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The number of women seeking care in other states increased from 157 in February 2020 to 947 in April 2020, and second-trimester abortions jumped 61% after the lifting of the ban. News reports look at spikes in overdose deaths in four Ohio counties, and pandemic news, as well.
Media outlets report on news from Palau, Mexico, China, Pakistan and Indonesia.
Many factors, including limited PPE and staff shortages, could be leading to increased drug-resistant infections during the pandemic, according to the three medical societies. News is on the outbreak in a Vancouver hospital and more.
The Department of Health and Human Services issued an advisory opinion stating that pharmaceutical companies are obliged to offer discounts to medical facilities providing care to low-income communities.
The Trump administration said the changes, which require the release of raw data, are aimed at increasing transparency. But the former director of the EPA's Science Board criticized the move, saying, "It sounds good on the surface. But this is a bold attempt to get science out of the way so special interests can do what they want.”
President-elect Joe Biden didn't mince words when stumping for Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock : "If you send Jon and the Reverend to Washington, those $2,000 checks will go out the door." The Georgia runoffs are today.
The massive joint venture between Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway suffered from a poorly defined mission, strategic blunders and a failure to show measurable progress, Stat says.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says that his state is now the fourth in the U.S. to identify an infection by the more contagious coronavirus strain that is forcing the United Kingdom to shut down again.
Emergency medics also being told to not transport patients who have little chance of surviving as some hospitals reach a point of crisis.
Patients and health care providers were alerted by the FDA about potentially incorrect results from Curative's lab-based test and urged re-testing.
Officials in Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Texas, Nebraska, Oregon, California and Hawaii struggle to jump-start mass inoculations programs.
Other news on vaccine development and manufacturing looks at how we got here and the challenges ahead. Advice for people with allergies and cancer is also reported.
The supply of covid vaccines made it to the states, Operation Warp Speed chief scientific adviser Moncef Slaoui says, while acknowledging a "lag" in state administration.
Ideas like cutting dosages in half or skipping the second shot have been floated to accelerate U.S. distribution of the covid vaccine. But FDA officials says that deviating from the tested and approved protocols could undermine the vaccination efforts.
With so many dosages sitting unused, Florida and New York governors warned medical facilities that they risk fines or future allotment cuts if they don't accelerate covid vaccinations.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial pages focus on reasons behind the delay in administering vaccines and other issues.
Opinion writers weigh in on these public health topics and others.
One former worker in rural Michigan who raised alarms said, "They told me, 'Do not reach out to the DEA, do not call the police. If you do so, your employment is going to be terminated immediately.'"
Missouri’s 22 prison facilities have recorded a total of 5,059 cases, including 40 deaths. In other news, states attempt an ad contest to promote mask wearing and Massachusetts gets a telemedicine law.
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