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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration had threatened to withdraw control from Arizona, Utah and South Carolina over their own worker safety rules due to poor covid safety guidelines. Other news about nursing, Princeton Hospital, a former HCA CEO, and a bomb threat at Walter Reed Hospital are also reported.
“Rising temperatures are having consequences,” said one report's co-author. Axios notes the reports say that more infectious diseases spreading quickly are "inevitable" due to climate change. Meanwhile, USA Today covers heat deaths in heat waves.
Agency leaders held a webinar Wednesday to discuss how to improve health care, accountability and costs. Other news is on alternative payment models, UnitedHealth Group's Medicare Advantage payments, Iowa’s privatized Medicaid system and more.
Yesterday, Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered that all NYC municipal workers must get covid shots. The Oct. 29 deadline for first shots comes with a threat of potentially being fired. Separately, a video of unmasked NYPD officers on the subway pushing someone who asked them to mask-up goes viral.
The Hill reports Democratic lawmakers are "swiftly" cutting back on their spending plans in the wake of adjustments coming from the White House, which include new ideas on how to pay for parts of the $2 trillion scheme. Cutting $200 billion in housing aid is one suggestion.
The White House announced reaching the 200 millionth covid shot shared to boost global vax efforts. Axios reports pressure on the Biden administration to share more shots is rising. How "waning" antibodies are normal and how different zodiac signs are adopting vaccines are also in the news.
Human poisonings from ivermectin, a common cattle antiparasitic not approved for use as an anti-covid drug, rose "sharply" in August, says a report from Oregon Poison Center. Meanwhile, the Navy has identified a 15th sailor who has died after being infected with covid.
The government has already purchased enough doses for all 28 million children in this group. The doses will be shipped to pediatric and primary care offices, school and community health clinics, and pharmacies. The supplies will include smaller needles.
The new recommendations practically assure that the booster rollout will get even more complicated for Americans as they weigh whether to get a full dose of Pfizer, a half-dose of Moderna, a second dose of J&J or an mRNA shot to go with their first J&J jab. Confused yet?
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A congressional panel will recommend the president be charged with crimes against humanity over his handling of the pandemic, including allegations of intentionally letting people fall ill. Separately, surges in U.K., Russia and Turkey mean Europe was the only region to report a covid rise last week.
Ahead of Thursday's Supreme Court deadline for submitting briefs in the federal challenge to Texas' abortion law, pro-abortion rights supporters from scholars to medical groups and former prosecutors have filed suit. The AP wonders if abortion can motivate local Democratic support in Virginia.
Axios reports that J&J has acted as expected and split part of the company responsible for handling claims over whether its baby powder products harmed people into a separate company, which is now filing for bankruptcy. The Theranos trial, global medical device sales and more are also reported.
Axios and Bloomberg report on the HLTH conference, one of the first big health care professional meet-ups since the pandemic began. University of Oklahoma nursing education, a Texas nurse accused of murdering four men, age bias against seniors in health care and more are also in the news.
A team of South African researchers has found that simple breathing may be a bigger contributor to spreading tuberculosis than the traditionally accepted method of spreading by coughs — making it similar to covid in some regards. Mental health, salmonella and more are also in the news.
The Biden administration threatened to revoke authority for Arizona, South Carolina and Utah to handle their own workplace safety enforcement over refusals to adopt rules protecting health care workers from covid. Vax mandates, worker firings and more are reported in other news.
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