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The state's dominant insurer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, plans to raise certain plan rates by about 8%, but other insurers are looking to continue dropping their rates. Meanwhile, the ACLU has asked a judge to block Arkansas' transgender youth treatment ban.
Myanmar has detected three new covid variants for the first time. Separately, millions of Pakistanis are at risk of losing cellphone service if they refuse vaccines. In other news, the Taj Mahal reopens, and Japan is set to decide on domestic Olympic spectators.
The diagnosis too often leads to excessive police force and forced sedation, the American Medical Association contends. Lumbar surgery, Apple's health care efforts, life science companies in Boston and the new job of former FDA chief Stephen Hahn are also in the news.
In other news, a study suggests kids who eat more ultra-processed food are more likely to be overweight as adults; another study says blood sugar control among Americans has dropped; and New Orleans and Baton Rouge are hit by warnings of excessive ozone.
The policy would have threatened to withhold grant funds from community health centers if they charged low-income patients more than what they paid for the life-saving injections. Other news is on the increasing price of Medicare drugs, incentives at skilled nursing facilities, Florida's Medicaid budget and a program in Connecticut that will give "baby bonds" to new parents on Medicaid.
As a new study finds dangerous chemicals present in over half the mascaras, lipsticks and foundations sold in the U.S., Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced the No PFAS in Cosmetics Act.
Gov. Doug Ducey's executive order is aimed at students at public universities. In other news a Wisconsin bill forbids vaccine passports, San Francisco will require some workers to be vaccinated, and an appeal is filed in the Houston hospital vaccine case.
The Food and Drug Administration OKs an additional 15 million doses from the huge tranche of vaccine placed in quarantine due to possible contamination at Emergent BioSolutions' Baltimore plant. Another 10 million had been allowed last week. Meanwhile, the White House announces that 1.35 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's have been sent for use in Mexico.
According to Politico, "senior" Trump administration officials were behind the hypothesis, despite a lack of intelligence supporting it. The Washington Post covers how the government then investigated the theory, and still has no "smoking gun."
A new analysis by the National Institutes of Health finds nine possible covid-19 cases in late December 2019 -- about a month earlier than the first official confirmed infection of Jan. 21, 2020. Some experts voiced skepticism about the study though.
Meanwhile, a large study says a quarter of covid patients will have symptoms at least one month after diagnosis. Separate studies cover lingering health problems that had not been seen before covid, long covid in asymptomatic people as well as food and smell distortions.
Previous studies of monoclonal antibodies have shown that the treatments, given early in the course of the disease, can prevent patients from being hospitalized. But until now, they had not been shown to help hospitalized patients, Stat reports.
As worries grow among health officials and scientists over the delta variant, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reclassifies it as evidence mounts that the more transmissible strain could take serious hold in the U.S. Doctors urge Americans to get vaccinated now.
As New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo put it, “This is a momentous day, and we deserve it because it has been a long, long road." In California, a maskless Gov. Gavin Newsom declared, “California has turned the page. Let us all celebrate this remarkable milestone."
Throughout the pandemic, the magnitude of the loss has proven difficult to comprehend. News outlets try to put the deaths of more than 600,000 Americans in some relatable context. AP also looks at areas of the country that were hardest hit.
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