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The Houston Chronicle covers the inevitable news, with the death of a man in his 50s in Harris County. The paper also reports on a doubling of child covid hospitalizations over four days. Meanwhile, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio expects omicron to surge but peak in just a few weeks.
The Biden administration announced a purchase of 500 million rapid covid tests and will start distributing them to the states next month. It will also deploy 1,000 military health workers to some overwhelmed hospitals. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden will ask tired Americans not to let down their guard this winter.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Switzerland and Turkey were also included in the decision, driven by surges in the omicron variant of covid. The Netherlands has entered a lockdown during an omicron spike, and covid hospitalizations have jumped in London.
Opinion writers examine these covid and vaccine issues.
In other news, a controversy simmers over a brief shut-off of fluoridation of Anchorage's water supply; researchers in Utah are working on new ways to screen for breast cancer; a decline in infant mortality in Alabama; and Louisiana adds a new "autism" designator to driver's licenses.
Dallas Morning News reports that donated blood stocks and donor turnout are the lowest ahead of the holiday season in over a decade. Meanwhile, Proctor and Gamble is recalling dry conditioner and shampoos over benzene contamination, and a bill aims to warn parents over artificial food dyes.
More health care systems were breached by hackers than any year since 2010, but luckily fewer people's data were affected than in serious attacks made in 2015. Medicare residency slots, more doctors considering retirement and details on Oracle's plan to buy Cerner are also in the news.
In other pharmaceutical industry news, AbbVie has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to investigate Alvotech, which is planning a biosimilar version of its Humira arthritis drug. And questions are raised over a popular I.V.F. test, which may not be effective for first-time patients.
News outlets report on interviews with the outgoing director of the National Institutes Of Health Francis Collins. Collins admits President Donald Trump and other Republicans pressured him to endorse unproven covid drugs like hydroxychloroquine. But the story is complex when it comes to pressure to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci: CNN's report says he did face such calls, but Fox News' says Collins called such pressure "rumors."
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."
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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