Labs Work On Modified Vaccines To Fight Covid Mutations
Pfizer says its vaccine works against mutations, but nonetheless Pfizer and Moderna are both working on a booster to fight the new variants.
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Millions Earmarked For Virus, Vaccine Research Treated As ‘Slush Fund,’ Special Counsel Finds
An HHS inspector general investigation finds that federal funds allocated for scientific advancement by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority were misappropriated for 10 years by federal officials in the Obama and Trump administrations. They called it tapping the "Bank of BARDA," ABC News reports.
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White House Will Set Safety Standards To Encourage More Schools To Reopen
Setting federal guidelines is part of President Joe Biden's strategy to get most schools back open during his first 100 days. That goal is getting pushback from teachers' unions, Politico reports.
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Vaccinations Will Take Months, Biden Covid Task Force Warns At First Briefing
In the first of regular pandemic briefings, White House officials tried to manage expectations about the timeline for vaccine distribution.
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First Edition: Jan. 28, 2021
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Research Roundup: Antibiotic Use In Newborns Linked To Reduced Growth; How Mental Illness, Covid Are Linked
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
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Viewpoints: President Biden’s Vaccine Goals Need To Be More Ambitious; Use Defense Production Act For Making Masks
Editorial pages focus on these pandemic topics and other public health issues, as well.
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‘Real Danger’: Low-Income Nations Fall Into ‘Have-Not’ Vaccine Status
Only one African nation has begun to vaccinate and others might not have vaccines until 2023. Public health experts say vaccine inequality will prolong the epidemic and possibly allow variants to emerge.
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Colorado Advances Plan To Import Drugs From Canada
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: Biden, Congress Must Seize Moment To Reduce Drug Prices
Read recent commentaries about drug-cost issues.
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Former Ohio Health Director Considers Run for US Senate
Amy Acton, a Democrat, resigned from the post after people threatened her because of her strong public health stance and Republican Gov. Mike DeWine loosened restrictions.
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Vaccine Fight Heats Up In Europe As UK Passes Grim Covid Milestone
The number of covid victims in the United Kingdom has eclipsed the number of civilians killed in World War II. Meanwhile, solidarity between the U.K. and E.U. is fraying, several nations have passed new mask rules, Holocaust survivors are receiving their first doses of the vaccine and more.
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HCA Healthcare Says It Will Share Patient Data With Covid Researchers
Dr. Jonathan Perlin, chief medical officer of the Nashville, Tenn.-based health system, said sharing information will "accelerate what is known about covid and its treatment, and by doing so, save lives." Names will be removed, HCA says.
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CMS Hits Pause Button On 3 Proposals For Dialysis, Medicare Part A, Oversight
The withdrawn rules come after White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain ordered a freeze on new or pending rules issued by the Trump administration.
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FDA Issues Alert About Mexico’s Hand Sanitizers
The agency said sanitizers, if laced with methanol, can be toxic when absorbed or not effective. News reports look at a cat with covid in Arkansas, the safest masks, and falling birth rates in the U.S.
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‘We’re Letting Science Speak Again’: Health Experts Renew Covid Briefings
Starting today, federal health officials and scientists will take the lead on briefing Americans three times a week about the state of the pandemic. News outlets report on other aspects of the Biden administration's covid and health care plans, as well.
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Democrats Weigh Options For Passing Aid Package With GOP Resistance
President Joe Biden and Democrats debate using the budget reconciliation process to push through another round of covid stimulus but it would come at the expense of bipartisanship.
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CDC Finds In-Person School With Safety Precautions Fuels Few Outbreaks
Researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at data from the fall semester and found it to be "reassuring" about the dangers of covid transmission in schools when masks and distancing are employed.
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Good News On Monoclonal Antibodies Keeps Rolling In From Clinical Trials
Regeneron said Tuesday that its antibody cocktail of casirivimab and imdevimab can prevent covid. And Eli Lilly, fresh off similar news last week, said Tuesday that a cocktail of bamlanivimab and etesevimab significantly reduces hospitalizations and deaths.
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January Already The Deadliest Month Of Pandemic As Global Cases Top 100M
With a world population of about 7.67 billion, the global case tally suggests that about one in every 76 people has had the virus.
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