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Even so, reaching holdouts — especially teens — has become tougher and tougher. In other news, a new vaccine patch developed at UNC Chapel Hill could change everything about how vaccines are administered, ABC11 reports.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released two new studies that both show greater protections against covid for students and staff at schools where face coverings are required. Other covid development impacting children's health is also in the news.
The Women's Health Protection Act was approved in a 218-211 vote Friday night, with one Democrat crossing party lines. With little chance of getting past a filibuster, the bill is viewed as dead on arrival in the Senate.
State officials are anticipating that thousands of health care workers could lose their jobs when a vaccination mandate goes into effect today. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says that the National Guard or out-of-state medical workers could be used to plug the shortages.
That's the most of anywhere in the study, which shows the impact of the pandemic on the U.S., most of Europe and Chile. Life expectancy for U.S. women dipped 1.65 years. The declines were bigger for men than women in most of the 29 countries analyzed.
Amid shaky support within its own caucus, House Democratic leaders are continuing to move forward on dual tracks with the massive social spending package and a Thursday vote on the infrastructure bill. Also in the mix is the debt limit and partial government shutdown threats.
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The residents had been moved to a warehouse where conditions were found too squalid for safety. However, some deaths may be unrelated to the storm or conditions in the warehouse, AP reports.
As Stat reports, many have argued that the separate racial thresholds for classifying kidney disease underestimate the extent of disease in Black patients, leaving them less likely to receive the care they need or to be placed on waitlists for transplants.
The Department of Defense is potentially putting national security at risk and also hasn't developed strategies to mitigate disruptions, a report from the Office of the Inspector General says.
The report noted that Latinos as a group have the highest percentage of people without health insurance than any other ethnicity in the United States, Axios reported.
The pair of intertwined spending bills continues to tangle up Capitol Hill as a group of progressive Democrats say they will vote against the infrastructure bill if it comes to the floor — as scheduled on Sept. 27 — before the budget reconciliation package. And even as Democratic leaders announce a "framework" for the latter, some Democrats are not impressed.
Americans' economic worries show no signs of abating as the pandemic drags on.
About 100 doctors and scientists issued a statement Thursday warning of possible links between the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy and developmental problems in children.
Communications obtained by a House committee, provide a window into White House priorities ahead of last November's election, as well as in the months following. Separately, a survey outlines how pandemic views were shaped by the Trump administration's early-days messaging.
Just weeks after the justices declined to block a Texas state law that bans the procedure after 6 weeks of pregnancy, they are again being asked to step in by abortion providers who say the restrictions are harming patients.
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