AstraZeneca Trial For Children Suspended
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.
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California Sets June 15 Full-Reopening Date, With Vaccine Supply Caveats
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.
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Drowning Worries Cause Amazon Baby Bath Seat Recall
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.
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How Fake N95s Got Spotted
Other health care industry news is on workers killed by covid, worn out by covid and politicized by covid.
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Drug Company Admits Using Fake Data
Fibrogen used false data for its anemia pill. In other news, a lot of money is sloshing around the drug and medical device industries.
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Skin-Color Cells Cause Higher Pain Tolerance In Redheads
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.
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First Trachea Transplant Considered A Success
Doctors at New York's Mount Sinai hospital replace a woman's trachea that had been damaged by severe asthma.
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Trump And Biden Officials Knew of J&J Contractor’s Problems
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.
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Opposition Rises Against Covid Vaccine Passports
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.
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Open Eligibility For Covid Vaccines: How’s It Going?
As you might expect: crowds. But in some places, supply exceeds demand.
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Trials Start On Army-Developed Covid Vaccine
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.
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Most Children Who Developed MIS-C Initially Had Few Signs Of Covid
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.
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Study: One-Third Of Covid Patients Diagnosed With Neurological Disorder
About 1 in 8 of the patients were diagnosed for the first time with such an illness, most commonly anxiety or depression, Stat reports.
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5 States Have Almost Half Of All New Covid Infections
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.
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All Adults Can Have A Covid Shot By April 19, Biden Says
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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First Edition: April 7, 2021
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Viewpoints: Ways Covid Has Changed Health Systems; Genomic Sequencing Needed To Slow Pandemic
Opinion writers tackle these Covid issues.
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Perspectives: New Hospital Pricing Rules Provide Clarity; Abortion Opponents Want National Ban
Editorial pages weigh in on these public health topics.
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Covid Has Killed 3 Million Worldwide
As a covid uptick in India takes the daily infection rate past 100,000, variants like P.1 cause worry in Peru and the Philippines is suffering a huge surge, it's estimated 3 million people have died as a result of the pandemic coronavirus.
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Utah Makes Fathers Responsible For Child Support From Conception
In other news across the states, Arkansas' governor vetoes a bill banning health care access by trans youth, Ohio consolidates its pandemic orders and keeps mask requirements, and reports say only about half of children at risk in Massachusetts are visited by child welfare.
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