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The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports the deaths and hospitalizations came as people without power after Hurricane Ida turned to portable generators. Separately, reports say several local nursing home evacuees died after being relocated due to the storm.
The World Health Organization report notes the change is due to aging populations. Kidney patient palliative care, rape's impact on memory, pediatric brain cancer, air quality alerts in the Bay area and other mental health matters are also in the news.
Stat reports that although the Food and Drug Administration has just three days to decide which e-cigarette products can stay on sale, it has only reviewed a portion of the makers' applications it's gathered. Separately, a study identified unique genes in lung cancers in people who've never smoked.
Axios reports on how the upticks in covid may boost levels of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by front-line health workers during the pandemic. Separate reports cover struggles to find nursing staff in rural areas of the country and a dip in health care employment numbers during August.
Axios notes that it's not just Florida and Texas that are struggling when it comes to this form of covid prevention. Meanwhile, Utah's governor is reportedly walking back from comments he made about "extreme maskers" last week.
Politico covers covid prevention efforts at institutions like Quinnipiac University and Rutgers University, which now include fines and threats to disconnect email access for the unvaxxed. Separately, news outlets report on the impact the pandemic is having on California Gov. Gavin Newsom's recall.
Emphasizing that the original goal of the covid vaccine was to protect against severe forms of the disease is key to getting more shots in arms, public health officials say. News outlets also report on new ways that the vaccine could reach more people.
The Biden administration wants more dosage data from Moderna before it authorizes a third shot.
The family of the ailing man said they will not appeal the decision because he has already received 13 days of doses and will soon be taken off a ventilator.
“I don’t care what this judge says,” one of their attorneys said. “We are believers he’s going to survive because of ivermectin.”
Daily infections are more than four times what they were during Labor Day weekend 2020, when the United States didn't have a covid vaccine. Meanwhile, the mu variant, also known as B.1.621, has been detected in Los Angeles County.
The Biden administration and federal lawmakers gamble that hiring will bolster Americans who have been unemployed longer than 6 months and the self-employed or gig workers, as jobless benefits for both groups ended yesterday.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said his agency will enforce a federal law that prohibits threatening or physically preventing a person from seeking an abortion. He did not specify what other measures the Justice Department is considering in response to the Supreme Court allowing Texas' "heartbeat" law to stand.
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Clark County teachers learned their health insurance trust has no money to cover claims made before July. In other news, Washington state kills its first "murder hornet" nest; Florida hasn't spent $820 million to benefit low-income children; pushback on San Francisco's homeless plan; and more.
The country had earlier suspended use of 1.63 million doses of the Moderna vaccine that were bottled by Spanish pharma company Rovi. Meanwhile, Pfizer and BioNTech made a new deal to make covid shots for Latin America. Vaccine inequality and Chinese vaccines are also in the news.
Each week, KHN finds longer stories for you to enjoy. This week's selections include stories on abortion, ADHD, horseshoe crabs, hot dogs and more.
2020's all-time overdose death peak in New Mexico included a nearly 129% year-on-year growth in fentanyl-related deaths. Meanwhile, California shelved a bill that had proposed decriminalizing some psychedelic drugs. Philadelphia's injection site and the Sackler family are also in the news.
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