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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says his company's mid-October target to apply for FDA emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate has shifted to mid-November, at the earliest.
Health care professionals brace for the fall resurgence's influx of new coronavirus patients — and worry that the winter will be even worse. Meanwhile, the global tally of infections passes 40 million.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Opinion writers express views about these approaches to the pandemic and others as well.
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This week's selections include stories on smallpox, Subway bread, the importance of plants in medicine, cancer, gun deaths and NASA. Also, The Marshall Project takes a deep dive into why police dogs in Indianapolis are biting people at a rate unseen in the other largest 19 U.S. cities.
Global news is on travel restrictions in England, Spain, France and Italy; a tentative, partial reopening between New Zealand and Australia; and more.
News is from Texas, Rhode Island, Florida, Iowa and California.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, who toured with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, said families deserve options for learning despite an uptick in cases. More school news is from New York, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Indiana and elsewhere.
The Department of Defense partnered with United Airlines in the six-month study. Other public news reports are on rapid tests, public restrooms, premature births, a teen who tested negative but then spread infection to 11 relatives, nursing homes and more.
News is on an offensive video from FIGS, how a doctor's bias impacts care, the future of telemedicine, home health aides and more.
These patients spent, on average, 4.5 fewer days in intensive care than those with Type A or AB blood. The latter group averaged 13.5 days in the ICU and was more likely to require ventilators.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved a waiver request from Georgia to expand its Medicaid program with restrictions that narrow the number of residents who will be eligible.
Whether making it, transporting it or administering it, every step of the COVID vaccination process is rife with complications, Stat reports.
Remdesivir is the only antiviral drug authorized for treatment of COVID in the U.S., and the results are likely a major blow to scientists hunting for a viable medication.
Up to now, the stimulus stalemate has primarily been between House Democrats and White House negotiators. But the latest $1.8 trillion proposed package, which President Donald Trump says he supports, was nixed Thursday by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
While the confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett focused on the Affordable Care Act and abortion, there are a host of health-policy cases the high court will decide in the near future and far term, Politico reports.
Residents of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, rail against using the town's name to promote herd immunity; the CDC struggles to contain White House meddling; former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he was "wrong" not to wear a mask at the White House; and more.
The Trump administration rejected California's request for disaster-relief funds to help it recover from some of the worst wildfires in the state's history. It also recently withheld health care funds from 9/11 first responders and stimulus checks from incarcerated people, and has threatened to withhold COVID grants from "anarchist" cities.
President Donald Trump announced his plan ahead of legal and regulatory reviews, which are now bogged down by questions of whether the White House has the authority to outlay billions in Medicare funds. One anonymous administration official tells AP that the odds are 75-25 it won't happen.
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