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Just two days after a woman sued Aetna, alleging LGBTQ people had to pay tens of thousands for infertility treatment when heterosexual people didn't, the company said it will change its policy. DirectTrust, Atropos Health, Banner Health and more are also in the news.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 16 states had high obesity rates of over 35% in 2020 versus nine states in 2018. Racial disparities in maternal health care, appendectomy complications in Black children, mental illness, nutrition aid and more are also in the news.
Meanwhile, a Pew Research Center report shows most Americans believe that the covid pandemic threat is still serious and that the worst is yet to come. News outlets report infection surges, and the subsequent impact on health care services, across the country.
Fourteen Texas schoolchildren with disabilities have challenged Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's ban on mask mandates alleging discrimination. Separately, a federal judge chose not to block Florida's mask mandate ban for schools — a case also brought by parents of children with disabilities.
As The Washington Post reports, the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, which unanimously passed the U.S. Senate last month, would provide grant funding for suicide-prevention and peer-support mental health care programs at health care facilities and more.
Plans from the Biden administration to allow third doses of the Pfizer covid vaccine, targeted to start next week, hinge on FDA approval. But after analyzing data submitted by Pfizer, the agency's scientists are voicing skepticism about that timing. News outlets report on the booster debate.
The White House has indicated that when it revamps the current pandemic travel restrictions, it may include a requirement that international visitors have had covid vaccinations. A former Department of Transportation chief is also urging the Biden administration toward similar strict moves.
Southern and central regions of the U.S. are leading the decline in covid vaccination rates, reversing a positive trend seen a month ago and ahead of the impact of the president's new vaccine mandates. Meanwhile, Southwest Airlines is rewarding vaccinated workers with two days of bonus pay.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says clinical trial data on how well his company's covid vaccine works in 6-month to 5-year-old children could be released as early as the end of October. For children aged 5 to 11, emergency authorization could come sooner.
An Oct. 1 hearing has been scheduled for a federal judge to hear a request by U.S. attorneys to temporarily block the restrictive law. News outlets report on other fallouts as well how the abortion fight is playing out in other states.
An Urban Institute report estimates that 90% of the people who qualified for Medicaid coverage during the covid crisis could be dropped once the public health emergency ends.
With three moderate Democrats joining Republican opposition, the drug pricing provision was not approved in the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s markup. Though the measure to allow Medicare to broadly negotiate prescription prices later passed another committee, the day's events heightened concerns over whether it can pass the full House.
About 2.8 million people signed up for Obamacare during the six-month special enrollment period that President Joe Biden ordered to help Americans during the pandemic, according to figures his administration released Wednesday.
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A study says recent vaping or e-cigarette use was linked to an increased risk of eating disorders. And in Alaska, the third and fourth known cases of Alaskapox have been reported. Another report says two new human West Nile virus cases have been found in Massachusetts.
A study emphasizes risks of future pandemics from hundreds of thousands of people infected yearly by coronaviruses from animals. Meanwhile, the U.K. government has set out its winter covid plan, including boosters for the over 50s, and Mexico finishes a three month border area vaccine push.
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