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Hundreds of detainees and staff are being tested for COVID-19 amid an outbreak at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California. And Mexican authorities say they will investigate claims that immigrant detainees were subjected to unwanted gynecological procedures at a rural Georgia hospital.
On Tuesday, the president expanded his ban on "efforts to indoctrinate government employees with divisive and harmful sex and race-based ideologies" by extending it to government contractors and the military.
Draft guidelines submitted by the FDA to the White House propose standards for authorizing emergency use of a COVID-19 vaccine that match ones set for regular vaccine approval, The Washington Post reported. The agency's move aims to reassure the public about vaccine safety and lowers the chances that one might be cleared before the Nov. 3 election.
Public health experts offer thoughts on what the next six months of the pandemic could look like, as the nation tries to digest 200,000 lives lost -- more Americans than those who died in World War I and the Vietnam War combined.
In remarks to reporters Tuesday, President Donald Trump said, "it’s a shame" that 200,000 have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. and that "it should have never, ever happened." Trump did not acknowledge the death toll at a Pennsylvania campaign rally hours later. News outlets looks at other ways the president has responded to the state of the pandemic.
International travel has dropped to 82% compared to last year as the borders of many countries remain closed to U.S. citizens. Other public health news is on beating COVID at 102, main sources of infection, safety precautions on a cruise ship, and more.
Below, check out the roundup of California Healthline’s coverage and the best of the rest of the news.
Editorial writers focus on these pandemic topics and others.
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COVID news from England, Portugal, Finland, China, Ghana, Cameroon, New Zealand and Indonesia, where people who refuse to wear masks are ordered to dig graves for pandemic victims.
News about the COVID epidemic from Michigan, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, Nevada, California, and Hawaii.
In one Texas school district, an attacker encrypted all the data and demanded $50,000 in ransom. The New York Times reports on what's known about cases at K-12 schools so far without a federal monitoring effort.
Cruise companies say they will mandate COVID tests for all passengers and crews and mask wearing onboard. Hollywood attempts to resume production with union-negotiated rules in place.
Only 71% of the children received treatment in the three months that followed an initial insurance claim — but that rate greatly varied between ZIP codes. In the best-performing areas, nearly 90% received follow-up care within three months of an initial claim; in the worst-performing, only half did.
Public health experts question the methods of a study that concluded gyms and health clubs are not spreading the coronavirus. More COVID-related public health news is on nursing homes and home ventilation.
In other health care industry news: the explosion of telemedicine, more hospital data breach fines, another young doctor dies of COVID and more.
Also in the news: the price of insulin versus other drugs; Legend Biotech; Keytruda; and Perdue Pharma CEO Craig Landau.
Only patients who couldn't be treated with surgery were involved in the study. Compared with those who didn't drink coffee, the ones who drank a cup a day had an 11% increased rate of overall survival and a 5% increased rate of living progression-free. And the more they drank, the better.
Missing from participation are the U.S., China and Russia. Other vaccine news including developments in Russia and China.
The Trump administration is scrambling to make a future coronavirus vaccine free to the nation's 44 million Medicare beneficiaries, since Medicare doesn’t currently cover costs for drugs approved under emergency-use designations, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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