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Doctors report a flood of questions from patients about who is eligible for another covid vaccine dose and whether they "may" or "should" get one. Dr. Rochelle Walensky acknowledges that a lot of the disarray stems from early White House messaging that boosters would be available to all — only to be followed by much more limited approval by the FDA and CDC last week.
State officials are anticipating that thousands of health care workers could lose their jobs when a vaccination mandate goes into effect today. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says that the National Guard or out-of-state medical workers could be used to plug the shortages.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released two new studies that both show greater protections against covid for students and staff at schools where face coverings are required. Other covid development impacting children's health is also in the news.
The Women's Health Protection Act was approved in a 218-211 vote Friday night, with one Democrat crossing party lines. With little chance of getting past a filibuster, the bill is viewed as dead on arrival in the Senate.
Amid shaky support within its own caucus, House Democratic leaders are continuing to move forward on dual tracks with the massive social spending package and a Thursday vote on the infrastructure bill. Also in the mix is the debt limit and partial government shutdown threats.
That's the most of anywhere in the study, which shows the impact of the pandemic on the U.S., most of Europe and Chile. Life expectancy for U.S. women dipped 1.65 years. The declines were bigger for men than women in most of the 29 countries analyzed.
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The residents had been moved to a warehouse where conditions were found too squalid for safety. However, some deaths may be unrelated to the storm or conditions in the warehouse, AP reports.
The report noted that Latinos as a group have the highest percentage of people without health insurance than any other ethnicity in the United States, Axios reported.
The Department of Defense is potentially putting national security at risk and also hasn't developed strategies to mitigate disruptions, a report from the Office of the Inspector General says.
As Stat reports, many have argued that the separate racial thresholds for classifying kidney disease underestimate the extent of disease in Black patients, leaving them less likely to receive the care they need or to be placed on waitlists for transplants.
About 100 doctors and scientists issued a statement Thursday warning of possible links between the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy and developmental problems in children.
Americans' economic worries show no signs of abating as the pandemic drags on.
The pair of intertwined spending bills continues to tangle up Capitol Hill as a group of progressive Democrats say they will vote against the infrastructure bill if it comes to the floor — as scheduled on Sept. 27 — before the budget reconciliation package. And even as Democratic leaders announce a "framework" for the latter, some Democrats are not impressed.
Elsewhere in Montana, the public health officer in Blaine County is resigning because of the “constant negativity, pushback, disregard and lack of support” throughout the pandemic, AP reports.
Just weeks after the justices declined to block a Texas state law that bans the procedure after 6 weeks of pregnancy, they are again being asked to step in by abortion providers who say the restrictions are harming patients.
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