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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.
In the first of regular pandemic briefings, White House officials tried to manage expectations about the timeline for vaccine distribution.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Editorial pages focus on these pandemic topics and other public health issues, as well.
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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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.
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.
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.
The withdrawn rules come after White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain ordered a freeze on new or pending rules issued by the Trump administration.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And while distribution remains sluggish and chaotic, the demand is growing as nearly half of adult Americans say they want the vaccine.
Continued distribution challenges are reported out of California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Iowa.
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