Another Politician Gets COVID
Pennsylvania's governor is the latest. In other state news, Baltimore shuts down all dining and Anchorage gets a monoclonal antibody infusion center.
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Pennsylvania's governor is the latest. In other state news, Baltimore shuts down all dining and Anchorage gets a monoclonal antibody infusion center.
Canada also approved it and expects to authorize Moderna's vaccine soon. Other global news includes concerns of vaccine hoarding by rich countries and a directive for China's airline pilots to wear diapers rather than risk COVID infection using aircraft bathrooms.
Fewer Black children getting flu shots and postponed diagnosis of cancers are among the concerns in a year of rampant COVID infections.
And yet, as COVID deaths rise ever higher, some jurisdictions are still pushing back against requiring people to wear a mask.
Media reports look at protection from one shot of Pfizer's vaccine and more vaccine news.
The report, by the Milliman consulting firm, recommends that Florida alter its contracts with pharmacy benefit managers so more of the discounts negotiated by those PBMs goes to the state's Medicaid managed care plans. Also in the news, Google launches a new research app and some patients in deep pain seek a new study of a controversial pain killer, Vioxx.
School news also covers bonuses for employees in Alabama, special ed teachers, HBCUs and more.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar met with the Biden transition team, and Dr. Deborah Birx seeks a role in the Biden administration.
Sixty-four percent of health care companies reported a shortage of supplies. In other health care industry news, Encompass Health wants to do away with its home health and hospice segment.
Lobbying by the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association persuaded legislators from moving ahead on a bill to ban surprise medical bills.
After getting medicines many COVID patients can't obtain, Rudy Giuliani was released from the hospital. But at least 30 people in the Michigan legislature, where Giuliani spoke maskless, have tested positive.
With six weeks left in President Donald Trump’s term, the administration has put together a revised plan for the discount cards, which it circulated inside the administration Tuesday. The plan came with instructions to expedite approval and send cards in December and January, Politico reports.
There is no consensus yet on a bill to provide economic relief to people and businesses affected by the COVID pandemic, including providing liability protections to employers whose employees get sick or die from COVID.
The reactions that two people in Britain suffered Wednesday after receiving the Pfizer vaccine were not predicted by trials in tens of thousands of people, experts say. The exact ingredients used in Pfizer’s vaccine are proprietary and have not been publicly disclosed.
Meanwhile, HHS chief Alex Azar said Wednesday that the Trump administration is confident it has enough contracts with companies to ensure adequate doses of the COVID vaccine for all Americans.
All the while, America is racing toward another stunning total: 300,000 total deaths from COVID.
Hospitals across the country are overwhelmed as COVID hospitalizations continue to rise.
Emergency-use authorization (EUA) could come as soon as today, but Peter Marks, the director of the FDA division overseeing vaccines, tempered that outlook Wednesday.
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