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The decision made on Sunday supports Gov. Greg Abbott's order banning mask mandates, after some school districts said they'd contravene it. Dallas Independent School District has said it will ignore the decision. News outlets report on masking, vaccines and mandates in schools.
News outlets report on "skyrocketing" cases of covid among children, blamed on the surging delta variant. Bloomberg reports on the potential for high MIS-C incidence in children, also. Meanwhile, a report ties being born during the pandemic with a chance of having lower IQ, for unknown reasons.
The news comes less than a week before Florida's schools reopen in Broward County, where the deaths happened. Separately, reports say Florida's surge worsens, one school board is defying Gov. Ron DeSantis' masking mandate ban, and the University of Florida reverses its plans for online school just hours after announcing it.
Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez denounced the weekend's violence, which happened as people rallied outside City Hall. Separately, an anti-vaccine mandate rally of more than 1,000 people happened at Oklahoma's State Capitol. News outlets elsewhere report on vaccine mandates and uptake.
National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins said the trend is "steeply upward" with no sign of having peaked yet and warned of a return to the pandemic's worst days. Meanwhile, the outbreak in the U.S. means it accounts for over 1 in 5 cases globally for the first time since mid-February.
Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said Sunday the U.S. could decide in the next couple weeks whether to offer covid booster shots to Americans this fall, AP reported. Health care workers and the elderly would likely be the first to receive them.
Average monthly benefits — $121 per person before the pandemic — will permanently rise by $36, The New York Times reported. At least one health expert called it "a game-changing moment."
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News outlets report on a World Health Organization effort to "depoliticize" the investigation into the origin of covid--as a WHO expert admits to previous concerns about a Chinese laboratory. In other news, Sinopharm's vaccine is 50.4% effective and Indonesia uses a ferry as a floating isolation center.
A previous spotting was of a dead insect, but this new confirmed sighting was of a live example. In other news, Texas' abortion clinics ready for shutdowns; the ACLU sues D.C. police over chemical irritant use; a Jamestown Canyon virus fatality in New Hampshire; and more.
Each week, KHN finds longer stories for you to enjoy. This week's selections include stories on caregiving, covid, diabetes, the Albanian tradition of being a "sworn virgin" and more.
An international investigation is forcing a rethink of established ideas about how metabolism declines over a lifetime -- with data supporting a stable rate between the ages of 20 and 60. Separately, a study again shows plant-based diets are the best way to avoid heart disease.
Five department heads at St. Vincent's Hospital called on Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to intervene in the strike, which has been ongoing since March, citing the action for preventing patients accessing health care. Meanwhile, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is suing to block insurer price transparency laws.
Gamma-hydroxybutyrate is tightly regulated, but the Food and Drug Administration has now approved it as a treatment for rare cases of idiopathic hypersomnia, giving it another lease of life. Meanwhile, the Drug Enforcement Agency shut down a Texas drug company over regulation violations.
The disputed provision, which had been set to last through Aug. 31, blocked all eviction proceedings if the tenants declared that they were facing a covid-related financial or health hardship, Bloomberg reported. Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented.
Thursday saw the Dallas-Forth Worth area with only 75 staffed intensive care beds for adults, but the local Hospital Council warned there were none for children. A regional chief medical officer in Tennessee also reported there were "no beds" available as covid swamped local medical systems.
The former California governor, a Republican, left nothing on the table: "You’re a schmuck for not wearing a mask. Because you are supposed to protect your fellow Americans around you. It's just that simple.” Other news about masks is from Texas, Mississippi, Utah, Nevada, Oklahoma and elsewhere.
Meanwhile, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis backpedals over a threat to withhold school superintendent pay if they enforce mask rules; lawsuits mount in Texas and Arizona over school mask mandates; and Utah officials who overturned a school mask rule are accused of having "blood on their hands."
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