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The South Dakota Department of Health said one person who spent several hours at a bar on Main Street has tested positive and may have spread it to others at t eh South Dakota motorcycle rally. Maine, New Jersey and Illinois are also in the news.
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In other public health news: red cabbage is suspected in a Cyclospora outbreak; less than half of U.S. kids are aerobically fit; companies are adjusting their benefits packages to help with fertility treatments; and more.
Researchers in the U.K. are investigating a possible link to COVID after they learned that some of the children "had active coronavirus or had previously been exposed to the virus,” Reuters has reported.
The mask requirement alone can be problematic, many parents say. In other news: parents struggle to balance work needs with school needs; one Kansas teacher has tracked COVID's effects in K-12 schools; a new study cautions reliance on fever checks; and more.
For example, thousands of people have died or been hospitalized for drinking highly concentrated doses of alcohol, a social media rumor said to kill the virus. News on health care personnel is also on the resignations of public health officials and more.
Meanwhile, videos of college students having parties are still cropping up. Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House's top coronavirus adviser, say the parties are driving the spread of COVID.
Cigna initially said it wouldn't cover any pooled COVID-19 testing in a coverage policy that went into effect on Aug. 1. Heath industry news is on refunds, telehealth, remote working at Mass General, and more.
Scientists are now suggesting that herd immunity is achievable if 50%, not 70%, of a given population becomes immune through vaccination or surviving the infection. In other scientific news: is there a weekly COVID pattern?; a new mutation may be less deadly; and more.
Kodak is accused of violating insider-trading laws for disclosing a $765 million loan it won from the federal government to make pharmaceutical ingredients.
Novavax tests will be done in South Africa, which is experiencing a winter surge of COVID.
The FDA has alerted doctors and labs that they must use updated instructions with Thermo Fisher’s TaqPath or the test could yield inaccurate results. In other testing and tracing news: rapid tests, an Iowa data glitch, long wait times for results and more.
Onsite inspections of by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of providers and suppliers will resume for the first time since March 23.
Meanwhile, Republican Senate leaders are putting together an alternative coronavirus relief package that would also include funds for the U.S. Postal Service. Mail-in voting during the pandemic continues to be a hot-button issue.
With health care a top issue of the 2020 presidential contest, the social media ads signal how President Donald Trump will position his record. And the Trump campaign unveils branded face masks.
U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block issued a temporary injunction against an HHS regulation, scheduled to take effect Tuesday, that would roll back Obama-era protections for transgender people seeking health care.
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