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While U.S. infections are down 50% from last month and Texas recorded zero daily deaths on Sunday, the news is not all good: Texas reported a spike in deaths a day later, and worries continue about the more infectious Indian variant which has now reached the U.S.
The conservative-majority court will hear the case next term. Mississippi's law banning most abortions after 15 weeks was blocked by lower courts, finding it in conflict with Roe v. Wade and subsequent abortion decisions.
The White House is pledging an additional 20 million doses and will include Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson shots in the mix. Previously only AstraZeneca's vaccine was announced, which is not yet approved in the U.S.
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Cyclone Tauktae has already killed six in Southern India and now threatens the western coast. The New York Times, meanwhile, reports on a thriving Indian black market for oxygen, medicines and other supplies.
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine examined thousands of heart disease patients and found that regular low-dose aspirin-taking was safe and can prevent further heart problems and strokes. Regular dose levels seem safe too, but many study participants quit taking the high doses.
In other news, fresh produce is linked to an E.coli outbreak in Washington state; Georgia has a spate of fentanyl overdoses; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will receive a bill cracking down on covid scam websites; and California lawmakers consider a bill to decriminalize psychedelic drugs.
Politico reports that funds allocated to rebuild the national stockpile and to expanding national covid testing are being diverted by the Department of Health and Human Services to its massive efforts to house a growing number of unaccompanied minors at the Southern border.
The program provides employees with physical, mental and nutritional support. Also in the news: telehealth, children's mental health, Leapfrog and parking fees for cancer patients.
The drug is a combination of local anesthetic bupivacaine and anti-inflammatory meloxicam. In other news, biomarker blood tests are speeding up drug trials, the Salt Lake Tribune covers the difficulties of pharmaceutical IP, and Stat reports the "Era of the Genome" has arrived.
The initial Phase 1/2 trial suggested the vaccine wasn’t adequately protective in older adults. But new results show that the companies' covid vaccine generates strong levels of antibodies for all adults.
Meanwhile, Delta Air Lines will mandate its workers get a covid shot. And statistics show 41% of Republicans say they do not plan to get a vaccine, but New York's Hamilton County — remote, and Republican — has one of the highest vaccine uptake rates in the U.S.
Dr. Anthony Fauci noted that the covid pandemic has highlighted how racism negatively affects health outcomes for African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans. Separately, the Indian covid variant is found in Maine, a study shows most kids with covid don't get a fever, and authorities accept covid is airborne.
Retail companies are announcing their plans for also relaxing requirements on face coverings as individual businesses must now navigate shifting state and federal guidance.
Reopened K-12 schools should require "universal and correct" use of masks, plus social distancing, the CDC says, despite newly relaxed mask-wearing rules for the vaccinated population. Dr. Anthony Fauci agrees and says masks should even be worn in the fall term by unvaccinated kids.
Neither public or political pressure played a role in the decision to relax mask guidance for fully vaccinated people, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said when answering questions about her agency's drastic change.
Both the National Nurses Union and the California Nurses Association slammed the relaxed CDC guidance, saying the protective measures helped keep health care workers safer. Other public health experts worry that the sudden appearance of normalcy will set back efforts to control virus spread.
Americans who ventured out over the weekend faced a patchwork of inconsistent rules.
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