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The lack of uniformity in covid insurance practices across the country this year is striking, The Washington Post reports. Because of differences in health plan policies, the Post says covid patients in the same ICU units could be facing completely different financial burdens.
The coronavirus is the leading cause of death among law enforcement so far in 2021, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Meanwhile, the average U.S. daily death toll from covid over the last seven days surpassed 2,000 this weekend, The New York Times reports.
Axios reports Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, is saying Congress should take a "strategic pause" before it votes on the White House's $3.5 trillion social spending package. Politico covers other representatives' warnings that Congress may not vote in time to meet a Sept. 27 target on the companion infrastructure package.
The Department of Health and Human Services awarded $10 million to Every Body Texas, a nonprofit that administers Title X funds to Texas abortion providers. The agency announced available grants for other impacted clinics, as well as protections for doctors and patients. More fallout from the restrictive law is reported from Texas as well as other parts of the nation.
National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins and Dr. Anthony Fauci both expect that third vaccine doses will be authorized for all eligible Americans but it's unclear when that may happen.
Pfizer-BioNTech's trials involved a two-shot regimen with about a third the dosage used in covid shots for teenagers and adults. The two shots led to an anti-covid immune response just as strong as in older people, and the shots were safe, with comparable side effects to adults, according to the drugmaker.
A study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that Moderna's covid vaccine is 93% effective against hospitalization over 5 months. The other two shots authorized in the U.S. also offer strong protection -- Pfizer at 88% and Johnson & Johnson at 71%.
On Friday, a panel of vaccine advisors to the Food and Drug Administration recommended a third dose of the Pfizer shot for Americans over 65 and those who are considered high risk -- but voted against boosters for all. The FDA is expected to make its decision this week.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Opinion writers weigh in on covid, booster shots, nursing during a pandemic and more.
The AP reports on an expansion of Cuba's covid shot program to kids as young as 2. Meanwhile in Cambodia, children aged 6 to 11 began to get shots before school re-openings. But officials in Brazil want to halt vaccines for younger teens after a childhood death that's being investigated.
Each week, KHN finds longer stories for you to enjoy. This week's selections include stories on sickle cell disease, Afghan refugees, covid, ancestry and more.
News outlets report on what some have called an "absolute humanitarian crisis" at the Rikers Island Jail complex near New York City. Also: food contamination in Houston markets, recovering Louisiana hospitals, female genital mutilation, a police shooting during a mental health crisis, and more.
The AP reports on pushback over Biden administration efforts to challenge a law which made it easier for workers who fell ill at a former nuclear weapons factory to get compensation. Meanwhile, Texas officials and residents are resisting a plan to build a nuclear waste site in the state.
A study revives some older ideas about the therapeutic benefits of Mozart's music, this time as a potential aid for epilepsy sufferers. A separate study suggests the chemistry of pufferfish nerve toxin could help treat the visual impairment from amblyopia--also called lazy eye.
Around 36,000 patients may have been victims of a data breach at Austin Cancer Centers. Non-covid health visits, uninsured dentistry patients, an Intermountain/SCL merger, high-tech voice assistants in clinical care and Baltimore's health commissioner are also in the news.
Deeming it "unlawful," a watchdog within the Department of Justice moved to block a bankruptcy deal that includes protections for Purdue Pharma from future lawsuits over its role in the opioid epidemic.
House Democrats, led by Cori Bush and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have been leading the effort to improve unemployment aid, saying the system particularly impacts Black and brown communities. Separately, California is at risk of losing out on hundreds of millions of dollars of rental aid.
Meanwhile, in Oregon, 900 students and staff were quarantined after four covid cases hit one high school. In Oklahoma, reports say schools can opt into a program for free in-school covid testing, and in California, the declining number of pediatric covid cases coincided with school openings.
A federal judge tells the Biden administration that it has two weeks to halt the practice of expelling migrants with children apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border under the public health edict, known as Title 42.
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