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"Adopting universal masking policies can help avert future lockdowns," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. News on PPE also covers masks with antiviral coating and the surgical gowns that are failing U.S. standards.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Opinion writers weigh in on news about a vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech.
Opinion writers express views about the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act before the Supreme Court.
News is from Ukraine, Denmark, Mexico, Canada, Ethiopia, Nepal, and Ireland.
Media outlets report on news from Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and other states, as well.
Employees at a handful of hospitals didn't wear face coverings or eye protection, according to regulators who visited the hospitals between June and September, the Bangor Daily News reports. One of the hospitals cited, Waldo County General Hospital in Belfast, is currently coping with a coronavirus outbreak among staffers.
In a couple of weeks, hundreds of thousands of students will return home with few required to test for the virus beforehand. News is on where to get a test before traveling and more.
Brazilian media reported that one volunteer had died but that the death was unrelated to trials of China's Sinovac vaccine, the Wall Street Journal said. In other news: Another study has found that hydroxychloroquine doesn't help hospitalized COVID patients.
A study shows cabotegravir was 89% more effective at preventing HIV infection than Truvada pills, although both reduce that risk.
Modern Healthcare identifies six critical ways in which the Trump administration could shape future government health care policy before Joe Biden takes office.
A final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services relaxes Obama-era regulations on Medicaid managed care providers.
Republican state officials and the Trump administration will argue that the justices should overturn the entire Affordable Care Act, which could upend health insurance coverage for 23 million Americans.
While the president-elect called news of Pfizer's vaccine efficacy a "cause for hope," Joe Biden says Americans can not relax efforts to combat viral spread and implores more to mask up and keep social distancing.
Eli Lilly's bamlanivimab is similar to the treatment President Trump received and may possibly keep people at high risk out of the hospital.
President-elect Joe Biden named members of his coronavirus task force and pleaded with Americans to mask up: “We could save tens of thousands of lives if everyone would just wear a mask for the next few months. Not Democratic or Republican lives, American lives."
And even as the U.S. passes the 10 million case mark since the beginning of the pandemic, the national testing system is still spotty with tests sitting unused.
But the vaccine’s complex and super-cold storage requirements — it needs to be kept at minus 70 degrees Celsius (-94 F) or below — are an obstacle for even the most sophisticated hospitals in the United States and may affect when and where it is available in rural or poor areas.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Opinion writers weigh in on these public health and mental health issues.
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