First Edition: Feb. 25, 2021
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Archives: Morning Breakouts
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Viewpoints: Lessons On Getting People Of Color To Vaccine Centers; One State’s Keep-It-Simple Strategy
Editorial pages focus on the challenges older people of color face in getting vaccinated and other topics, as well.
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Parsing Policy: GOP Disapproval Of HHS Nominee Is Laughable; Painful Truths About FDA’s Opioid Mistake
As President Joe Biden attempts to fill his cabinet, editorial pages focus on important qualities needed from leaders in those positions.
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Ghana Is First Nation To Receive Covid Shots Through Covax Global Initiative
The West African country received 600,000 AstraZeneca shots after proving it could distribute them quickly. Other news is from the U.K., China, Australia and elsewhere.
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Will This Be The Year Congressional Democrats Rein In High Drug Costs?
Read about the biggest pharmaceutical developments and pricing stories from the past week in KHN's Prescription Drug Watch roundup.
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Perspectives: PBMs Are Key To Solving High Drug Costs; Basic Biopharma Research Helps Everyone
Read recent commentaries about drug-cost issues.
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Pandemic Making You Flabby? Turn Off The TV And Exercise, Experts Urge
"[I've] seen a large number of people who have gained 10 to 15 pounds,” said one physician at Kaiser Permanente in San Jose. In other public health news: prediabetes, Zoom fatigue, addiction, food insecurity and more. Also: Golf great Tiger Woods is "responsive and recovering" after a car crash and emergency surgery.
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Virginia Repeals Ban On Abortion Coverage Through Exchanges
Also, the Boston Globe looks at ways that President Joe Biden can fulfill a campaign pledge to protect abortion rights. News reports are on legislation in North Carolina related to autism therapy and more.
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Biden To Target Ongoing Supply Chain Issues For PPE, Other Health Supplies
President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order that will try to smooth manufacturing limitations for products crucial to managing and containing the pandemic.
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As Shortages Ease, HHS Says It Will Stop Allocating Antibody Drugs
Health care providers should now order Eli Lilly and Regeneron's drugs directly from AmerisourceBergen, the sole distributor. They will still be free, Becker's Hospital Review reports. Other pharmaceutical and biotech news is on RHB-107, Theranos and glucose monitors.
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Ascension Says It’s Expanding Test Of Controversial Google Tool
The tool, dubbed "Care Studio," brings together patients' health data from separate systems across inpatient and outpatient facilities and makes it searchable for clinicians, Modern Healthcare writes. Critics have raised concerns about patient privacy protections.
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Stimulus Bill Rolling Toward Friday Vote In House
Meanwhile, a group of business executives endorse the package while Republicans signal that this could be the first covid relief package that receives zero Republican votes of support.
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Becerra Defends Experience, Testifies On Insurance Access, Health Costs
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra faces a second committee hearing today for his nomination as Department of Health and Human Services secretary. Stat also reports on a fresh line of attack from Republicans: that Becerra is not sympathetic enough to the pharmaceutical industry.
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Ray Of Hope: Models For Future Covid Deaths Revised More Optimistically
But a big variable is the impact of coronavirus variants on the trajectory of infections. Disease experts fear the U.S. may be just weeks away from cases spiking back up for a spring surge before falling again by summer.
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Study: Higher Covid Risks For Adults With Down Syndrome
The lead author of the study said it emphasizes the need to vaccinate the population, many of whom live in group homes. News reports look at how wearing glasses can protect you from covid and more.
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Highly Contagious California Variant Might Evade Vaccines, Experts Warn
Scientists raise concerns that if B.1.427/B.1.429 combines with the variant identified in the United Kingdom, that mutation could be an even more dangerous strain.
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Weekly Vaccine Deliveries To Increase, While Makers Pledge Big Supply Bump
Federal distribution of vaccine doses to the states will go up by one million each week, the Biden administration says.
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Vulnerable Groups Frustrated By Ongoing Lack Of Access To Shots
Months into the rollout, people with high-risk conditions, like cancer patients, or frequent virus exposure, like grocery workers, are still waiting to find out when they can get vaccinated.
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Vaccine Rollout At Prisons Dips Below General Population
News reports focus on vaccine rates for mentally and physically challenged people, communities of color and in indigenous people, as well.
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FDA Experts Endorse Covid Vaccine By Johnson & Johnson; Panel Meets Friday
The single-dose shot doesn't require special refrigeration. Although its level of protection against getting infected with covid is not as high as the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, health experts stress that the J&J shot helps where it matters most: by preventing hospitalization and death.
By khnlaureno