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Among other news reports from across the states, the ACLU is suing South Carolina's governor over a mandate to "immediately expedite" workers' return to the office, and Arkansas' state legislature enacts a gender-affirming health care ban for transgender children.
The University of Oxford has paused its small clinical trial of the AstraZeneca vaccine in children over concerns about blood clotting. Also, life expectancy has dropped in Europe.
Other health care industry news is on workers killed by covid, worn out by covid and politicized by covid.
Fibrogen used false data for its anemia pill. In other news, a lot of money is sloshing around the drug and medical device industries.
In other news, Will.i.am is launching a high-tech anti-covid mask in partnership with Honeywell; baseball reopens with dramatically different safety restrictions in different states; and YouTube Kids faces government criticism over ads and data gathering.
Problems with Emergent BioSolutions, the Johnson & Johnson contractor that botched 145 million doses of its vaccine, were known to officials of both administrations. The federal government was also funding the company. In other news, the Biden administration wants to send $9,000 for funeral expenses to every family who lost someone to covid.
Doctors at New York's Mount Sinai hospital replace a woman's trachea that had been damaged by severe asthma.
In other research news, a new study says giving HPV vaccines during pregnancy isn't dangerous, and doubts are raised about certain liver cancer treatments.
A war on covid? The U.S. Army has started limited human trials of its own covid vaccine, hoping it will combat virus variants. Elsewhere, states report expanding vaccine rollout plans, but some places encounter bumps in the process, and vaccine shopping becomes a thing.
As you might expect: crowds. But in some places, supply exceeds demand.
From the WHO to New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, officials are stating their opposition to the idea of mandating proof of covid vaccination status. Texas and Utah have gone further and moved to actually ban vaccine passports.
The study of children who developed the serious inflammatory illness included almost 1,800 cases reported to the CDC from March 2020 through mid-January.
About 1 in 8 of the patients were diagnosed for the first time with such an illness, most commonly anxiety or depression, Stat reports.
As different covid variants are reported in cases across the country, the AP says that New York, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey together reported 44% of new covid cases over the most recent seven-day period.
The White House did not say how it intends to get remaining states to move up their timelines from the earlier May 1 goal.
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