First Edition: Sept. 20, 2021
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Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Opinion writers weigh in on covid, booster shots, nursing during a pandemic and more.
Each week, KHN finds longer stories for you to enjoy. This week's selections include stories on sickle cell disease, Afghan refugees, covid, ancestry and more.
The AP reports on an expansion of Cuba's covid shot program to kids as young as 2. Meanwhile in Cambodia, children aged 6 to 11 began to get shots before school re-openings. But officials in Brazil want to halt vaccines for younger teens after a childhood death that's being investigated.
A study revives some older ideas about the therapeutic benefits of Mozart's music, this time as a potential aid for epilepsy sufferers. A separate study suggests the chemistry of pufferfish nerve toxin could help treat the visual impairment from amblyopia--also called lazy eye.
The AP reports on pushback over Biden administration efforts to challenge a law which made it easier for workers who fell ill at a former nuclear weapons factory to get compensation. Meanwhile, Texas officials and residents are resisting a plan to build a nuclear waste site in the state.
News outlets report on what some have called an "absolute humanitarian crisis" at the Rikers Island Jail complex near New York City. Also: food contamination in Houston markets, recovering Louisiana hospitals, female genital mutilation, a police shooting during a mental health crisis, and more.
Deeming it "unlawful," a watchdog within the Department of Justice moved to block a bankruptcy deal that includes protections for Purdue Pharma from future lawsuits over its role in the opioid epidemic.
Around 36,000 patients may have been victims of a data breach at Austin Cancer Centers. Non-covid health visits, uninsured dentistry patients, an Intermountain/SCL merger, high-tech voice assistants in clinical care and Baltimore's health commissioner are also in the news.
A federal judge tells the Biden administration that it has two weeks to halt the practice of expelling migrants with children apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border under the public health edict, known as Title 42.
Meanwhile, in Oregon, 900 students and staff were quarantined after four covid cases hit one high school. In Oklahoma, reports say schools can opt into a program for free in-school covid testing, and in California, the declining number of pediatric covid cases coincided with school openings.
House Democrats, led by Cori Bush and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have been leading the effort to improve unemployment aid, saying the system particularly impacts Black and brown communities. Separately, California is at risk of losing out on hundreds of millions of dollars of rental aid.
Webster's Dictionary defines "cult" as "great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement or work."
As the federal government seeks to even out distribution of monoclonal antibody treatments for covid, allotments to some states, like Florida, will be cut. Other states are reporting imminent shortages under the federal shift.
Meanwhile, a poll shows that the number of vaccine-hesitant Kentuckians has fallen since March. News outlets also cover efforts to reach the unvaccinated, fake covid vaccine cards, and evidence proving no link between covid vaccines and risk of damaging fertility.
Who needs a third shot of Pfizer's covid vaccine was debated by the influential Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee during today's open session. While the FDA does not have to follow the panel's recommendations, the meeting is expected to largely shape future American booster policy.
The 1918 flu pandemic killed 675,000 people. The U.S. is on pace to reach that many covid deaths by early next week, according to The Washington Post.
ProPublica covers the terrifying situation that happened in a crowded Florida emergency room. Meanwhile, a Texas children's hospital is postponing all elective surgeries due to a covid surge, Oregon hospitals delay cancer care, and other facilities report being overwhelmed due to covid.
Editorial writers delve into these public health topics.
The Justice Department's motion for the restrictive law to be temporarily suspended while the case is litigated will be heard as scheduled on Oct. 1, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman decided.
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