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As the coronavirus public health emergency escalates, government officials and medical experts examine results and exit surveys for lessons they can learn from this year's elections.
Though he has not yet secured the presidency, former Vice President Joe Biden is launching transition planning that includes a COVID-19 task force and cabinet nominations that can get through a Republican-controlled Senate -- all while fighting legal challenges from President Donald Trump in court.
Contributing to this grim milestone: most states reported increased cases Wednesday, with at least five breaking their own daily records.
Ongoing vote counts in a handful of battleground states are under intense scrutiny as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden stands just a few Electoral College votes away from a projected victory. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump contests the process in court.
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The constitutional court ruled Oct. 22 to further tighten one of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws, allowing abortion only in cases of rape or incest. The ruling was scheduled to be formally published on Monday. Unpublished, it has no legal power.
McKesson said a group of state attorneys general have proposed the it and Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen pay $21 billion over 18 years to settle more than 3,000 lawsuits. Mylan, Pfizer and Bristol Myers Squibb are also in industry news.
An uptick in grinding is associated more with injuries to fillings, teeth and pain in the jaws and ears, according to the American Dental Association. Other public health news is on diets, vaccines, cruises and more.
“Home rule” municipalities like Anchorage and Juneau can exercise any powers not explicitly barred by the Alaska Legislature. But “second-class boroughs” — which function like counties — only have powers that the state explicitly granted to them. Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy has said that a mask mandate should be left up to local governments.
Skeptics of the federal government's management of the pandemic are not hopeful about the next few months.
Hospitals don't expect they would get hit by any post-election civil unrest. In other industry news, shortages of nurses remain a problem.
The ballot measure would have shifted about 75% of the state’s annual payment from “big tobacco" to cover Oklahoma's share of expenses for the expansion of Medicaid that voters approved earlier this year. Meanwhile, there's growing interest in Texas in expanding its Medicaid program.
And in other news: Researchers may have discovered why COVID causes serious blood clotting; scientists have begun to isolate which mouth tissues are most vulnerable to the coronavirus; new AI can tell if someone has COVID by listening to them cough; and more.
The alarming trend is expected to continue as new infections continue to climb in all but three states. Over 91,000 cases were confirmed on Wednesday, the second highest daily tally of the pandemic.
Ballot initiatives in several states targeted drug laws. The results of some are still undecided, like recreational marijuana measures in Montana and South Dakota.
Louisiana voters agreed to amend the state's constitution to spell out that it offers no protections for a right to an abortion. In Colorado, a proposition that would have banned the procedure after 22 weeks was voted down.
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