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The allegation is that national test facility GS Labs forced commercially insured customers to take unnecessary and expensive tests. Among other news, Oklahoma will soon reconcile its official covid death numbers with up-to-date data, pushing the toll up by about 1,000 victims.
Preferring to follow doctrine over the scientifically proven benefits of vaccines, Republican governors across the U.S. have been leading a charge against covid shot (and mask) mandates, Politico reports. And now their approval ratings are down. Dr. Anthony Fauci calls Texas' mandate ban "unfortunate."
The new rules apply to air, land or sea crossings. Air travelers will have to show proof of vaccination and also results of a negative test taken within three days before boarding the plane.
The rollout of covid vaccines for younger children is imminent. Meanwhile, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that "confusion" is blamed for poor uptake of booster shots among older people, and the Philadelphia Inquirer describes how officials are using senior centers to reach out about boosters.
Infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci also acknowledged that some J&J recipients might be better off receiving Pfizer or Moderna’s vaccine as their booster. "The level of antibodies that you induce in them is much higher than if you boost them with the original J&J,” he said.
Colin Powell was the first Black national security adviser, the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first Black secretary of state. As secretary of State, he was fourth in the presidential line of succession. According to a statement from his family, Colin Powell was fully vaccinated against covid.
The panel also discussed whether vaccines can be "mixed and matched" and seemed to lean toward saying yes, but no formal vote was taken.
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The World Health Organization yesterday said that its predictions for how many people died from tuberculosis in 2020 were up for the first time in a decade. Pandemic disruption was blamed. Separately, the U.S. committed to sending another 17 million J&J covid shots to the African Union.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, issued an executive order to allocate federal and state resources to tackle high levels of lead in tap water in southwestern Michigan. Separately, a coalition of federal agencies issued a hacking warning about water and wastewater systems.
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The number is expected to quadruple by 2050, according to a new study out from the American Medical Association, as reported on by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Also, a recall of 14,000 pounds of Butterball ground turkey; grocery store products claiming to boost immunity; mental health of college students; and more are reported.
The Wall Street Journal suggests the move is a play to get a settlement instead. Politico, meanwhile, reports on "confusion" around the FDA's e-cigarette approvals.
The organization said it was now facing an "emergency blood and platelet shortage," worsened as blood donor turnout reached the lowest levels of the year. Separately, New Orleans Emergency Medical Services has launched a new system to have blood in ambulances to treat traumatic injuries faster.
Sources tell multiple news outlets that President Joe Biden is considering Dr. Robert Califf to fill the top Food and Drug Administration job, but also say no final decision in the contentious search has been reached. The permanent appointment has been vacant for 10 months and Interim Commissioner Janet Woodcock's term expires in November.
In the latest legal move in the dispute over Texas' ban on most abortions, the Justice Department's efforts to suspend the law were denied in a 2-1 ruling by a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel. The case is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court.
News outlets report on the Food and Drug Administration's plans for reviewing Merck's experimental oral antiviral treatment for covid, which won't happen until Nov. 30. The Philadelphia Inquirer, meanwhile, covers questions over the "unknown" risk of DNA mutations from the drug.
The move to shift tracking data away from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was a controversial one, and was made under the Trump administration. News outlets also report on covid in children, with worries that more kids are falling ill, and some may act as "reservoirs" for variants.
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