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The Washington Post reports that President Joe Biden will announce that Merck & Co. will help boost the Johnson & Johnson supply -- a rare partnership between pharmaceutical rivals. Meanwhile, the first doses of the newly approved vaccine will be administered today.
Houston hit an undesirable jackpot by being the first city in the U.S. to report infections from all the major known coronavirus variants.
A group of House Democratic leaders wrote a four-page letter asking the Biden administration to be more specific about how to keep people safe, especially in the workplace. They say the CDC's official guidelines downplay the risk of the aerosol spread of covid-19.
The social media giant is stepping up its efforts to combat covid-19 vaccine misinformation. In additional to labeling false material, Twitter announced an escalating 5-strike policy for repeated violations.
"Please hear me clearly—at this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained. These variants are a very real threat to our people and our progress," Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
Ongoing lockdowns and restrictions throw a spotlight on young people's fraying mental health. Meanwhile readers in our Letters to the Editor section give advice for our pandemic times.
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Passengers to the U.S. arriving from Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo will be sent to six airports so the CDC can track them. News is also from Canada, China and elsewhere.
News on recreational use of marijuana is from New York and Massachusetts, as well. Media outlets also report on loosening of covid restrictions, a paid sick leave bill and more.
The storm forced closures of drive-up and walk-in donation sites. Media outlets report on harms caused by sometimes-smokers, Tampa Bay prepping for spring break, and more.
In New York, data released last week show that nurses filed 26,219 complaints to hospital and nursing home managers about understaffing in 2019 and 2020.
Cigna, which has been a longtime investor in MDLive, will wrap it into Evernorth’s portfolio of health services, Stat reports. The deal was announced Friday.
The treatment is a cocktail of monoclonal antibodies that combines bamlanivimab with a second drug known as etesevimab. The cocktail received emergency use authorization in February.
There should be no additional cost sharing for diagnostic covid-19 testing even if a person has no symptoms or was not exposed, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in new guidance to group health plans.
One such variant -- the P.1 that is believed to have emerged first in Brazil -- has British health officials on the hunt for a missing person believed to be infected by it.
Automatic PAYGO cuts to Medicare, student loan and farm subsidy programs would be triggered by the $1.9 billion stimulus package, the Congressional Budget Office says. Lawmakers could override the funding cuts, but that gives Republicans a bargaining chip as the Senate considers the legislation.
President Joe Biden and health officials from his administration are warning Americans to not drop their guard again on covid-19, especially now that infections are starting to rise again after weeks of decline.
The executive order, which Gov. Ron DeSantis signed late Friday, specifies that people must be deemed "extremely vulnerable" by their physician. The order provided little information about how the process would work, but other states have asked people for a doctor’s note.
The good news is that the pace is picking up and more mass vaccination sites are opening to bump up the volume. But many sign-up hurdles remain.
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