First Edition: Feb. 18, 2021
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Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial pages focus on these pandemic topics and others.
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Bluebird Bio said a patient treated more than five years with its Lentiglobin gene therapy was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, and a second patient has myelodysplastic syndrome.
Read about the biggest pharmaceutical developments and pricing stories from the past week in KHN's Prescription Drug Watch roundup.
Georgia's Department of Education stated that the school system in Savannah did not allow teams to consider all components of students’ educational needs during periods of remote instruction. News is from Maine, California, and Florida, as well.
A spokeswoman for Amazon disputed the claims, saying the company cared “deeply about the health and safety” of its workers. In other public health news: a California tech executive apologizes for a superspreader event; the NBA copes with a covid outbreak; alcohol use is on the rise; and more.
In other health care industry news, the co-founders of Home Depot are teaming up on a new nationwide mental health network.
More than 2,000 cases exist in 48 states and most children recover, but cases have been increasing since October. News reports are on how covid impacts eyes, the immune system, and more.
Officials say passage of President Joe Biden's relief bill would greatly benefit federal efforts to identify and track variants, which are lagging behind other countries.
“No one should go to jail for a drug offense. No one should go to jail for the use of a drug, they should go to drug rehabilitation,” President Joe Biden said.
In an effort to keep people in their homes during the pandemic, the Biden administration extended the policies until June 30. A further extension of the eviction moratorium past March was not included in the action.
During a town hall in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden clarified his first 100-day plans: "I said open a majority of schools in K through eighth grade, because they’re the easiest to open, the most needed to be open in terms of the impact on children and families having to stay home."
Other news on the vaccine rollout is from New York, Georgia, Virginia, Iowa and elsewhere.
“We got [Pfizer and Moderna] to move up time because we used the National Defense Act to be able to help the manufacturing piece of it, to get more equipment,” President Joe Biden said of his administration's efforts to ramp up vaccine production.
Dr. Anthony Fauci also revised his previously more optimistic vaccination timeline to one more in line with President Joe Biden's estimate.
The Biden administration anticipates "widespread" disruptions to covid vaccine shipping due to a series of winter weather events.
About 90 people ages 18-30 are expected to participate in a "human challenge" that will take place in a hospital isolation unit in London, according to the Lancet. An ethics committee still needs to approve the trial. Other global news is from the E.U., France, Japan and Canada.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial writers weigh in on these pandemic topics and others.
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