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Regional hospitals will soon report whether patients were admitted due to covid, or tested positive after admission for other issues. The goal is to get a better grip on how the latest covid surge is affecting hospital capacity.
The World Health Organization's messaging is that while is seems like omicron infections are hitting people less severely, people are still being hospitalized and are dying. News outlets cover other omicron news, including breakthrough infections and how the variant changes risk calculations.
Researchers find that the covid vaccines might temporarily change a person's menstruation timing or flow. But the shots showed no impact on fertility, as has been falsely linked in disinformation campaigns.
Some prominent experts have started recommending the additional swab in the throat because omicron appears to be more concentrated there. People on social media have begun swapping instructions for how to do that with at-home test kits.
A group of transition health advisers to President Joe Biden published journal articles that advocate for learning to live with covid, rather than focusing on eradication, at this phase of the pandemic. When asked about those arguments, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, “The president’s ultimate goal continues to be to defeat the virus.”
Meanwhile, the governor of West Virginia says he'll ask for permission from the federal government to administer fourth doses now to certain groups of people.
The Supreme Court justices will hear arguments in a special session Friday that will influence the federal government's ability to require covid vaccinations and masking. At specific issue are a CMS regulation that mandates vaccinations for most health workers and an OSHA rule that would set a vaccinate-or-test requirement for millions of private workers.
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Incoming flights from Canada, Australia, France, India, Pakistan and the Philippines are also banned under Hong Kong's "zero covid" restrictions. In Europe, the daily case rate hit a million for the first time, with France alone hitting nearly a third of a million cases Wednesday.
The case centers on whether state medical licensing officials can discipline medical personnel for performing abortions after the six-week limit. In other news, contradictory state laws aimed at halting drug overdoses, mental health care after Kentucky's tornado, National Guard suicides and more.
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
The addition is 1-bromopropane, a dry-cleaning chemical suspected to cause nerve damage and cancer. Also: algorithmic overtreatment for Black heart patients, the "Disney Stress Test", parental quality time with kids, extra food benefits in Texas and questions over end-of-life planning.
Researchers have shown RNA molecules from a pregnant person's blood could predict the dangerous condition months before symptoms appear. Separately, hedgehogs have been found to be a source of drug-resistant bacteria, rocking conventional ideas about the risky infections.
The higher risk of an adverse outcome was discovered by a study of over 1.3 million patients in Canada. Nursing homes in Massachusetts are at a "tipping point" from staff shortages, and a Modern Healthcare report warns tensions between medical employers and staff will stay high this year.
South Dakota voters will decide in November whether the state should become the 39th to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, a move that would provide coverage to 42,000 low-income residents.
A tussle between a teachers union in Chicago and Mayor Lori Lightfoot has continued, with in-person teaching vetoed by the union for the second day over covid safety rules. The battle reached the White House, with press secretary Jen Psaki telling reporters schools can open safely.
Around 1% of roughly 73,000 employees were terminated for non-compliance with a covid vaccine mandate, as the Mayo Clinic takes "all steps necessary" to keep "patients, workforce, visitors and communities safe." Separately, nurses unions sue the Biden admin over lapsing covid protections.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show all 92 ships with passengers aboard are due investigation over covid cases. Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line have already canceled some sailings as fears of the omicron covid variant rise.
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