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New York Sets Fines For Travelers Who Refuse To Give Airport Officers Details Of Quarantine Plans
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that people flying into New York will be required to fill out forms with contact information and travel plans and provide them to police officers at the airport.
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Hong Kong Disneyland Faces Re-Closing Even As Disney Eyes More Openings In Florida
Global news reports are from Hong Kong, England, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Australia, Japan, and France.
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More Pro Athletes Get COVID
Coronavirus hits the NBA; meanwhile, the first Major League Baseball player who tested positive has rejoined teammates.
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FDA Deals Setback To CytoDyn’s HIV Drug; Gilead Reprimanded By British Firms For HIV Drug Claims
The Food and Drug Administration's refusal to accept CytoDyn's drug application could cause a lengthy setback for the drug. Meanwhile, Britain's pharmaceutical trade group spoke out against Gilead for disseminating information that unfairly compared one of its HIV drugs with a rival medicine sold by ViiV Healthcare, which is working toward an injectable medicine that prevents AIDS.
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Miami Becoming New ‘Epicenter Of The Pandemic’
More than 2,000 people are hospitalized the in South Florida city. In the past 13 days, Miami-Dade County has reported increases in Covid-19 hospitalizations (68%), in the number of ICU beds being used (69%) and in the use of ventilators (109%). News outlets look at the situation in Miami and elsewhere in Florida, as well as rising cases in Texas and other states.
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Dallas Officials Take COVID Testing Into Own Hands
Also: Quest Diagnostics works on turnaround times; testing in Montana and California; former Trump aide Mick Mulvaney now says testing snafus are inexcusable.
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Air-Quality Warning Issued In San Diego Amid Navy Ship Fire
Other public health news is on a memory care unit, prisons, college health centers, health care workers, mask-wearing and more.
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Researchers Salvage Damaged Lungs For Transplants By Attaching Them To Live Pigs
The scientists from Vanderbilt and Columbia connected lungs deemed too damaged to be used for transplants to a large vein in the neck of a live pig, so that its blood flowed through the vessels. In one case, that circulation allowed the human lung to heal enough to meet transplant requirements.
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Dramatic Increase In Drug-Resistant Infections Reported
News outlets also cover the latest research on diabetes, strokes, sexually transmitted infections and rabies.
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‘Shocking’: One-Third Of Young Adults May Face Severe COVID-19 Risks, Especially If Smoking
“I think most young adults don’t think they’re at risk,” author Dr. Charles Irwin Jr., director of the UCSF Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, told The San Francisco Chronicle. “To me, that was shocking to find that smoking contributed so much to being at risk. ” Research-related news is on strokes, rheumatoid arthritis drugs, cardiac injuries, and dengue fever, as well.
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Inflammatory Syndrome Seen More Widely
Doctors are seeing a COVID-related syndrome, first seen only in children, in adults.
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Scientists See Vaccine Progress — And Encounter Roadblocks
Many problems loom, such as congressional funding and a potential shortage of glass vials.
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For-Profit Providers Must Pay Taxes On Coronavirus Grants, IRS Says
Also in the news: Universal Health Services settles dispute with Massachusetts over improper billing and electronic health record companies team up with Big Tech.
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Funding Bill Advancing In House Has $24B In COVID Emergency Money
The emergency funding, that is part of a larger spending bill, was approved by the House Appropriations Committee Monday. Continued pandemic response is expected to be at the center of fierce congressional debate over the next few weeks.
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Consumer Group Estimates 5.4M Workers Lost Health Insurance Following Economic Downturn
The study by Families USA found that the increase in uninsured workers from February to May was nearly 40 percent higher than the highest previous increase, which occurred during the recession of 2008 and 2009. Other researchers have projected the coverage loss to be even higher when factoring in workers' families.
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Supreme Court Hearing On Obamacare Unlikely Before November Election
The Supreme Court announced that justices will not hear in October the challenge to the Affordable Care Act, supported by the Trump administration. The case, and its implications for Americans' health care coverage, is a top campaign issue this year. Meanwhile, HHS Secretary Alex Azar's comments on preexisting conditions is fact checked.
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Hospitals, Insurers Unhappy With Medicare’s Proposed Change To Severity Payments
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed Inpatient Prospective Payment System regulation is at issue.
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For First Time In 17 Years, US Executes Federal Inmate
Daniel Lewis Lee was put to death by lethal injection early Tuesday at the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana, after the Supreme Court cleared the way.
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Rule Requiring In-Person Doctor Visit To Get Abortion Pill Suspended
A federal judge's decision allows health care providers to mail or deliver mifepristone, the FDA-approved medication that induces an abortion, to a patient during the U.S.-declared public health emergency due to COVID-19.
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