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The Consumer Product Safety Commission aims to close a loophole that has allowed for an explosion in untested infant sleep products that conflict with federal safe sleep guidelines, The Washington Post reports. Other Biden administration news touches on OSHA, so-called Havana syndrome, HHS migrant shelters and more.
The freeze was enacted by public health officials as a way to keep people in their homes and out of crowded homeless shelters during the pandemic.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells the stories of Georgians who can't afford private insurance but don't qualify for Medicaid. Other news comes out of Alabama, Vermont and Pennsylvania. And KHN interviews the new head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Unused doses of covid vaccines stored in the U.S. will soon be heading to nations experiencing vaccine shortages as the Biden administration finalizes its plans for sharing. Meanwhile, the European Union moves away from vaccine IP waivers.
The Food and Drug Administration says it can't rule out a low-level risk of cross-contamination between the two vaccines manufactured by contractor Emergent BioSolutions. In other vaccine news from the Biden administration: the White House science adviser looks to the next pandemic's salvation and a CDC decision hamstrings investigations of breakthrough infections.
Florida's hospitalizations are at the lowest point in a year, Iowa reports fewer than 100 new cases per day, and the Navajo Nation reports no additional deaths against a broader background of falling covid numbers across the country.
Among the outside-the-box measures that are part of the White House's "month of action": Anheuser-Busch announced its "biggest beer giveaway ever" if Americans reach the goal.
Money and prizes are offered up to residents in West Virginia and Ohio who get vaccinated, while Maine ends its current program after only 15% of eligible residents claimed their reward.
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There were 9.1% more abortions in Kansas in 2020 than 2019, partly because patients from Oklahoma, Texas and elsewhere outnumbered local patients for the first time. Other news covers Florida's anti-trans law, Oklahoma's Medicaid system and more.
The bank holiday weekend may have played a part in Tuesday's data, but it's the first zero-death day in almost a year. Separately, the World Health Organization approved the Sinovac vaccine for emergency use and Japan makes vaccination progress before the Olympics.
A bipartisan bill seeks to move mental health crisis responses away from police. Meanwhile, debate about mental health continues after Naomi Osaka quit the French Open, and the Washington Football Team has hired its first full-time psychologist.
Meanwhile, among other news reports say regular childhood ailments have been kept at bay by covid hygiene protocols, one flu subtype is getting easier to vaccinate against and ticks bearing Lyme disease are found flourishing on the California coast.
Patients in Massachusetts didn't know that South Shore Anesthesia Associates was out of network until they received a bill, the Boston Globe reported. News is also on Quorum Health, QHR Health, Grant Avenue Capital, AHIP, Epic Systems Corp., CVS and Amazon Web Services.
In other news, lower demand for covid tests hits profits at Abbott; increasing hopes that new gene therapy methods will help more diseases; and new science explains how LSD interacts with the brain.
Dr. Howard Bauchner has been on administrative leave since March while the AMA investigated the origins of a podcast and related tweet that said no physicians are racist. "Although I did not write or even see the tweet, or create the podcast, as editor in chief, I am ultimately responsible for them," Bauchner said in a statement.
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