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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tells mayors of border cities that he is looking at the date for a possible lifting of the closure that began in March 2020 as the pandemic spread. In other news, drugmaker Moderna is asking European regulators for permission to vaccinate teens and the director of the World Health Organization is calling on vaccine producers to provide more doses to international relief efforts.
A virtual health care startup is valued at $1 billion; LetsGetChecked allows customers order home-health tests and medications and receive telehealth follow-ups. And One Medical buys Iora Health and its Medicare Advantage business.
Apple makes it easier to share medical data collected by its phone and watch; a unit of Google's parent company, Alphabet, hires a a physician data expert from Duke. In other industry news, doctors question why race factors in calculations for delivering kidney treatments, emergency room visits dropped during the pandemic and more Native Americans are applying to medical schools.
But that's 1.5 percent of wheelchairs and scooters they ship. (The Washington Post article doesn't say what percentage of luggage they lose and mishandle.) Also, the possible dangers of the TikTok practice of "dry scooping" and a strange sound connected to vision problems.
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report says the hypothesis that the coronavirus escaped from a Chinese lab is plausible. Also, more evidence that covid is abating, and Boeing has doubts about an air purifier technology.
A Canadian study has found a 30% increase in the number of postpartum mothers who sought mental health treatment nine months into the pandemic. Meanwhile, parents of newborns are confused about how to handle visitors right now, and some people are using color-coded bracelets to inform others of their physical boundaries.
An estimated 10 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine are just sitting there. Other covid-related news includes a vaccine trial for children ages 5-11 and how states try other techniques to get people vaccinated, like a marijuana joint for a shot.
“High levels of vaccination coverage are the way out of this pandemic,” said Dr. Michael Ryan, emergencies chief at the World Health Organization. In India, covid patients suffering from the delta variant have experienced hearing loss, severe gastric upsets and blood clots leading to gangrene, symptoms not typically seen in covid patients.
Some disease experts are criticizing the standards used by the FDA in its accelerated review of Biogen's Alzheimer's disease treatment. News outlets also look at what that means for future drug approvals.
Expanded federal child care tax credits of up to $300 a month are available for the last half of the year. In other news, Oakland, California, experiments with a guaranteed income program, and Hawaii extends its eviction moratorium.
A report by the Committee on Oversight and Reform suggests ongoing problems with the U.S. consumer product safety system in which companies can sell such items with voluntary safety standards and called for reforms in federal safeguards.
Biogen's Aduhelm was granted approval by the Food and Drug Administration but the company will have to conduct a new, large clinical trial to confirm the treatment's benefit, and the FDA reserves the right to rescind its decision.
The wholesale price tag set by Biogen for Aduhelm exceeded Wall Street estimates. The drugmaker's CEO defended the cost as "fair," but told CNBC that it would not be raised for at least four years. News outlets report on the thorny issue of who will pay.
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Usually RSV cases tick upward in winter months, but this year there is a growing number of cases in Atlanta ahead of summer. Separately a South Georgia detention center has failed to track consent for women suffering unwanted medical procedures. Other state news comes from Texas, West Virginia, Oklahoma and California.
The decision to send supplies to Taiwan is diplomatically problematic for China. Doses sent to Mexico are destined for resort areas and places on the border. Meanwhile, the U.K. is urging for a commitment to vaccinate the whole world by the end of 2022.
In other news, Fiji is seeing a record number of covid cases, and the surge is blamed on people sharing the drink kava; India's falling case load prompts cautious unlocking; and Thailand is using locally-made AstraZeneca vaccines but supplies are limited.
The $30 billion deal will enable the medical supply maker and distributor to expand its range and international efforts. Meanwhile the Food and Drug Administration has approved the first weight-loss drug since 2014 -- Wegovy is a version of a diabetes drug.
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