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Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
Media outlets report on news from New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other states, as well.
Other global news is from Turkey, Brazil, New Zealand, France and Lebanon.
Also in the news: Ticketmaster is working on a plan to verify concertgoers' vaccine status; a child with measles had possible exposures at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport; Ohio State postpones its game against Maryland because of COVID; and more.
Many veterans homes chose to protect their residents this year. More than 4,200 veterans have died from COVID in government-run homes and nearly 85,000 have been infected.
Meanwhile in Utah, the state's largest hospital system is hiring nearly 200 traveling nurses to boost staffs at struggling intensive care units and hospital wards.
News outlets interview a few of the participants in Pfizer's testing, with some likening the side effects to a "severe hangover" and another saying he now feels "superhuman." Participants don't know if they received the vaccine or a placebo.
Moderna will start analyzing the first round of date from its final-stage trials and expects to release information on the vaccine's efficacy in a few weeks.
The coverage will apply to bamlanivimab. At least one doctor hailed the news as "helpful" for nursing home residents in particular.
And President Donald Trump -- who continues to contest that he lost the White House -- blasted the FDA over post-election timing of the announcement about the efficacy of Pfizer's COVID vaccine.
In particular, public disputes with Dr. Scott Atlas escalate while Dr. Anthony Fauci also comments on former Trump adviser Steve Bannon's public call that he be beheaded.
The state of the public health crisis is also reported out of Iowa, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.
Ron Klain served as the "Ebola czar" during the Obama administration. The incoming Biden administration will encounter depleted staffs at nearly every federal agency.
This group met for the first time on Tuesday and will be largely separate from the coronavirus task force that President-elect Joe Biden named earlier this week, Politico reports. News outlets report on other ways the incoming administration is approaching the COVID public health emergency.
The latest COVID spike is flooding hospitals and medical offices, straining the U.S. health care system. Doctors fear that the crisis is approaching a point where they will have to make dreaded choices about which patients gets beds, ventilators or medications and who will be sent home.
The death toll stands at over 241,000. The alarming trend of breaking daily records for new infections continued as well, with the U.S. reporting over 144,000 cases on Wednesday.
AstraZeneca's work is among many trying to evaluate known treatments. Other disappointments include Sanofi’s rheumatoid arthritis medicine Kevzara.
Temperature checks and questions about health rarely detect asymptomatic people. Testing detects more cases.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial writers express views about the Supreme Court's response to a case challenging the Affordable Care Act.
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