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India recorded nearly 315,000 new covid cases today. Elsewhere around the world, Pfizer confirmed fake versions of its vaccine were illegally on sale in Mexico and Poland, the EU prepares a lawsuit against AstraZeneca and covid kills young people in Brazil.
When Disney's California parks open, about three dozen attractions at the parks will remain shut due to covid regulations, but out-of-state visitors are given the thumbs-up in new health guidelines. Elsewhere, vitamin supplements are recalled and Burning Man may mandate covid vaccines.
Meanwhile, Arkansas lawmakers expanded a similar law, and Tennessee's Senate advanced a "bathroom" bill targeting trans students in schools. Other reports from the states include marijuana laws and Medicaid.
"Navigators play a key role in helping us educate consumers about health plan options," HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement. The record-breaking $80 million amount is a sea change from the Trump administration, which slashed funding for navigators several years in a row.
Fentanyl's Schedule 1 drugs are more highly regulated and carry mandatory minimum sentencing if involved in a crime — which is an issue for some lawmakers.
A study highlights pressures on Ohio's pharmacists. Separately, as more monitoring tech comes to the operating room, surgeons highlight this "risky" move. Climate-disaster clinical care, antibiotic development and long covid are also in the news.
In other news, people who experienced "breakthrough" covid infections after being fully vaccinated appeared to suffer only mild illness.
Officials at the maximum-security prison at Fort Madison didn't say how much extra of the Pfizer vaccine the prisoners received. In other news: Dallas kicks off its first in-home vaccination program; the governors of Iowa and Pennsylvania implore residents to get vaccinated; and more.
The B.1.1.7 variant, first identified in the United Kingdom, is 45% more transmissible than the original covid strain, researchers say. And scientists say two California variants are about 20% more infectious than the original virus.
None of the potentially contaminated Johnson & Johnson shots produced at the Baltimore Emergency BioSolutions were ever distributed, but 15 million doses had to be discarded. The latest report says more may be compromised.
While marking the achievement of vaccinating 200 million within his first 100 days in office, President Joe Biden warned the job is not done. As supply begins to outpace demand, the administration is offering tax incentives to encourage businesses to make getting the shot more convenient for employees.
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Elsewhere around the world, medical ethicists in the U.K. say terminally ill people should get access to general anesthesia, and in Mexico the president is vaccinated after "waffling" about the shot.
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