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Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bill Cassidy want Congress to look at how pricey Aduhelm will impact the Medicare program. Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration, which recently approved the controversial drug, has been without a permanent commissioner for six months.
The court ruling essentially upholds Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Parson's decision last month not to expand Medicaid, despite a voter-approved ballot measure.
A BBC investigation provides fresh details of some of the unsanitary and treacherous conditions -- including alleged sexual abuse, covid outbreaks and lice -- for over 2,000 unaccompanied minors living at a Fort Bliss military base tent camp run by the Department of Health and Human Services. Separately, CBS News reports on the mental toll for those youngsters, including suicide risks.
Hospitals face a June 30 deadline to give back any unused Provider Relief Fund grants received more than a year prior. In other Biden administration news, next moves are debated on a new health agency and ways to fix the Affordable Care Act.
The White House aims to reduce gun violence through revoking licenses to sell guns through loopholes. The president called gun violence an "epidemic" throughout the country and reiterated the cyclical nature of violence with more crime in the summer annually.
Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there is not enough data currently to support a general recommendation for booster shots. Separately, a study notes that a third covid shot may offer "hope" to immunocompromised patients.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was asked about Texas' vaccine passport ban, and said the federal government should encourage their use. Separately, San Francisco may be the first U.S. city to mandate covid vaccines for all government employees.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 323 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis have been verified in people who received the Pfizer or Moderna covid vaccine. No deaths have been associated. Though it's an "extremely rare side effect," the Food and Drug Administration is adding a warning for teens and young adults to vaccine fact sheets.
The eviction moratorium was set to expire June 30, and though no final decision has been made, federal officials are said to be ready to add another 30 days. Meanwhile, reports say people most at risk of eviction are those least likely to be vaccinated against covid.
The new analysis, released Tuesday, bolsters claims that a variety of coronaviruses may have been circulating in Wuhan, China, before the initial outbreaks linked to animal and seafood markets in December 2019, The New York Times says.
The state has become the nation's latest cautionary tale for the unvaccinated. Meanwhile, Europe and Australia make an urgent call for more people to get vaccinated in order to squelch the variant.
Largely due to the covid pandemic, the nation's life expectancy plummeted between 2018 and 2020 -- the largest decline since 1943, when U.S. troops were dying in World War II -- according to a new study. The alarming drop is even worse for Black and Hispanic Americans.
Antibody testing on undiagnosed adults suggests that there may have been five times more cases than officially reported.
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The new variant is confusingly dubbed "delta plus" locally, and nearly two dozen cases have been identified so far. Meanwhile, New Zealanders worry over an infected Australian visitor; pressure builds to open Canada's border; and a case of H3N2v flu is found.
The 1 million covid shots per day target was set by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and was reached June 14. Meanwhile, Japan has banned alcohol at Olympic venues, Ugandan team members test positive, and a weightlifter is set to be the first openly trans Olympian.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will recommend to President Joe Biden that the cases be handled by independent military lawyers instead of the chain of command. The seismic change requires amending the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which no other defense chief has been willing to do.
The funding is intended to help state-based marketplaces comply with federal requirements and to speed up insurance signups. In Medicaid news, states are expected to soon review new enrollments and Missouri's governor schedules a special session on a proposed tax to fund Medicaid.
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