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How a combination of COVID lawsuits and media coverage keeps misinformation churning

Public health has had its day in court lately. And another day. And another day.

Tribune News Service

When it comes to preventing COVID-19 deaths, 'how we feel about each other matters'

LOS ANGELES — The United States has the dubious distinction of suffering the highest COVID-19 mortality rate among the world's high-income countries. But that national average — 372 deaths per 100,000 people as of last summer — hides the fact that pandemic outcomes differed greatly from state to state.

Los Angeles Times

FDA’s own reputation could be restraining its misinfo fight

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking aim at a new health hazard: online misinformation

The Independent UK

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Abortion, Medicaid highlight state health ballot tests

Some of the most high-profile health care battles are being decided at the state level on Tuesday.

Axios

Biden faces winter COVID surge as funds, public interest dry up

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is urging a vaccination push as he braces for a winter wave of COVID-19 cases that could again drive up hospitalizations and deaths, but this time without a blank check to fight the surge.

Tribune News Service

Amid the chaos, the WHO’s Tedros plans for the next pandemic

While Tedros has yet to catch the virus, his life, at the centre of the pandemic, has been infected by the chaos and conspiracy Covid-19 has created, writes Adam Taylor

The Independent UK

WHO director in Asia accused of racism, abuse put on leave

The World Health Organization’s top director in the Western Pacific, Dr. Takeshi Kasai, has been indefinitely removed from his post, according to internal correspondence

The Independent UK

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As global health threats evolved, the CDC didn't

Vanquishing disease is in the DNA of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal agency that in its first decade of existence oversaw the eradication of smallpox, the elimination of malaria and the stamping out of polio as threats to Americans' health.

Los Angeles Times

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK

WHO declares monkeypox a global emergency amid surge in cases

WHO declares monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries a ‘public health emergency of international concern’.

Al Jazeera

US President Joe Biden signs executive order aimed to protect women's access to abortion

The US President signs an executive order designed to protect millions of American women's access to abortion in states where the procedure remains legal, and becomes emotional while speaking about the reported experience of a 10-year-old rape victim forced to travel interstate for the procedure.

ABC News

Impassioned Biden signs executive order on abortion access

The actions are intended to mitigate some potential penalties that women seeking abortion may face after the ruling, but his order cannot restore access to abortion in states where limits or bans have gone into effect.

Chicago Sun-Times

The week the supreme court reshaped America: ‘We’re being hurled back decades’

Momentous decisions on abortion, guns, the environment and religion have left many wondering: what next?

The Guardian - US

Defining "life-threatening" can be tricky in abortion law exceptions

The murky wording of some of laws could create confusion and put pregnant women's lives at risk, experts say.

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Tribune News Service

Supreme Court’s Roe ruling tees up fight over abortion pills

The U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning federal abortion rights sets the stage for conservative states to drastically limit access to a pill used to end early pregnancies.

The National (Scotland)

US abortion rights ruling ‘sad day for court and country’, says Joe Biden

PRESIDENT Joe Biden has said “it’s a sad day for the court and the country” after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade – the landmark…

The Independent UK

Abortion ruling to test Biden's political, policy plans

The U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade will test President Joe Biden's ability to preserve abortion access

The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

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Los Angeles Times

With old-school technology, can Novavax win over COVID vaccine skeptics?

Since their debut just 18 months ago, three COVID-19 vaccines have saved an estimated 2.2 million American lives, changed the trajectory of a pandemic and inspired all manner of conspiracy theories.

Tribune News Service

Sweeping, limited or no powers at all? What’s at stake in the mask mandate appeal

The definition of “sanitation.” An old court case that involves an underwear manufacturer. Whether people had a fair chance to express their opinions about wearing masks on planes.

The Independent UK

Abortion adds to Biden's all-but-impossible to-do list

President Joe Biden is under pressure to preserve access to abortion, but he has few good options to do it

WEKU

The 1944 law behind the CDC's authority

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lawrence Gostin, professor of public health law at Georgetown, about the Public Health Service Act — which authorizes the CDC to set measures to combat disease spread.

Reason

If the CDC's Mask Mandate Is 'Necessary for the Public Health,' Why Didn't the DOJ Seek a Stay To Restore It?

The Biden administration's main priority seems to be leaving the agency's authority vague enough to allow future interventions.

Tribune News Service

Judge’s ruling on the CDC mask mandate highlights the limits of the agency’s power

The role that the federal government plays in containing future epidemics will hinge on the outcome of an appeal of last week’s court ruling that overturned the mask mandate for travelers on airlines, trains and the nation’s mass transit systems.

The Independent UK

Boston urges masks as battle brews over transit rule

Boston has urged people to start wearing masks and the Biden administration is weighing its next legal step in a court fight over the abrupt end of the national mask mandate on airplanes and mass transit

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