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JAMA Internal Medicine publishes results from an observational study of U.S. veterans that finds very low risks with both covid vaccines. Meanwhile, news outlets look ahead to a pending decision on vaccine authorization for the littlest kids.
Doctors say they are now seeing adenovirus, rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, human metapneumovirus, influenza, parainfluenza, and more at unusual times of the year. Health precautions taken during the height of the pandemic, as well as eliminating those precautions now, are likely to blame. “All of these decisions have consequences,” said one infection-control expert.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, signed a law that protects medical professionals who provide abortion from arrest, extradition, and legal proceedings in other states that might outlaw abortion by forbidding New York state and local courts and law enforcement agencies from cooperating in most scenarios.
In a small number of semen samples studied in Italy, evidence of monkeypox DNA was discovered, raising the question of whether the virus may be a sexually transmitted disease. In the U.S., little testing and contact tracing for the disease stifles public health efforts to track outbreaks.
The White House says President Joe Biden is not believed to be a close contact of either Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, who both announced positive covid tests shortly after attending the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. Other lawmakers and entertainers also contract the virus in this latest surge.
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Canada would become the first nation to stamp a warning on each stick, decades after it became the first to include graphic, picture-based warnings on packages.
The Milbank Memorial Fund covered funeral expenses — $100 at most — for black men who died in the U.S. government research project. To get the money, AP reports, widows had to consent to letting doctors perform autopsies on the men. “It was wrong. We are ashamed of our role. We are deeply sorry,” Christopher F. Koller, president of the fund, publicly acknowledged Saturday.
Patients who had the surgery were 48% less likely to die of cancer than their counterparts who did not have surgery, The Washington Post reported. Also in public health news: "Forever chemicals" and their ties to high blood pressure; 3D-printed organs; Ramsay Hunt syndrome; and more.
Abortion opponents are pushing to have some states recognize that embryos are persons and that could change how these embryos are used and disposed. Also, doctors talk about their concerns over ambiguous language in some states' laws restricting abortion and how that could make treating women suffering a miscarriage difficult. If the Supreme Court overturns its 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision, many questions about how states go forward will fall to state supreme courts.
A group of scientists proposes abandoning the geographic reference in favor of numbers, as less discriminatory. Other news related to the monkeypox outbreak reports on more cases, educational efforts, diagnosis difficulties, and more.
As of Sunday, the Biden administration has lifted its requirements that international flyers test negative for covid a day before arriving in the U.S. Other pandemic news reports on masking, employer safety measures, air quality in schools, and more.
The Associated Press reports that Food and Drug Administration officials did not perform annual safety inspections at 20 of 23 plants that make infant formula in 2020, due to the covid pandemic. Meanwhile, more supplies arrive in the U.S. from abroad.
The Food and Drug Administration's review of Pfizer and BioNTech's covid shot regimen — as well as that of Moderna, which also yielded positive results — will be put to its panel of vaccine experts on Wednesday.
Senate negotiations have yielded a framework for limited gun legislation supported by enough Republicans to overcome a filibuster. President Joe Biden said the deal “does not do everything that I think is needed, but it reflects important steps in the right direction, and would be the most significant gun safety legislation to pass Congress in decades.”
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The fatality is also the second case of the virus this year in the state. Also in the news: Maine's plans for paid family and medical leave; Florida's Gov. DeSantis, a Republican, may push to investigate parents who take kids to see drag shows; efforts to close Colorado's infant mortality gap; and more.
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