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Louisiana's governor indicated he will not back bills limiting transgender athletes or restrict trans minors seeking medical treatment. But Oklahoma's House advanced a similar bill, while Texan lawmakers are pressured by big business to not make the same moves.
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The Senate may pass an anti-Asian hate crime bill this week. The AP reports on how the covid pandemic and anti-Asian violence impacts schooling, and how Los Angeles' older Korean-American residents experience fear now.
More news is also reported on delayed health care and puberty body changes during the pandemic, as well as marijuana laws, driving safety and MRSA risk from dogs.
The amount of investment flowing into digital health companies doubled from 2020 to $7.2 billion in the first quarter of this year. Women's digital health startups were a major recipient. In other industry news, University of Virginia Health System, which for years has sued thousands of patients for unpaid bills, will cancel a massive backlog of court judgments and liens.
The long-anticipated trial of four drugmakers in California has begun; a judge may soon indicate how much it will cost the four companies involved to resolve their liability for the opioid crisis.
Federal health officials say Friday’s decision to rescind the state’s waiver is part of an effort to push Texas towards expanding the program, The Washington Post said.
As part of its review of a possible ban on menthol cigarettes, the White House is also considering a new rule that would force tobacco companies to cut nicotine back to levels that are no longer addictive, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The Biden administration has been in talks with companies and lobbyists about ways to improve the nation's emergency stockpile, Stat reports. And millions in relief aid funds are being released to help underserved communities get needed equipment and supplies to continue the covid fight. The federal government's flawed early pandemic response is also in the news.
The CDC is looking into a few more reactions to the Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine, while the FDA halts production at an East Baltimore plant that earlier botched millions of vaccine doses. And the European Medicines Agency is preparing its report on the vaccine.
Detroit and Houston are two examples where vaccine supplies have met demand, and walk-up covid vaccine sites are opening up to encourage more uptake. Separately, the AP reports Arizona's governor has ordered a statewide vaccine passport ban.
The CDC reported a seven-day average covid case rate up 1% from the previous average figure, with the U.S. total now over 400,000 new cases per day. Some places, such as Florida, report better news though with hospitalizations for seniors falling fast.
Yale has joined the ever-lengthening list of colleges that will require students get covid vaccines before fall terms. Meanwhile, Connecticut's lawmakers act to remove a religious exemption rule that could impact mandatory vaccination efforts.
Warning of an "unprecedented risk to travelers" due to covid infections, the federal government expanded its travel guidance to now cover about 80% of the world.
Abbott Laboratories has shipped its BinaxNOW covid test kit to retail chains including Walgreens, Walmart and CVS. And in other covid testing news: Asian small-clawed otters in Georgia test positive for covid.
The chief of the CDC's Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch said "putting on a show" to clean and disinfect "may be used to give people a sense of security that they are being protected from the virus." In other covid research news, a new covid treatment shows promise — in hamsters.
All states have met President Joe Biden's revised goal to open access to the covid vaccines for any adult by April 19.
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