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Many patients who recover from COVID-19 are still left with long-term lung damage, and there's few treatment options out there to help them. Some drugmakers are seeing an opportunity to get into the game where they couldn't when it comes to immediate treatment.
“How many more lives are we willing to sacrifice in the name of containing the virus?” said Elinore McCance-Katz, the Department of Health and Human Services assistant secretary for mental health and substance use. “We’ve worked so hard in states and communities across this country to combat epidemics like the opioids crisis. Why are we willing to forget those efforts now or deem them less important?”
Only 25% of black Americans in a recent survey expressed willingness to get a potential vaccine for the coronavirus despite the fact that they are among the hardest-hit populations by COVID-19. But the medical community has a long history of exploiting black Americans, so there's little trust in public health advice now. Meanwhile, the debate rages on about when a vaccine can be expected.
While as many as 20% of women can suffer from pregnancy-related anxieties during normal times, health experts around the globe are reporting a higher incident now. More public health news is on new normal hurricane evacuations, the unexpected toll on high-end learners, the return of the village mentality, Zoom fatigue, domestic violence, social distancing with cancer, safe time under the sun, truck drivers' stress, seniors facing despair, and cautiously re-approaching medical care, as well.
Data, provided after public-records requests were filed, shows that nearly 62% of the deaths in the state were recorded at 80 long-term care facilities. News also focuses on the financial toll the virus is taking on the industry across the country and comes from Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Michigan and California, as well.
Lawmakers and food banks want to know how the small event planner won a $39 million federal contract with no experience distributing food to charities. The company's failure to deliver a single box of food so far also raise larger questions about the Agriculture Department’s $3 billion “Farmers to Families Food Box” program, aimed at helping people during the pandemic. Other news on the food supply reports on an Oklahoma food bank and a Nebraska meat packing plant.
Editorial writers focus on this pandemic issue and others.
The lawsuit requests an emergency order lifting regulations requiring patients in the United States to pick up the drug at a hospital or medical facility. An attorney with the ACLU said that requirement puts patients at risk during the pandemic. News on the agency is also on relaxing food label rules and impurities in diabetes medicine.
Before the outbreak, reporting across the country was calling attention to the predatory practice of hospitals suing patients in high numbers. Now those same hospitals are receiving taxpayer money to keep afloat. In other news from the health industry: payment cuts, operating losses, ill-timed buyouts and insurance.
The Indian Health Service bought $3 million worth of masks from the newly-formed company of Zach Fuentes, President Donald Trump’s former deputy chief of staff -- a portion of which can't be used because they don't meet FDA standards. In other news on masks: a decontamination machine might fail to live up to its hype, paramedics forced to decide between using masks or saving them and drones offer new delivery method for medical gear.
He fought to the end to let people know there's no cure for AIDS. He lost his lover to the disease in 1984 and was himself infected with the virus that causes it.
Global pandemic developments are reported out of Spain, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Haiti, Venezuela, France, Lithuania, Finland, Brazil and other nations.
About 2.1 million new Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week -- making it the 10th straight week that jobless claims held above the 2 million mark.
The Citizenship and Immigration Services usually administers the oath of citizenship to an average of about 63,000 applicants per month. Critics of the Trump administration say there has been no detectable urgency to get citizenship processing back on track in time for state voter registration deadlines this fall. Election news also focuses on mail-in-voting and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden's pandemic strategy.
The House returned to Washington, D.C. for an abbreviated two-day session, but not all lawmakers were traditionally "present." Democrats say they are trying to strike a balance between keeping their colleagues safe and doing their duty. But Republicans are suing over the practice, deeming it unconstitutional. In other news from Capitol Hill: the White House wants a "surprise billing" fix in next relief bill; Democrats defend Planned Parenthood's small-business loans; congressional leaders express alarm over the deportation of migrant children; and more.
As scientists dig further into the mutations of the virus in those early days of the outbreak, they are having to quickly revise theories as they go. The latest development is that the early cases in the country weren't part of the contact chain that led to the outbreak on the West Coast because the mutations are different. In other scientific news: novel coronavirus unlikely to go away; a look at where herd immunity stands; the risk of contacting it from surfaces; the virus' origin; and more.
Media outlets report on news from California, Texas, District of Columbia, New Mexico, Nevada, Michigan, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
Although New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and President Donald Trump have had a contentious relationship at times throughout the pandemic, Cuomo says he had a good talk with the president about a massive investment in train lines, bridges and other building projects to help the state's economy recover.
Are states really ready to reopen? The reality can look a lot different than what the data says. In other news: experts bemoan a decision to halt wide-spread antibody testing in Seattle; officials nervously eye emerging hot spots; a second peak looms dangerously as states reopen; advocates call for more wastewater testing; and more.
During the pandemic, President Donald Trump has threatened to overrule governors, shut down Twitter and generally exercise authority the president doesn't have. Trump was enraged after Twitter added fact check links to his tweets about mail-in-voting, and officials say he's preparing an executive order intended to curtail the legal protections that shield social media companies from liability for what gets posted on their platforms.
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