Virus Sidelines Nevada Gov., Spreads At ‘Truly Alarming Rate’ In Kentucky
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If a medical condition prevents someone from wearing a mask, Costco now requires them to wear a face shield at its nearly 560 stores. News is on sheriffs breaking up parties; businesses taking measures to keep shelves full and more.
Although many universities require that students get tested for COVID before leaving campus for the long holiday weekend, some schools are also turning their attention to the post-holiday headache.
Other news is on Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Ochsner Health, Methodist Le Bonheur, Tenet Healthcare Corp. and more.
Problems range from allergies to obesity in later life, according to the study in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The authors stressed the findings show association, not causation and more research about safe dosing is critical. News is on the use of kickbacks, heart failure drugs, and more.
Many physicians — stressed, burned out or worried about catching COVID — are leaving their jobs or retiring early. In North Dakota, nurses fret about catching COVID after the state decided to allow asymptomatic hospital employees to stay on the job.
In related news, airport screening effectiveness, algorithm-aided tracking and more.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services noted that New Jersey and Pennsylvania have set up their own state-run exchanges for the 2021 coverage year.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently announced the addition of up to 2,000 weekly COVID-19 tests for current members and staff.
Biden's coronavirus task force co-chair Vivek Murthy said the nation needs a "national alert system" to "help states and localities determine when to dial up and down their restrictions," as well as "adequate resources for them to put these restrictions in place.''
Because of the rapid viral spread across the U.S., in-person voting and poll workers who tested positive for COVID-19 since Election Day can not be definitively linked, AP reports.
The Trump administration's refusal to ascertain the election results bars the Biden transition team from getting crucial information about vaccine distribution plans from government officials. While calling on the White House to stop stalling, Biden officials will meet with Pfizer and other vaccine makers.
As COVID rates soar, many states impose new restrictions, while some others resist them.
The public health agency -- which has often been at odds with the White House over coronavirus messaging -- has recently begun to issue more assertive bulletins, though skipping news conferences to explain them. Other CDC news relates to cruises and Thanksgiving.
Health officials and President-elect Joe Biden criticize President Donald Trump's stonewalling of any transition steps while also leaving state governors on their own to deal with the COVID spike. The stakes are high: an estimated 13 million Americans could contract coronavirus before Inauguration Day at the current pace.
Schools, restaurants, recreational activities and group gatherings will all be impacted as the two states take more aggressive steps to try to curtail the latest virus surge.
The uncontrolled outbreak is also pushing hospitalizations to record levels of more than 69,000 Sunday.
Moderna's Phase 3 study involved 30,000 volunteers. The news comes a week after Pfizer and BioNTech said their vaccine was more than 90% effective; both of the vaccines use the same technology based on a molecule known as mRNA.
After that, about 25 million to 30 million people each month could be vaccinated, Moncef Slaoui said. And a scientist who helped develop Pfizer's vaccine predicts that life could return to "normal" by next winter as long as there was a high COVID vaccination rate before next fall.
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