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New variants make up about half of current U.S. covid cases according to the CDC. In other news, an OCD drug is touted as a potential covid treatment, and monoclonal antibodies are in the headlines again.
From June 1, Alaska will offer covid vaccines to tourists arriving or leaving from the state's four biggest airports. Meanwhile, vaccine rollouts elsewhere are struggling to reach some groups, and a celebrity-filled effort to promote vaccination hits the airwaves.
As signs of yet another covid surge materialize, doctors report more children and younger people with covid going to the hospital. Pennsylvania is now experiencing a surge as Colorado officials warn of one in that state.
In weekend interviews, Dr. Anthony Fauci also predicted that the pause on Johnson & Johnson's covid shot would be lifted, though perhaps with warnings or restrictions.
As of Sunday, 50% of all Americans over 18 have received at least one dose of a covid vaccine. Such progress can't come too soon, as the globe passes a tragic milestone of 3 million total coronavirus deaths.
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Each week, KHN finds longer stories for you to sit back and enjoy. This week's selections include stories on AIDS, the Oscars, gun violence, covid and more.
Opinion writers focus on these vaccine issues.
In other news, the WHO reports that the covid infection rate is approaching the highest levels seen since the pandemic began, and it also urged vaccine makers to temporarily release IP rights.
In other news, Florida and Missouri make legal moves to adjust Medicaid provision, a long-delayed report on Medicaid in Georgia is released, and West Virginia's governor signs a harm-reduction bill he'd been urged to veto by health professionals.
Education officials in Florida and Minnesota want to reduce mask use. In other news, anti-transgender laws are widely opposed in a new poll, and a call is made for more urgent care for women.
Pacira Biosciences sued Anesthesiology, claiming the medical journal disparaged its Exparel painkiller. Wall Street analysts think sales for the drug will nevertheless grow 50% this year. And cheating is alleged at Dartmouth's medical school, but it could be that the school doesn't understand computer technology.
Most recently, the Biden administration has moved against an exemption of a wide swath of medical devices and artificial intelligence tools from regulatory review and federal research that uses fetal tissue.
The “social infrastructure” items in the $2 trillion-plus bill may need to be narrowed, Politico reports. Meanwhile, it was a busy day of health care hearings on Capitol Hill.
Dr. Anthony Fauci thinks the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will get back on track. He sparred with Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan during a congressional hearing.
As Merck reports results for its anti-covid pill that are promising, if only in the early stages of infection, other researchers say the P1 variant from Brazil is more transmissible than others. Worries emerge about next-gen covid vaccines. And one study shows dogs can sniff out covid-positive urine.
At least 21 states have recorded at least a 10% rise in daily average positive covid cases. Overall, the U.S. has over 70,000 new covid cases a day. Hospitals are again getting stressed. (And two tigers in captivity in Virginia have tested positive.)
About 30% of American adults have been fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. Meanwhile, the list of colleges that require covid vaccination is growing.
Despite a study out of Oxford University showing the risk of blood clots is much higher with covid than with a vaccine against covid, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine continues to generate suspicion.
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