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Pfizer claims its covid vaccine made with BioNTech is 100% effective for children as young as 12. Pfizer also said it will begin testing a freeze-dried version of its vaccine. In other vaccine news, Germany restricts the use of AstraZeneca's covid vaccine.
As 26 states report an increase in covid numbers, the data suggests that the age of new covid patients is skewing lower. And some doctors report that many new patients are less sick. Meanwhile, worries deepen that covid variants may run rampant, and Florida's fatality numbers may have been undercounted.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Opinion writers weigh in on these covid and vaccine issues.
Editorial writers tackle herd immunity, Texas Medicaid and mental health inequity.
A judge rules that New York state must offer covid vaccines to its prisoners. In other news from across the country, Arizona's Senate lifts its mask mandate and federal investigators flag payments to a California clinic that received $81 million under a relief program.
Countries around the world are seeing significant increases in coronavirus cases, even as vaccine rollouts begin to take effect and some nations, like the UK, begin to unlock. Meanwhile a new variant emerging in India causes worries.
Reports in Modern Healthcare highlight how mental health services for children have been impacted by the pandemic. Meanwhile a new analysis of federal data shows that adolescents may be more likely than adults to suffer addiction to drugs, including prescription ones.
Meanwhile dialysis centers are touted as a solution for covid vaccine race inequalities, and racial disparities have also been linked to higher maternal deaths and postpartum mood disorders during the pandemic.
Hospitals are reaching out to potential patients, especially among disadvantaged groups, via vaccines. Also, hospital recertification surveys begin again, health workers look back and malpractice premiums peak.
Arkansas is positioned to become the first state to prohibit doctors from providing treatments -- such as puberty blockers, hormone therapies and transition-related surgeries -- to transgender children. The bill next goes to Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
The 106 injury claims for vaccines, hydroxychloroquine and other COVID-19 treatments remained under medical review as of March 15. In other covid research news, pre-symptomatic covid cases are linked to virus spreading, an experimental drug from Humanigen helped keep patients off ventilators, and a decades-old antidepressant may hold covid treatment promise.
The conservative-majority court will consider a request by the Kentucky Attorney General to be allowed to intervene in a court case that knocked down a Kentucky abortion law -- which would ban a surgical procedure commonly used after the 15th week of pregnancy -- after the governor declined to do so.
Drug pricing reforms in Congress will be a tempting income source to pay for Democrats' extensive wish list of spending projects. Lawmakers also urge an investigation of insulin price hikes.
This time it's Canada, which has halted use of the vaccine for people under the age of 55 because of possible side effects reported in Europe. Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson will supply 400 million doses of its vaccine to the African Union.
New studies show covid vaccine hesitancy is broadly dropping across the U.S., but a report in USA Today highlights how social media misinformation may be increasing mistrust among Spanish-speakers in the U.S.
A new U.S. study shows that when covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are used in real-world applications -- when given to 4,000 healthcare workers, other essential workers -- they are 90% effective at preventing serious covid infections.
Official signatures from the U.S. and China were absent from a letter calling for future pandemic planning published in newspapers around the world. Meanwhile, worries deepen that the WHO's report on the coronavirus' source is inconclusive.
Messaging from the White House suggests that there is no federal mandate for rolling out covid vaccine passport systems, leaving the matter to the private sector. Other reports highlight the potential scam issues such passports may bring.
President Joe Biden urged states to maintain or reinstate mask mandates and for Americans to remain cautious: "This is deadly serious." At a briefing earlier in the day, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said she is "scared" over the direction the covid case numbers are taking in the U.S.
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