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A Dallas Morning News investigation prompted the Texas Rangers to stop using hypnosis techniques during questioning. Elsewhere, Florida campaigners resist new medical THC level limits, and a knee surgery lawsuit in Missouri is settled.
News outlets look ahead to the future of the virus, as well as back at which predictions made a year ago held up and which ones did not.
Some health systems still brought in more money in 2020 than in 2019. Meanwhile, many hospitals have decided to keep administrative changes that they came up with on the fly during the pandemic.
Texas may be getting too few vaccine doses due to outdated population statistics; Florida's eligibility restrictions may be holding back the roll-out and a group of patients in Virginia were accidentally given empty-syringe shots.
A Cigna study suggests patients who recover from covid may present with multiple ongoing conditions, including neurological ones. Meanwhile investigations continue into whether infections in cancer, HIV patients contributed to virus variants.
In the "news that just keeps getting better" department, Pfizer's vaccine also offers more protection than earlier thought against symptomatic covid, reaching 97%, according to real-world data.
At least one study has shown no significant difference in covid infection rates among K-12 students and staff when other measures such as universal masking were implemented.
As vaccinations begin to have an impact, New York will remove quarantine rules for out-of-state visitors, and Oklahoma no longer requires mask-wearing in state buildings. These moves, and others, come as reports say more Americans are going outside their homes than before.
Lower infection statistics for the pandemic suggest the worst is over, but just as a flare-up happens in Nevada and new variant cases pop up, some experts remark that this is not the time to behave as if the battle is won.
Without intervention, Medicare faces mandatory 2% spending cuts under sequestration now that the latest stimulus bill has been enacted. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says the chamber will vote next week on a measure to reset the pay-as-you-go amounts.
The Biden administration had asked the justices to put off March 29 oral arguments on a consolidated pair of cases, telling the Supreme Court that they are in the process of unwinding the relevant Trump administration policies allowing states to impose work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries.
The vote to discharge California Attorney General Xavier Becerra's nomination was approved 51-48, with centrist Sens. Joe Manchin and Susan Collins backing the measure.
A formal ceremony will mark the win on Friday afternoon, but President Joe Biden didn't wait to sign the massive legislation once the paperwork was delivered. Next up: the White House plans a road show to promote the stimulus package's measures to the American public.
Directing states to open vaccinations to all adults by early May, President Joe Biden said in his first prime-time address that the U.S. could "not only mark our independence as a nation, but mark our independence from this virus" this coming July 4th.
While President Joe Biden's speech swung between pragmatic and hopeful notes, news outlets identified some exaggerated or misleading claims and numbers.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial pages confront these topics and others.
Opinion writers tackle the one-year anniversary of the pandemic and more.
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
Mexico nears legalizing personal cannabis use, with strict limits, as the lower house of Congress approved a decriminalization bill. Around the globe, the EU approves Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine, but Denmark pauses AstraZeneca vaccines over clotting worries.
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