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Employees of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office posed as customers looking for health insurance. Some of the sales representatives refused to let GAO employees see the policy documents before they agreed to buy it.
Seth Lookhart of Alaska was also ordered not to practice medicine during his 10-year probation once he’s released from prison, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
Researchers at the University of Florida collected three 3-hour air samples from a room on a dedicated COVID-19 ward that was well ventilated, with six air exchanges per hour and triple-filter treatment of air returned to the room, CIDRAP reports.
Justices will participate remotely when arguments begin Oct. 5. Six of the nine justices are 65 or older, putting them at higher risk for COVID-19.
Slow-moving Hurricane Sally flooded cities in Alabama and Florida on Wednesday while residents of California, Oregon and Washington continued to choke on hazardous air.
“So let me be clear, I trust vaccines. I trust the scientists. But I don’t trust Donald Trump — and the American people can’t either," Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said, charging President Donald Trump with politicizing the rapid COVID-19 vaccine development ahead of the November election.
An Army National Guard major who was on the ground in D.C. the day protesters were violently dispersed discusses considerations weighed to use more dangerous controls.
A whistleblower said she heard from several women that they'd had hysterectomies and didn't know why. A detained immigrant said, "It was like they're experimenting with our bodies."
Republican and White House negotiators have been holding firm on spending only $1 trillion on COVID relief. In a tweet Wednesday, President Donald Trump said "much higher numbers" should be on the table.
HHS announced that its top communications official, Trump appointee Michael Caputo, will take a 60-day medical leave after falsely accusing CDC scientists of "sedition" and news reporting that he and a scientific adviser Caputo brought in, Paul Alexander, worked to modify the agency's COVID science reports. Alexander is permanently leaving HHS.
While defending his administration's handling of the pandemic in comparison to other nations, President Donald Trump said: "If you take the blue states out we're at a level that I don't think anybody in the world would be at."
The draft plan for starting to deliver a coronavirus vaccine within 24 hours of any federal approval was unveiled by the CDC. The agency says it will need $6 billion from Congress to execute the ambitious proposal.
CDC Director Robert Redfield told senators Wednesday that a coronavirus vaccine would not be widely available until the next summer or fall and that masks are an effective tool to combat spread. At a press conference hours later, President Donald Trump contradicted both of those statements, calling Redfield "confused."
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Other places in the news include Louisiana, Michigan, New York, Illinois, the District of Columbia, Texas, Oklahoma and the Navajo Nation.
Since New York passed its law, two other states – Delaware and Minnesota – enacted similar measures, and other states are considering the approach, Stat reports.
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