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The small study in Nature Medicine reports that the response in children is not Kawasaki disease. Research news is on training dogs to sniff out COVID, making science reading easier, and more.
In other public health news: victims of the Golden State Killer confront him in court; a visually impaired person describes how to improve the movie-watching experience; and more.
As reopening schools and businesses join hospitals and government agencies in efforts to procure masks, gloves, thermometers and other protective equipment, inventory is bottoming out in the U.S.
And only 16% of the health misinformation had a warning label placed on it, researchers say.
In Dallas, health experts are seeing an increase in young patients with stomach issues. News outlets report on parents going it alone, learning pods and other issues, as well.
Other pharmaceutical companies in the news include Teva, Reliance and Netmeds.
To go along with it, more facilities are creating telehealth leadership roles in their C-suites, as well.
Notre Dame, waiting to see if it's necessary to send students home, has linked the cases to non-mask-wearing at off-campus gatherings. News on higher education is from North Carolina, as well.
“We need to prevent vaccine nationalism,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. “Sharing finite supplies strategically and globally is actually in each country’s national interest. No one is safe until everyone is safe.”
Minorities are underrepresented in the nation's first large-scale clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine, federal data show. And efficacy for kids and women who are pregnant is also unknown since neither group is yet tested.
A draft of the measure, obtained by The New York Times, proposes funding levels and corporate liability protections that have been sticking points in previous stimulus negotiations with Democrats.
On the heels of a bumpy takeover of hospital COVID-19 data, President Donald Trump wants the Department of Health and Human Services to overhaul federal collection of state and local public health information. And HHS offers up its 10-year plan to address the nation's top public health issues.
Under public pressure, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy suspends efforts to remove equipment or cut hours until after the election. But postal union leaders say that dismantled machines and removed collection boxes are not likely to be restored to handle the pandemic-fueled flood of mail-in ballots.
“People in their 20s, 30s and 40s are increasingly driving the spread,” said Takeshi Kasai, the WHO’s Western Pacific regional director, warning that those cases spill over to more vulnerable populations. The alert comes while U.S. schools trying to reopen report infections.
Nodding to a hot-button issue at the Democrats' virtual convention, presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would "provide a Medicare-like option as a public option." Catch up on Tuesday's other highlights and a night one fact check.
The South Dakota Department of Health said one person who spent several hours at a bar on Main Street has tested positive and may have spread it to others at t eh South Dakota motorcycle rally. Maine, New Jersey and Illinois are also in the news.
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