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Examples of a proposed change to curricula include the relationship between air quality and respiratory illness, and the mental health effects of losing your home during a hurricane.
Black women are dying in childbirth 2½ times more often than white women, according to federal statistics, and USA Today looks at the experiences of some African American women who felt they were not adequately treated. In other public health news, a doula who helps women in substance abuse recovery and some exercise advice.
But a high level of optimism was also found, Fox News reports. Public health news is on parental stress, workplace privacy, air travel safety, the duration of pandemics, police training and George Floyd's medical records, as well.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said schools need guidelines such as mandatory face coverings and strict social distancing rules to reopen safely, the AP reports.
In a paper published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, researchers suggest that masks may be able to mitigate how severe an illness an individual gets if infected by coronavirus. Other researchers suggest that since masks hold off many pathogens, they may allow the immune system to work better if coronavirus attacks.
CDC director Robert Redfield called the decline a “notable public health achievement.” But he cautioned: “Youth e-cigarette use remains an epidemic.”
In related news, a new study among regions that experienced a second wave found a significantly lower death rate among all confirmed cases than in the first wave. And health experts in Spain say a resurgence in that nation holds valuable lessons.
A small study suggested that 10% of Chinese swine workers had been exposed to the virus, the "G4" variant of H1N1 swine influenza.
The drugs are known as nucleoside polymerase inhibitors, or NUCs. According to scientists working on the study at the University of Florida, NUCs work by disrupting the viral replication process.
Congressional Democrats obtained invoices that detail expenses submitted by a consultant for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Seema Verma.
If Pfizer's vaccine is approved, deep freeze storage capacities are required -- something many doctor's offices go without. Other vaccine news is on FDA requirements and study participants, as well.
Four pharmacies told senators that mail-order delivery of prescriptions drugs have been impacted by recent decisions made by U.S. Postal Service leaders.
With the AstraZeneca trial halted, scientists are now working to determine if the volunteer's serious symptoms were caused by the experimental COVID-19 vaccine.
The U.S. will also stop limiting international arrivals from certain countries to 15 designated airports.
Testifying in front of a Senate panel, NIH Director Francis Collins said that "science and science alone" will drive any decisions on a coronavirus vaccine. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said: "There’s been no politicization of the vaccine process whatsoever."
Revelations that President Donald Trump intentionally deemphasized the pandemic's threat in critical early months were met with a barrage of criticism from Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, other lawmakers as well as public health officials.
White House officials try to handle the fallout from the Trump recordings. And "Rage" author Bob Woodward faces questions on why he waited six months to go public.
In February President Donald Trump told journalist Bob Woodward, in taped interviews for a book, that the coronavirus was more deadly than the flu and could be transmitted in the air -- but communicated none of that to the American people. The president now says he did it to avoid panic.
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