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Matt Hancock was seen kissing an aide in his office in a leaked video, breaking social distancing rules he'd imposed on Britain. His replacement is reportedly keen to end the country's covid restrictions. Separately, reports say 2 million English people likely had long covid.
A new law covers obesity surgery for state workers, including teachers and retirees. In other news, South Carolina offers free HIV and STD tests; the CDC gives Maine $7 million to prepare for future pandemics and the state's budget includes $300 covid relief payouts.
Meanwhile, on a Royal Caribbean International cruise in the Bahamas, two young passengers have tested positive for covid. The TSA has also reported the highest number of travelers passing though its screening processes since March 7, 2020.
About 23% of public health care workers said they'd been targeted because of their work since the pandemic began. In other news, a new Arizona State University program is trying to attract new students to tackle a nursing shortage that's been felt particularly in rural areas.
Stat reports that both Biogen, makers of Aduhelm, and the Food and Drug Administration are to be examined. Meanwhile, Axios reports on Aduhelm's price impact on efforts to lower prescription costs and outlines its potential impact on medical standards and budgets.
The drugmaker will permanently end manufacturing and sales of opioids across the U.S. It will also pay $230 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it helped fuel the opioid crisis. Syringe exchanges, medical marijuana rules and harm reduction for drug users are also in the news.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services alerted both states on Friday that the agency is rescinding previous approval by the Trump administration to add work or job training rules for some Medicaid beneficiaries. In related news, Georgia is also delaying its plans to institute such requirements.
Noting that vaccines alone aren't enough to stop community transmission of all variants of covid, the World Health Organization stressed the importance of sticking with masks. Separately, senators are pressing the CDC and TSA on when they'll update masking rules.
In other news, elective surgeries are being delayed as the after-effects of covid have an impact on patients; questions are asked of a probe into covid deaths at a Massachusetts veterans home; and Utah sees a spike in covid cases and deaths.
As delta-driven cases quickly rise across the globe -- including pockets of the U.S. -- alarmed public health experts weigh in on the fallout for vaccine boosters, infection rates and renewed restrictions. The common message of them all: your best shot at staying safe is to get vaccinated now.
Many are stuck in a tug of war between one parent who says yes and the other who says no. Increasingly, adolescents are seeking ways to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent.
Some public health officials and politicians are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to step up their review, arguing that it would help some hesitant Americans to get vaccinated.
Covid boosters might not be needed after all — as long as the virus and its variants do not evolve much beyond their current forms, which is not guaranteed.
Democratic Sens. Chris Murphy and Chris Van Hollen is calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to help Americans facing aggressive medical debt collection by hospitals. Separately, news outlets report on a charity's big buy of medical debt, hospital tactics and more.
After a weekend of negotiations, the White House and senators say that the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal is back on track when the Biden administration backed off comments linking the bill to a larger spending package that would include more health care measures.
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The new Gender Recognition Act also lets people select "parent" as a non-binary gender option on birth certificates. Covid sanitation protocols, air pollution and cancer in Louisiana, syphilis in Florida and a surge in respiratory syncytial virus are also in the news.
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