Don’t Celebrate Yet: Covid Cases Hit Reverse, Go Up Again
The U.S. reported more than 38,000 new cases and 802 deaths Thursday. Meanwhile, new research suggests that coronavirus may contribute to erectile dysfunction.
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Some Businesses, Stores Keep Mask Rules Despite CDC Guidelines
Companies are also considering how to respond to the CDC's new recommendations, Bloomberg reports, with stores like Home Depot saying they'll stick twith their current mask rules -- pitching workers into an even trickier battle with non-mask wearing customers. NPR notes that that maskless shopping rules depend on where you live.
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Startled States, Cities Scramble After Abrupt CDC Masking Pivot
Some states, like Ohio and Pennsylvania, immediately adopted the new CDC guidance. Other states and cities are taking a wait-and-see approach, like Massachusetts and New York who say they will maintain existing rules for now.
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Bipartisan Smiles Revealed As Biden, Harris And Lawmakers Peel Off Masks
The White House was quick to demonstrate public support for the relaxed CDC guidance. President Joe Biden and a group of senators first took off their face coverings during an Oval Office meeting. And then he and Vice President Kamala Harris marked the "great milestone" in Rose Garden comments.
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Masking Turnabout Met With Glee, Some Anxiety And A Whole Lot Of Questions
The CDC's sudden announcement prompted the fully vaccinated to ask if the pandemic is over for them. Others worry that it will create more confusion -- and continued confrontations -- over who is vaccinated and who is not.
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Fully Vaccinated People Can Skip Masks In Most Indoor, Outdoor Places: CDC
In a big step toward returning to "normal" life in the U.S., the CDC announced new guidance that any person who is fully vaccinated may stop wearing face coverings, for the most part. At a Rose Garden ceremony marking the moment, President Joe Biden summed it up this way: “Get vaccinated — or wear a mask until you do.”
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First Edition: May 14, 2021
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Viewpoints: Student Depression Needs Urgent Attention; How Covid Has Altered Abortion Access
Editorial pages delve into teenage mental health, abortion access, hospice care and medical terminology.
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Different Takes: Family Doctors Role In Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy; Should Kids Unmask Outdoors?
Opinion writers tackle Covid, vaccines and outdoor masking.
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WHO Report Says Covid Was ‘Preventable Disaster’
An independent review of global responses to the coronavirus pandemic ordered by the World Health Organization found many faults, including a slow reaction in early stages. Meanwhile, India's covid crises continues, with over 4,000 recorded deaths today.
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Research Roundup: Covid; New Ways To Treat Wounds; Weight Loss; More
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
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Pfizer Asks UK To Approve Vaccine For 12- to 15-Year-Olds
As the United Kingdom moves toward relaxing covid restrictions, Pfizer has sought official approval to use its vaccines for younger people in the nation, and reports say the U.K.'s covid app was effective. In other news, postpartum depression is linked with covid lockdowns.
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Wisconsin Residents With Disabilities Slam GOP Voting Bills
In other news, Ohio's plans for distributing anti-overdose drugs is accused of racial bias, North Carolina moves to bar shackling of pregnant prisoners, and a woman's death in Nevada is tied to the Real Water liver illness issue.
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Dying In The US? It’ll Cost You More Now Than Pre-Pandemic
The average "cost of dying" grew over 14% during 2020. Separately, "covid nails" are in the news, and reports say fewer new prescriptions for the addiction drug buprenorphine were issued during the pandemic, despite a spike in overdose deaths.
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America’s Fourth Favorite Company Is Moderna; Pfizer Is Seventh
While you may expect to spot SpaceX and Amazon in the top of Axios/Harris' top 100 company reputation poll, Moderna and Pfizer's rankings might surprise you -- the companies are riding the vaccine approval wave. Not true for J&J, slipping to 72nd place this year.
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More Hospitals, Health Care Investors Pull Out Their Pocketbooks
Industry names in the news include the Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Piedmont Healthcare, HCA, Ginkgo Bioworks, the Lisa and John Pritzker Family Fund, Aetna, Cityblock Health and more.
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States Starting To Broadly Lift Mask Mandates, Other Covid Restrictions
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster banned all schools and local government from issuing mask mandates. Elsewhere: most of Ohio's pandemic restrictions will go inside a month; Maryland may lift its mask rules soon; and California's mask mandates will end in June. Meanwhile, in a poll, 57% believe proof of vaccine status should be required to attend a sporting event.
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House Democrats Seek To Broaden Immigrants’ Access To Health Care
More than 80 lawmakers have signed on to a bill introduced yesterday that would eliminate the current 5-year waiting period legal immigrants face before being able to enroll in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Roll Call reports. And The Hill looks at the advocacy groups lining up to lobby for the bill.
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HHS May Push Deadline For Hospitals To Spend Pandemic Relief Funds
In other news: 32 hospitals have sued the Department of Health and Human Services, alleging that Secretary Xavier Becerra is discriminating against states that did not expand Medicaid.
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Covid Death Rate At A 10-Month Low, But About 600 Still Die Each Day
The covid situation is improving in the U.S., with the lowest daily death rate for 10 months and many states that experienced recent surges are now reporting fewer hospitalizations. But outbreak concerns still remain, including in Florida and for the young in Maine.
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