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U.S. District Judge Jill Otake will decide a case that challenges Hawaii's strict COVID quarantine policy. Although the Justice Department weighed in against the policy, Otake said the agency doesn't have the authority to amend the lawsuit in a case where it is not a plaintiff.
“Whenever he’d see me, he’d try to grab onto me,” Bill Hucker, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, says of his 4.5-year-old son. “And every time the little guy fell down and I could hear him cry, I wanted to be there with him. Instead of being able to help out, everything was dumped on his mom.” In other health industry news: Medical residents start rotations in a new reality; the continuing challenges of PPE; and more.
Hospital administrations in Houston and Dallas are now saying they think they have enough beds to accommodate the additional hospitalizations due to the upsurge. In some instances, the number of COVID patients has doubled since Memorial Day. “All the hospitals have a plan to expand as necessary,” said Peter Urbanowicz, a former U.S. Health and Human Services Department chief of staff who is helping Dallas County coordinate the region’s hospitals. “They’re going to use every nook and cranny of the hospital.”
In other public health topics: homeless camps, pregnancy, museums and Disney's Splash Mountain.
Texas, Arizona and Florida are now leading in the number of new cases confirmed every day, and experts are worried that the states' leaders aren't doing enough to get control of the skyrocketing numbers. Other news comes out of California, New York, North Carolina, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine, Montana, Louisiana and Georgia.
The issue has become all the more serious as the number of young Americans with COVID continues to rise. While some schools are partnering with experts to try to make the reopening as safe as possible, others are relying heavily on digital solutions for their students.
CMS announced Thursday that 487,000 people signed up for an Affordable Care Act exchange plan since the last open enrollment period closed in December. Losing job-based health coverage is one of the life events that qualifies someone for HealthCare.gov special enrollment. Meanwhile, more issues with short-term health plans are reported.
“I’m asking people to recognize that we’re in a different situation today than we were in March, in April, where the virus was being disproportionately recognized in older individuals with significant comorbidities and was causing significant hospitalizations and deaths,” said CDC Director Robert Redfield. Public health news is on infections among younger people, charting the spread of infection, vaccines, unexpected weight gains, social distancing in bars, seniors who can't use telemedicine, mask-wearing, LBGTQ health care, mental health, hands-off exhibit time, and more, as well.
According to a proposed rule, CMS would permanently allow telehealth costs to be reimbursable for home health agencies. And CMS' Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation announced an extension for its pilot Medicare Care Choices Model program.
Also: Country music deals with racial stereotypes; LGBTQ Pride movement prepares to turn 50; the mental effects of racism; and more.
Data and other evidence continues to pile up that shows that Black Americans are being disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Meanwhile, as states and cities across the country continue to grapple with the issue of police violence.
Republican lawmakers said they wished that in some instances President Donald Trump would wear a mask so that the general public would follow his example. Meanwhile, Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz of Texas -- a state where cases are skyrocketing -- say they don't understand the administration's decision to cut federal support of drive-thru testing sites.
“Amazingly, he hasn’t grasped the most basic fact of this crisis: To fix the economy we have to get control over the virus,” presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden said of President Donald Trump, who has been on the road touting recovery efforts.
Using terms like "treason" and "insurrection," President Donald Trump's comments have become increasingly aggressive about the protests against racial profiling and police violence.
The GAO report makes clear how the mistakes were made by sending checks to people who had died since filing tax returns. Currently, as the government considers a second round of stimulus checks, there are no plans to recoup the first payments.
The Democrats' bill includes several measures that civil rights activists have been pushing for decades, such as amending the federal criminal code to make it easier to prosecute police officers for misconduct by lowering the standard that prosecutors must meet. But both parties have signaled an unwillingness to compromise on their bills.
The briefing will take place at HHS rather than the White House, with Vice President Mike Pence at the helm. Meanwhile, NBC News obtained the task force's internal data tracking COVID-19 sharp surges in locations around the nation, despite President Donald Trump's message that the outbreak is "going away."
In other news: Feminist legal scholars applaud campus sex-assault rules; U.S. Postal Service finds surprising financial upside during the pandemic.
If the Supreme Court invalidated the health law, more than 20 million Americans could lose their coverage and protections for pre-existing conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Democrats seized on the Trump administration's move, calling it an "unfathomable cruelty."
“[Donald Trump’s] like a child who can’t believe this has happened to him — all his whining and self-pity,” presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said during a campaign speech in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. “Well, this pandemic didn’t happen to him. It happened to all of us. And his job isn’t to whine about it. His job is to do something about it, to lead.” Biden also criticized the president's "heartless" actions around the ACA and called for a public option. Meanwhile, Trump campaign message continues to sidestep the resurgence of coronavirus cases.
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