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Separately, a shortage in nurses in Louisiana has prompted one university to offer a tuition-free nursing program. Other reports cover providers' primary care challenges, fewer routine pediatric cases, poor pay for home care workers and more.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission stated that U.S. companies can mandate covid vaccines for employees and incentivize the vaccinations too. Separate reports note Houston Methodist Hospital employees are suing over compulsory vaccines.
Also, the CDC announces guidelines for children at summer camps and a roundup of how various states are doing on getting vaccines to its citizens.
The current series of complex numbers and letters makes it hard to keep B.1.351 straight from B.1.671.2. So the World Health Organization is set to unveil a new naming convention that uses the Greek alphabet instead. Experts also hope that the change will alleviate location stigmas associated with virus variants.
Also, in Texas, the state legislature was unable to curtail the governor's powers to fight an epidemic.
After travel spiked, crowds gathered at Memorial Day weekend events across the nation, including at Arlington National Cemetery where President Joe Biden honored fallen soldiers and asked Americans to demonstrate more empathy toward each other.
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Around the anniversary of George Floyd's death, news outlets dive into the intersection of health, justice and racism. Covid's impact on women's health is also examined, as are breakthrough infections, the individual mandate, inconvenient science and the lonely pandemic pups.
Among other news, New York City plans to tackle rising homelessness, Connecticut moves to boost schools' mental health care, Planned Parenthood expands mental health care in Florida, and fraud charges related to covid scams are reported across the country.
Despite the eagerness of many people to hit the road again -- and the need in many places for those tourist dollars -- covid restrictions, vaccination requirements and other pandemic details are causing confusion and some hesitancy. News reports also examine China's vaccination efforts, the situation in India and controversy in Thailand about vaccines.
Nearly three quarters of the people who recover from covid have persistent problems. The most common symptoms are shortness of breath and fatigue, according to a literature review published by JAMA. Another study says heart inflammation from covid is rare among athletes tested.
Connecticut moves forward with legislation that forces nursing homes to be ready for another pandemic. Yet under California regulations, nursing home operators can continue running facilities even after they’ve been denied a state license.
The Oregon State Hospital is seeking help from the National Guard. In other industry news, medical schools say they are working harder to add anti-racism training.
And Oklahoma's governor lets a bill that puts restrictions on his plan to privatize Medicaid become law without his signature.
The federal government launched a criminal investigation of Eli Lilly for manufacturing irregularities, according to Reuters. In other pharma news, the Biden administration won't end the Unapproved Drug Initiative and Elizabeth Holmes' lawyers claim publicity will deny her a fair trial. (They cited 3,755 examples of negative personal news and 2,862 examples of negative business news of defunct Theranos.)
Many health systems expect that the wave of positive publicity from their work during the pandemic may help them as they renegotiate contracts with insurers and seek to make back some of the money they lost from canceled elective procedures. But experts point out that many of these hospitals did not lose as much money as anticipated.
In a series of ads, Democrats complain that Republican lawmakers are refuse to support legislation to cap prescription drug prices. But the bills are also controversial among Democrats. The majority party is also having trouble coming up with ways to end long-standing GOP measures that limit federal funding on abortions and gun research.
Despite the good news, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts that up to 606,000 people may have died from covid by June 19. President Joe Biden is set to praise progress against the disease in a pre-Memorial Day appearance.
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