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Crain's Cleveland Business reports MetroHealth's tech-driven program to deliver high-touch care for patients in their own home has been active for nearly two years. A contract dispute that could shape future Medicare Advantage negotiations and more are also in the news.
News outlets cover moves by the city's district attorney to investigate and potentially prevent misuse of DNA from rape kits being used later to incriminate victims. Meanwhile, the megadrought affecting southwestern North America is now thought to be the worst in 1,200 years.
The number represents under 1% of the city workforce required to get at least one shot by last Friday. About 900 worked at the Department of Education; 36 were from the New York Police Department. In other parts of the country: two cities relax vaccine requirements for entering businesses while two states advance bills that would limit employer mandates.
Reports suggest that some educational establishments are following state rules on lifting mask mandates, while others choose to keep rules in place. The moves come even as medical experts caution that mask mandate-lifting may be happening too soon. Some students agree.
The AP covers efforts by some health workers to avoid mandated covid vaccinations by applying for exemptions on religious grounds. Other media outlets cover a potential out-flux of health workers to other industries, professionals leaving mental health care jobs, and more.
The latest weekly average is still high — over 175,000 new infections — but it's a 42% drop from the prior week. Trends in Nebraska, California, and Maine are also reported.
The Senate narrowly advanced Robert Califf's nomination. The formal vote on whether to confirm him to lead the Food and Drug Administration is expected as early as Tuesday.
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The pandemic situation may be improving globally, thanks to treatments and vaccines, and news outlets report the overall effect seems to be falling death rates. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has said preventing all infections is impossible as it tracks four omicron variants.
Opinion writers delve into these covid topics.
The event is organized by the city's division of public health and community services. Meanwhile, in Boston, Gov. Charlie Baker signed a $101 million supplemental budget that includes support for paid covid sick leave, and in Maine, a group organizes an amateur radio-based emergency service.
Covid poses a dilemma for reviving people who are drowning, but now an international group of experts have shown how PPE and bag-valve masks can be used as a proxy for mouth-to-mouth. The war on opioids is also in the news, with a call to pay more attention to addiction.
The health system's net income grew over 27% versus 2020's figures despite higher demands on its services during this phase of the pandemic. Medical school enrollments, health system joint ventures, the unknown impact of telehealth on costs, and more are also in the news.
News outlets cover the upcoming vote at the Federal Trade Commission over a potential probe into how pharmacy benefit managers affect the prescription drug industry. Separately, health workers exposed to formaldehyde have a higher risk of developing cognitive impairment later.
Meanwhile, Walmart announces that it will drop its mask mandate for fully-vaxxed workers. And in California, some lawmakers want businesses to require that their employees get a covid shot.
A government error resulted in $310 million in overpayments to hospitals that run nursing schools, and federal officials said they would collect that money by taking it out of Medicare reimbursements this summer. In news about a different federal program, Georgia looks to expand Medicaid coverage for new moms, and states brace for confusion when the pandemic ends and millions of people are likely to be pushed out of the health program for people with low-incomes.
A group of Republican lawmakers argues that it's time for the nation's "public health emergency" designation to be lifted. And while more states and cities end mask mandates, President Joe Biden says it may be to too soon to do so. Other federal pandemic measures and debates are also in the news.
Stat and CIDRAP report on the arrival of oral antiviral meds at pharmacies and the new authorization of an infused medication, Eli Lilly's monoclonal drug bebtelovimab to treat covid. Yet many patients don't know about the drugs or don't want to take them. Meanwhile, research finds that antihistamines may help tackle long covid.
Covid cases may be dropping in some parts of the country, but hospitals in Oklahoma, Utah, and Connecticut are still reeling from a crush of patients. In Ohio, where cases are improving, National Guard members are leaving their posts at hospitals.
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