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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.
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.
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.
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.
"He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is,” said former first lady Michelle Obama in the keynote speech of the first night of the virtual Democratic National Convention. Other speakers who made waves are Govs. Gretchen Whitmer (Mich.) and Andrew Cuomo (N.Y.), as well as a woman who's father died from COVID-19: His "only preexisting condition was trusting Donald Trump."
"A proposal by Pentagon officials to slash Military Healthcare by $2.2 billion dollars has been firmly and totally rejected by me," President Donald Trump tweeted, after the plan was reported by Politico.
Coronavirus only lags behind heart disease and cancer. Meanwhile, nursing homes infections reach record levels and Texas joins a grim group of states that have reported more than 10,000 deaths.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Opinion writers express views about school issues created by quarantines and collecting data on the pandemic.
Editorial pages focus on these pandemic topics and others.
Media outlets report on news from Lebanon, New Zealand, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Jordan, France, Italy, Ireland, Brazil and elsewhere.
Media outlets report on news from Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Nevada and Arizona.
In other news from the states: Iowans and Californians struggle with power outages; a second person in Massachusetts has EEE; people are ignoring New York's quarantine order; and more.
Also in the news: the University of New Hampshire offers help for avoiding opioid addiction; drug overdoses rise in Canada; and Massachusetts will destroy aging marijuana vapes.
Topics in the news include: homelessness; hunger; nursing homes; race; and bias against transgender and non-binary individuals.
Lifeguarding in the pandemic means contactless ocean rescues and lifeguards who carry hand sanitizer. And with traditional summer jobs like camp counselor positions gone, one local government is recruiting teens and young adults to help with virus testing coordination.
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