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President Joe Biden is expected to sign a new measure to ensure all veterans, their spouses and caregivers will be eligible to get covid vaccines as soon as availability allows. Elsewhere, California, Maryland and Tennessee are about to dramatically expand vaccine eligibility.
Amid debates whether pregnant women should get covid vaccines and concerns that health care workers aren't being prioritized for doses, the CDC confirms 16.7% of U.S. adults are now fully vaccinated against the virus.
The covid pandemic has forced another White House crackdown — this time canceling the traditional Easter Egg Roll, hosted by the first lady. In other news, five White House staffers have been fired for past drug use, and Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Florida today to promote the covid stimulus plan.
Under sequestration, the recent stimulus bill would trigger budget reductions to Medicare as well as other social safety net programs.
When attending school in person, the CDC now says students need only keep 3 feet apart for safe covid distance. But the new rules apply only under certain circumstances, including being in an area with low community transmission.
Emergency curfews are also in place as the South Florida city tries to control unruly crowds refusing to follow covid precautions. Over the weekend, SWAT teams were employed, who used pepper balls and arrested over 1,000 people.
While highly contagious variants spread, more Americans travel and states loosen restrictions, there is hope that past infections and vaccinations can tamp down a fourth surge in the U.S.
And it provides 100% protection against severe illness and hospitalization, according to new U.S.-based testing of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford. The results are an important step toward U.S. authorization of a fourth jab.
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Opinion writers tackle these topics, dementia care and Florence Nightingale.
Opinion writers weigh in on vaccines and the pandemic lockdown.
Each week, KHN finds longer stories for you to sit back and enjoy. This week's selections include stories on covid, pregnancy and the ethical problems related to Nazi anatomical drawings. Also, renowned sleep researcher Rosalind D. Cartwright, 98, has died.
Reports of liver problems have caused withdrawal of an "alkalized water" product for sale in Nevada. Elsewhere, concerns swirl that a popular flea collar has killed nearly 1,700 pets, and a study suggests high-speed public hand dryers may spread diseases.
Rick Snyder, a Republican who served until 2019, is charged with failing to timely declare an emergency in Flint despite corrosion in its water supply.
In other news, the FDA is looking into how drug names impact public and medical profession perceptions of a drug's efficacy, and shareholders push back against AmerisourceBergen's large-scale payments to its CEO and management.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is facing calls to issue new safe-distancing guidelines, possibly lowering the current 6-foot limit, as schools begin to reopen. And new data shows that Florida's in-person learning did not translate to covid hotspots in schools.
The analysis, published Thursday, examined prescriptions given to more than 1,500 patients at nearly 200 hospitals between May 1 and Sept. 30 of 2015.
Patients taking low-dose aspirin had less-severe coronavirus outcomes, including lower requirements for ventilation. Meanwhile, the WHO has announced it may have found where the virus began.
States like California, Florida, Oregon, Arkansas and Michigan continue to report ups and downs in the vaccine distribution flow.
In other news, Missouri and Maryland expand their covid vaccine eligibility; Atlanta Hawks staff and players get vaccines; and many medical workers still have doubts about getting a shot.
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