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Bloomberg and CNBC report on predictions for the U.S. covid surge, with cautious optimism about the peak in delta covid cases. But deaths may soon climb above 1,000 per day. Separately, reports say preventable covid hospitalizations have already cost $2.3 billion just for June and July.
News outlets report thousands of schoolchildren tested positive in Georgia, Indianapolis and New Orleans, and Fox reports federal data show only one third of 12- to 15-year-olds are fully vaccinated. A study reported by CIDRAP, however, shows three in four 14- to 24-year-olds would consider a shot.
In a letter Friday, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, pleaded with Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, to issue a mask mandate for the state, which is buckling under a surge in covid cases. In Kentucky, Florida and Utah, Republican leaders continue their march to prevent mask mandates.
New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio said all Department of Education employees must get at least one shot by Sept. 27. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, set an Oct. 18 date for all state workers and teachers to get vaccinated, but staff can opt for weekly testing instead.
News outlets offer a glimpse on how corporate giants settle on strange names for drugs. How do such names get picked? Meanwhile, Twitter users stay true to their own brand, greeting Comirnaty with mockery.
The exact deadline for receiving a shot is still being worked out. In a memo this month, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he’d seek the president’s approval to make the vaccine mandatory no later than mid-September or immediately upon FDA licensure, “whichever comes first.”
The president ratcheted up the pressure on companies to enact vaccination mandates. "If you're a business leader, a nonprofit leader, a state or local leader, who has been waiting for full FDA approval to require vaccinations, I call on you now to do that. Require it," he said.
Since it was first authorized for emergency use in December, Pfizer and BioNTech's shot has been administered to hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Its full approval by the FDA comes with the hope that it will encourage vaccine-hesitant Americans to finally get the jab.
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In other news, Latin American nations are offering boosters; the U.K. has launched a surveillance program to measure antibodies in people with covid; Lebanese hospitals have run out of everything; India approves the world's first DNA-based coronavirus vaccine; and more.
The ruling on Saturday overrode an earlier decision that had blocked Republican-backed legislation targeting Gov. Andy Beshear, and now lawmakers can move on his anti-covid restrictions. Tampa, Houston, Nebraska, Baltimore, Maryland are also in the news.
It's still poorly understood how SARS-CoV-2 attacks our bodies, and its effects on people vary widely. As Stat reports, a few lucky people seem to have hit the "biological lottery" with genes that are resistant to the virus no matter how much they are exposed to it.
The New York Times reports on why the health industry has been reluctant to comply with price transparency rules — including hospitals charging wildly different rates for similar procedures and insurers negotiating bad deals. Illumina, Google, SENS, Penn Medicine and more are also in the news.
Axios reports around 11% of American adults were uninsured in April 2021, similar to rates measured in March 2019 — despite layoffs, business closures and other pandemic changes. Health effects of climate change, maternal health, suicide risk levels and more are also in the news.
Data from a trial of an anti-covid therapy from AstraZeneca showed it reduced risk of developing symptomatic covid by up to 77%, Fox News says. The Washington Post reports on other monoclonal antibody treatments. Other reports highlight a push against treating covid with ivermectin.
A group of centrist Democrats are threatening to upend House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's roadmap for advancing the $1 trillion infrastructure package and $3.5 trillion budget plan.
Misinformation is "happening largely, in part, aided and abetted by social media platforms," Dr. Vivek Murthy said Sunday. Facebook's most-viewed article in 2021 hinted that a covid vaccine was involved in a doctor's death, but Facebook withheld a report revealing this, The New York Times reported.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says federal money can't be blocked to school districts that opt for a mask mandate in states where a governor is pressuring against such moves.
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