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The president ratcheted up the pressure on companies to enact vaccination mandates. "If you're a business leader, a nonprofit leader, a state or local leader, who has been waiting for full FDA approval to require vaccinations, I call on you now to do that. Require it," he said.
Since it was first authorized for emergency use in December, Pfizer and BioNTech's shot has been administered to hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Its full approval by the FDA comes with the hope that it will encourage vaccine-hesitant Americans to finally get the jab.
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In other news, Latin American nations are offering boosters; the U.K. has launched a surveillance program to measure antibodies in people with covid; Lebanese hospitals have run out of everything; India approves the world's first DNA-based coronavirus vaccine; and more.
The ruling on Saturday overrode an earlier decision that had blocked Republican-backed legislation targeting Gov. Andy Beshear, and now lawmakers can move on his anti-covid restrictions. Tampa, Houston, Nebraska, Baltimore, Maryland are also in the news.
It's still poorly understood how SARS-CoV-2 attacks our bodies, and its effects on people vary widely. As Stat reports, a few lucky people seem to have hit the "biological lottery" with genes that are resistant to the virus no matter how much they are exposed to it.
The New York Times reports on why the health industry has been reluctant to comply with price transparency rules — including hospitals charging wildly different rates for similar procedures and insurers negotiating bad deals. Illumina, Google, SENS, Penn Medicine and more are also in the news.
Axios reports around 11% of American adults were uninsured in April 2021, similar to rates measured in March 2019 — despite layoffs, business closures and other pandemic changes. Health effects of climate change, maternal health, suicide risk levels and more are also in the news.
Data from a trial of an anti-covid therapy from AstraZeneca showed it reduced risk of developing symptomatic covid by up to 77%, Fox News says. The Washington Post reports on other monoclonal antibody treatments. Other reports highlight a push against treating covid with ivermectin.
A group of centrist Democrats are threatening to upend House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's roadmap for advancing the $1 trillion infrastructure package and $3.5 trillion budget plan.
Misinformation is "happening largely, in part, aided and abetted by social media platforms," Dr. Vivek Murthy said Sunday. Facebook's most-viewed article in 2021 hinted that a covid vaccine was involved in a doctor's death, but Facebook withheld a report revealing this, The New York Times reported.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says federal money can't be blocked to school districts that opt for a mask mandate in states where a governor is pressuring against such moves.
Across the nation, hospitals are reporting that admitted patients are trending younger than in any of the previous covid surges — partly due to many older people being vaccinated as well as the transmissibility of delta variant.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says the number of covid cases is "deeply concerning" and that the ceiling on delta-driven cases is unknown. Meanwhile, Politico reports on efforts taxed hospitals and states are taking to retain and attract health personnel.
The surgeon general acknowledged on ABC's "This Week" that giving booster shots could "take away" from the global vaccine supply. But he stressed that the Biden administration's recent efforts to bolster the global supply would ensure there isn't a shortage.
The FDA announced full approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech covid vaccine. As one Ohio health official said, "It takes away from a certain number of people the argument it's not approved. That's been their argument of not getting it. Now we're eliminated that."
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