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Sutter Health, the lawsuit says, purchased a cleaning chemical to combat hospital-borne bugs that itself caused dozens of employees to fall ill. Also in the news: IBM's Watson, investments in digital health, Anthem's new chief, nurses and a student loan relief program in Pennsylvania.
News outlets cover a new bill introduced in Maine that would allow recreational dispensaries to deliver legally-bought weed to buyers' homes. Separate reports say that gross sales have topped $1.2 billion since recreational marijuana went on sale in Arizona a year ago.
The company has been reimbursed over $124 million from the federal government for covid tests. Earlier, the Minnesota Attorney General's Office filed a consumer-protection lawsuit against the company. Modern Healthcare, meanwhile, says large insurers lack consumer-friendly test coverage.
In Virginia, the new Republican governor's mask-optional mandate starts today. Many people have vowed to fight or uphold the order with everything they can muster, including one Virginia mom who was charged Friday after threatening to bring loaded guns to school.
Researchers looking at the impact of covid vaccines on fertility say there's no reduction in chances of becoming pregnant. But some evidence for short-term reduction in male fertility after a covid infection was found. Meanwhile, another study shows Moderna outperforms Pfizer against delta.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized Gilead Sciences' antiviral treatment remdesivir to be administered outside of a hospital for some mild-to-moderate covid patients. The intravenous drug that is infused over three days would have to be delivered at an outpatient clinic.
The three studies published Friday are by far the most comprehensive and reliable assessments of the role booster shots are playing in the U.S. pandemic, The New York Times reported, noting that the researchers reviewed millions of cases and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and deaths.
Hospital administrators face difficult choices as a spike of covid patients seek treatment in their overtaxed facilities. Meanwhile, nurses, doctors and other health workers try to cope with the latest surge.
While those who has completed their original covid vaccine protocol will still be defined as "fully vaccinated," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky says the agency will start emphasizing the need to be "up to date" with a booster shot. Walensky also spoke about the state of the U.S. public health system during an interview with Politico.
Both states smashed records over the weekend. Meanwhile in Houston, the city is poised to hit 400,000 covid cases Monday, just a month after hitting 300,000.
While cautioning that this covid virus has "surprised" us in the past, Dr. Anthony Fauci told ABC "This Week" that the case trends "are looking good. We don't want to get overconfident, but they look like they're going in the right direction right now."
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Every one of the 200-plus athletes going to the Beijing Winter Olympics is reported to be fully vaccinated. Meanwhile, the Chinese authorities are limiting the traditional torch relay to just three days. In France, covid restrictions are due to be lifted soon, and Austria mandated shots for adults.
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A study from the Commonwealth Fund found Florida employees paid more for health insurance than in nearly every other state. A different report sheds light on why Chicago's air quality didn't get as much as a reprieve during the pandemic as other places: It's diesel fuel's fault.
In other news, Florida's health providers and insurers have been given permission to use their own dispute resolution process instead of the federal No Surprises Act system. Florida's orthopedic surgeons are also in the news for suing HCA, alleging anticompetitive conduct.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) revealed that the intelligence community’s expert panel on Havana Syndrome will wrap up its work “in about 10 days,” and he questioned why the CIA would release its assessment ahead of that group’s work, Politico reported.
The organ transplant success saw genetically altered pig kidneys functioning inside a patient, who was already brain dead, for over 70 hours. In other news, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a quarter of U.S. adults are too sedentary to protect their health.
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