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Calling it a "patriotic responsibility" for Americans to unite behind efforts to fight covid this winter, President Joe Biden announced the latest federal measures that include more international traveler testing, extending mask mandates on public transit and rapid covid tests that insurance companies are supposed to pay for.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
The New York Times looks at how health care would be reshaped by the massive reconciliation package. Also on the December congressional docket: averting a shutdown, if Democrats can.
Editorial pages weigh in on these public health matters.
Opinion writers examine these covid related issues.
Also, the European Union is mulling mandatory vaccine rules, Britain approves a covid antibody treatment from GlaxoSmithKline, South Africa's covid case rate doubled overnight, and countries seem to increasingly favor travel bans to try to stem covid outbreaks.
In other impactful news from California, some water districts will get none of their requested supplies heading into 2022 other than for critical health and safety needs. Other news is from Georgia, New York, North Carolina, Maine, Colorado and Florida.
Among the top health industry news: Amgen curtails discounts through the federal 340B program, Duke, Mayo Clinic and the University of Michigan seek artificial intelligence software that works and barriers to prescription drugs created by insurance companies.
Scientists at University of California-Riverside have been looking at the different forms of the tau protein, and its role in the brains of Alzheimer's sufferers. Among other medical innovations: an experimental drug successfully targeted genetic kidney disease.
More studies on the impacts of covid infections on health: a higher risk of death and of central nervous system complications.
The group of over 600 Facebook and Instagram accounts were linked to a China-run influencing operation. Other disinformation networks were also targeted by Meta, Facebook's parent company. Separately, a Johns Hopkins program aims to fix misinformation that influenced young people.
Census Bureau data show 37 million people live alone now, up from 33 million in 2011. Trust in scientists and science is also in the news, with global data showing it rising, possibly linked to the pandemic. Separately, Planned Parenthood patient data in California was hacked.
The Biden administration intends to extend the mask mandate for air, train and public transit travel, while it continues to press for more vaccinations. News also on HIV/AIDS.
President Joe Biden's plan to tackle covid in the winter will include a campaign to improve uptake of booster shots, and access to free at-home testing (with private insurance footing the bill). Travel restrictions, mask recommendations and more are also expected.
Good and bad news for Moderna. Its vaccines work very well, according to a new study. But the company lost a critical patent battle for the covid vaccine to Arbutus Biopharma.
Contradictory and shifting court rulings in challenges to federal and local vaccine and mask requirements leave behind a patchwork quilt of policies and bans across the U.S. Meanwhile, covid case numbers are marching back up. In Nebraska, nearly all hospitalized patients are unvaccinated.
Experts suggest omicron may have mutated in a non-human host. Yet the lack of testing and genomic sequencing of test samples hampers efforts in the United States to study the variant the fast-spreading variant.
It was "inevitable," as Dr. Anthony Fauci had said. The individual is said to be suffering mild symptoms, was vaccinated (but without a booster shot) and had traveled from South Africa. Officials across the country are upping preparations and actively looking for more cases.
Consensus among journalists who listened to the Supreme Court justices' questions in the Mississippi abortion case is clear: Roe v. Wade is doomed.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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