlingly" large percentages of people with long covid. Also: A new vaccine may protect against future covid variants.
According to CNN, a study based on the health records of nearly 6 million people treated in the VA Health System found that those with two or more covid infections had higher risks for lung and heart problems, fatigue, digestive and kidney disorders, diabetes, and neurologic problems.
Legal wrangling over state abortion laws continued in courtrooms across the South Tuesday. And in Montana, one provider will no longer provide medication abortions to out-of-state patients.
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Bloomberg says the U.K.'s National Health Service will trial using drones to deliver key medicines like chemotherapy drugs to speed up access. Separately, AP says covid cases are rising across the U.K., up more than 30% in the last week, with new omicron subvariants blamed for the surge.
At least 24 people have been sickened by listeria, with one death, in a recent outbreak that is now linked to Florida ice cream brand Big Olaf Creamery by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Care for adults with Down syndrome, salmonella in ground chicken products and more are also in the news.
The fall in life expectancy through 2021 was the second in two years, according to state health department data. Meanwhile, Iowa has detected its first probable case of monkeypox, and New York is working toward fixing its public restroom crisis.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced last week that it will use payroll data to make sure nursing homes have enough staff. CMS also proposed that hospitals participating in the new "Rural Emergency Hospital" model must meet similar criteria to critical-access hospitals.
Media outlets cover the ever-expanding death toll of covid in the U.S. The San Francisco Chronicle draws particular attention to the highly infectious omicron subvariant BA.5, which one expert calls a "different beast." Reports say subvariants are driving the spread of the virus across California.
The Columbus Dispatch reports on how Ohioans are considering reproductive care options under the new abortion ban, with some stocking up on Plan B, and one woman describes how she's considering sterilization as an option. Also: more on Plan B, employer abortion aid, and impacts on doctors.
The court's decision overruled a district judge in Houston who had temporarily blocked the nearly century-old law from going into force. Other reports cover a "flood" of calls from Texas to a New Mexico abortion clinic, abortion rights groups suing over Oklahoman abortion bans, and more.
Kansas will be the first state to put the issue in voters' hands since the Supreme Court empowered states to determine abortion rights. But critics question the timing of the vote, which will be held during the August primary instead of the November general election, when more people would turn out.
In a bench trial lawsuit, a federal judge ruled that McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen did not create a public nuisance in a West Virginia county where 81 million opioid pills were distributed over 8 years.
A gunman targeted an Independence Day parade in Illinois, where an obstetrician rushed to help the wounded. And two police officers were shot at a fireworks event in Philadelphia.
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