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The passport has an "X" for its gender section, indicating the passport-bearer does not identify their gender in line with binary male/female types. Fast food from Domino's, McDonald's and other outlets has been shown to contain plastic phthalate contaminants, which have been linked to health issues.
News outlets cover fresh moves in the legal battle over Texas' strict abortion law, including warnings that the model the state used to make the law work could spread to other states, and threaten other constitutional rights too. Abortion news also comes from Oregon and Ohio.
State Supreme Court Judge Lizette Colon denied a request from New York City's largest police union to block Mayor Bill de Blasio's mandate that all municipal workers get at least one covid shot by Monday. Meanwhile, the head of the city's firefighter union said members should defy the mandate.
Meanwhile, the White House indicated it might be more flexible in enforcing the requirements for federal workers. In other news, New Orleans lifts its requirement for wearing masks in public spaces.
After meeting with House Democrats on Thursday morning, President Joe Biden is expected to outline a new framework for the social spending bill. Whether health measures like paid family leave and Medicare expansion will make the cut — and if progressives can support the plan drastically scaled back to satisfy two Senate moderates — is still a big unknown.
News outlets cover states' preparations for the next stage of combatting covid — shots for children ages 5 to 11 — but a new survey shows that a majority of parents are reluctant to give their children the vaccine, at least at first. Dr. Anthony Fauci is quoted as saying he'd give kids shots "in a second."
Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added mental illnesses to the list of health conditions that can put a person at risk for developing severe covid. That classification makes millions of Americans eligible to get a booster shot, under federal guidelines.
Through January 2021, at least 59,000 workers were infected with covid and 269 workers died at Tyson Foods, JBS USA, Cargill, National Beef and Smithfield Foods. Those figures are three times higher than previously thought.
Results from a clinical trial in Brazil indicate that fluvoxamine — a low-cost antidepressant that is commonly available in many countries — reduces the chances of hospitalization in patients with covid-19.
The Food and Drug Administration finalized new regulations that include "black box" warnings on implant packaging and that plastic surgeons must run patients through a checklist of possible complications, including scarring, pain, rupture and a rare form of cancer.
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BioNTech and Pfizer are responsible for one of the leading covid vaccines, based on mRNA technology, and this deal will see vaccines using the tech made in Africa. Meanwhile, Moderna has pledged up to 110 million doses of its vaccine to help the continent vaccinate people against covid.
The drugmaker said it will restructure its pharmacy-benefits management business following claims by several states it had inflated drug costs and cost taxpayers money. Texas' $290 million opioid settlement and Rafael Pharma's pancreatic cancer trial are also in the news.
Read about the biggest pharmaceutical developments and pricing stories from the past week in KHN's Prescription Drug Watch roundup.
In Wisconsin, the Republican-controlled Assembly will send a package of anti-abortion bills to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who is expected to veto them. In Illinois, the Senate voted to repeal a 1995 law that had required parents be notified when minors were seeking an abortion.
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