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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said there's a "proliferation" of misleading information online and called for companies to solve it. On Friday, President Biden alleged Facebook was "killing" people. But Facebook refuted those remarks Saturday, saying the "facts tell a very different story to the one promoted by the administration in recent days."
A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court decision that had been in favor of the state of Florida's position on covid controls for cruise ships.
The former president issued a statement Sunday saying that President Joe Biden is "way behind schedule" and "not doing well at all." However, a new CBS News/YouGov poll found that 66% of Americans believe Biden is doing a "very good" or "somewhat good" job at managing the pandemic.
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News outlets report on covid cases among Olympic athletes, organizers, hotel staff and the general population of Tokyo--with the city hitting a six-month case rate high. The International Olympic Committee president, however, assures there's "zero" risk of covid spread from the games.
Each week, KHN finds longer stories for you to enjoy. This week's selections include stories on parenting, negligent doctors, Black women's health, the FDA, Moderna's next vaccines and more.
Opinion writers discuss the covid-19 pandemic.
Reuters reports on one fire in Oregon, the biggest among blazes across the West, that has already displaced 2,000 residents. The New York Times reports on a study saying work injuries related to heat are vastly undercounted. Massachusetts, Minnesota and Iowa are also in the news.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said fully vaccinated travelers from all nations may be welcomed from early September. Meanwhile, vaccine refusals drive a surge in Russia; Southeast Asia buckles under the delta variant; the U.K. has "scary" numbers of hospitalizations; and more.
New CDC data show a 29.4% increase in drug overdose deaths in 2020 versus 2019. Experts blame pandemic-driven loss of support systems, medical care inaccessibility and opioid availability. Meanwhile, a Northern Californian woman was arrested with enough fentanyl to kill 65,000 people.
Two reports cover a link between suffering childhood trauma and having violent tendencies later in life, as well as experiencing more pleasurable morphine highs -- which can factor into addiction tendencies. Healing eardrum punctures, mouse eggs, Gillian Anderson's braless-ness and more are also in the news.
The U.K.'s antitrust regulator levied the fine after an investigation found an "egregious" scheme to boost drug prices and delay release of lower-cost versions. In particular, generic hydrocortisone tablets suffered a 10,000% price hike. Separately, controversial drug Aduhelm is back in the news.
DaVita and its former CEO are accused of conspiring with competitors not to hire each other’s key employees. DaVita called the charges "unjust and unwarranted." A spokesman for former CEO Kent Thiry said the allegations are “false and rely on a radical legal theory about senior executive recruitment without precedent in U.S. history.”
The ad campaign, called the “Summer Sprint to Coverage,” will feature testimonial spots in English and Spanish on local cable, radio and online platforms during peak audience times including while the Olympics air, Axios reports.
Annual funding for the Department of Health and Human Services would get a 24% boost in the package approved by the House Appropriations Committee Thursday. On the Senate side, congressional reporters track the status of intertwined infrastructure and "human infrastructure" spending measures.
Axios reports on efforts to recruit celebrities to promote covid vaccines to the hesitant and unvaccinated. KHN has our own report on different creative efforts to promote shots. In Las Vegas, MGM will have a "prize laden" clinic with "special guests" in its Strip resort.
Advisers will meet July 22 to discuss “clinical considerations for additional doses in immunocompromised individuals,” the meeting’s agenda states.
Pfizer and Moderna began trials for children 12 and under in March. The agency wants four to six months of safety data for that age group. Just two months of data was required for the trials in adults. Other pediatric news is on RSV, long covid in children, lagging childhood vaccinations and more.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus admitted to reporters that a lab leak source for covid was possible, and that the push to rule out this idea was being made without enough evidence. He also urged China to provide more raw data to help investigators.
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