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Harvard University said Saturday it would implement remote learning for the first three weeks of 2022. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, meanwhile, said that unvaccinated students exposed to covid can remain in school subject to a testing regime.
Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke to the press and said the new omicron covid variant was "raging around the world." Outgoing National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins warned the U.S. could even see days where a million new cases were reported, unless people took covid more seriously.
In overtaxed U.S. health facilities where covid is surging, more doctors and nurses report facing hostility and even physical threats while trying to save their patients.
The cruise ended in Miami on Saturday, with at least 44 people on board testing positive for covid. The New York Times reports on how surging covid is impacting holiday travel plans, and outgoing National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins said travel for unvaccinated people was not "a great idea."
Preliminary lab data finds that a booster half dose of Moderna's covid vaccine raises antibody levels against the variant by 37 times, the drugmaker said in a statement. The company is still moving forward with plans to develop a vaccine modified for omicron.
Two shots of a low-dose Pfizer covid vaccine did not produce an adequate immune response in children ages 2 to 5 participating in a clinical trial. Pfizer and BioNTech say they will next test a third dose.
The CDC says the number of people 65 and older with at least one shot is 95%, lowered from 99.9%. Bloomberg reported that the move acknowledged what state officials have discovered: The U.S. has counted too many shots as first doses when they are instead second doses or booster shots.
Democrats erupted in anger over Sen. Joe Manchin's surprise announcement Sunday that he would not support the $2 trillion legislation after 5 months of negotiation, while Republicans hailed the "maverick" move. The White House did not mince words, calling it "a breach of his commitments to the president and the senator’s colleagues in the House and Senate."
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News outlets cover how the infectious omicron covid variant is reshaping, at the last minute, travel and booster shot plans around the world. Meanwhile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared its 13th Ebola outbreak over, and The Washington Post covers a US-built cancer hospital in Iran.
Opinion writers delve into these covid and vaccine issues.
Meanwhile, OSHA's emergency covid prevention standards may lapse in less than a week, and Modern Healthcare reports stakeholders aren't sure what's next. Prospect Medical is reportedly seeking buyers, Acadia partners with Fairview for a new hospital in Minnesota, hospital "facility" fees and more.
Media outlets cover the closing arguments, saying Elizabeth Holmes "willfully lied" about the blood testing technology at the core of Theranos' business. Calls for drug supply chain restructuring, an FDA rebuke for Endo, demotions at Amazon Pharmacy and CMS' "breakthrough device" rules are also reported in health industry news.
The Navy is reportedly not considering closing the jet fuel storage facility, which dates from World War II, even after it was found to have contaminated local water supplies. A link between rural poverty and a state's decision to not expand Medicaid and a proposal to split Alaska's health budget in two are also in the news.
At issue for the federal judge: a measure in the bankruptcy settlement in the opioids lawsuits that would have protected members of the Sackler family from facing individual litigation. Purdue Pharma plans to appeal the ruling.
The University of Maryland has had to cancel its winter commencement after over 100 covid cases hit its campus. Meanwhile, Emory University and Stanford University are mandating booster shots as omicron looms. Other covid news in education is also reported.
The professional basketball league enhanced its safeguards through the holiday season with more testing and a return of masks for many situation. And the football league is making it easier for fully vaccinated players who test positive but are asymptomatic to return to the field.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to lift a lower court block on the vaccine mandate that impacts health workers in about half of the states. And members of the military are dismissed for refusing to get the shot.
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