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Nick Saban's COVID infection is the latest twist to a damaged football season in the Southeastern Conference. He suspects his travels to Mississippi last weekend for a game. News is on winter sports and the NFL, as well.
A surge in COVID cases across the United States, as well as a lack of precise information about how the virus spreads indoors, threatens holiday celebrations this year.
The insurer waived some costs and propped up providers during the pandemic. News is on a rapid growth in concentrated insurance markets and artificial intelligence, as well.
With the approval, there are now both a vaccine — Merck’s Ervebo — and a therapeutic to battle Ebola Zaire, one of the deadliest infections known to humankind. The treatment, Inmazeb, is an antibody cocktail made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the same company that is developing a monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID that was given to President Donald Trump this month.
EpiVacCorona, described as a "peptide-based shot," has yet to even begin large-scale trials. Russia announced its first vaccine, Sputnik V, on Aug. 11.
Negotiations over an additional coronavirus relief package remain stalled, as both sides are still at odds over issues like employer liability and oversight of aid to states.
In settlement of a lawsuit filed by Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, the U.S. Postal Service agreed to reverse recent changes that have delayed mail delivery in the lead-up to the election.
As the presidential candidates prepare for tonight's separate town hall events — to be controversially broadcast at the same time — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hones his health care message to voters. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump downplays the COVID pandemic.
In his ruling, federal judge Bernard Friedman called Tennessee's 48-hour waiting period “gratuitously demeaning" as well as "highly insulting and paternalistic" to women seeking an abortion. Meanwhile, Texas' attorney general indicates he will seek an appeal of another abortion law just blocked in court.
The Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services is also adding additional telehealth services to coverage.
The rosy picture the Trump administration painted for the public in the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak contrasts with the more dire closed-door briefings provided by economists to administration officials and Republican donors and passed along to investors, the New York Times reports. In other administration news: Dr. Deborah Birx's role in undermining WHO and efforts to halt Nevada from using Chinese-made COVID test kits.
The letter is a direct rebuttal to reports this week that Trump administration is pushing the controversial approach. "This is a dangerous fallacy unsupported by scientific evidence," the letter says. "Uncontrolled transmission in younger people risks significant morbidity and mortality across the whole population."
Melania Trump revealed that her son, Barron, did test positive for the coronavirus. The 14-year-old did not show any symptoms, while the first lady says that she experienced mild ones.
As she did the previous two days of hearings, Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, spent most of Wednesday parrying senators’ questions rather than answering them, although she was feistier in her responses to Democrats seeking to put her on the spot, Politico reports.
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