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The new travel policy, due to be implemented soon, will apply to all passengers and workers in the federally regulated air sector, plus rail and cruise ships. Meanwhile, reports say rich nations are "dipping into" the COVAX vaccine supply set up to help developing nations fight covid.
The 7-year-old died Aug. 7, suffering from the rare condition called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis. In other news, 650,000 Georgians in the State Health Benefit Plan will see no health insurance increase next year; a rare bourbon collection is raffled for cystic fibrosis; and a Mississippi city tries to collect on $1.8 million in ambulance fees.
Meanwhile, the New York branch of the National Labor Relations Board ruled that a New York Presbyterian hospital wrongfully fired a nurse over union activity. Separately, CareMax and Anthem will build 50 value-based medical facilities, and Forbes reports on health care's richest self-made women.
The Wall Street Journal reports on how a recall of some CPAP and BiPaP machines is affecting sufferers of sleep apnea. An antiviral treatment for influenza, an alternative to Pfizer's recalled anti-smoking treatment and the future of pharma company Viatris are also in the news.
Officials are expected to announce the first-ever federal water shortage today for the Colorado River, which serves the water needs of 40 million people in Western states. News outlets report on how the severe drought in the West may affect farmers, small towns and power supplies.
In a letter Friday, CMS said it is giving states a full year after the covid-19 public health emergency ends to finish redetermining eligibility for Medicaid beneficiaries. Also, CMS is so far refraining from penalizing providers who haven't adjusted their price transparency rules, Bloomberg Law reports.
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.
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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.
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