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Tennessee senator mocked for saying residents want a wall on ‘our’ border

Republicans return to immigration fears ahead of midterms

The Independent UK

COVID-19, overdoses pushed US to highest death total ever

Federal data confirms that 2021 was the deadliest year in U.S. history

The Independent UK

The clues are in the poop: COVID-19 sewage testing is coming to Philly

PHILADELPHIA — While COVID-19 cases in Philadelphia are rising to the point that the city will reimpose a mask mandate, a different metric heralded the uptick a few weeks earlier in other parts of the country. The clues were in poop.

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Mask rule for planes and trains still up in the air

How much longer will airline travelers and subway riders have to wear face masks

The Independent UK

Why did the CDC get so much about Covid-19 wrong?

In this edition of Inverse Daily, find out about the consequences of the CDC and the WHO's initial Covid-19 messaging, an interstellar meteor dividing the science community, and more.

Inverse

Axios-Ipsos poll: Most Americans say COVID is no longer a crisis

People hold a rosier view of the trajectory of infections and illness than the CDC data shows.

Axios

Extending the Mask Mandate for Air Travel 'Absolutely on the Table' Says White House COVID-19 Czar

"I know the CDC is working to develop a scientific framework," says Ashish K. Jha

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CDC eases COVID travel assessment for Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Haiti

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday eased its COVID-19 travel ratings for Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and Haiti.

Reuters

Biden official: Mask mandate for airplanes could be extended

Ashish Jha, the White House's new COVID-19 response coordinator, said an extension is "absolutely on the table."

Axios

Shanghai to ease lockdown despite surge in Covid cases

China’s most populous city to allow ‘appropriate activity’ in areas where there have been no cases for at least two weeks

The Guardian - UK

Why Black and Hispanic seniors are left with a less powerful flu vaccine

At Whitman-Walker Health, Dr. David Fessler and his staff administer high-dose influenza vaccine to all HIV-positive and senior patients. Although the vaccine is roughly three times as expensive as standard flu vaccine, it seems to do a better job at protecting those with weakened immune systems — a major focus…

Tribune News Service

Your urgent international travel questions answered by Simon Calder

Flight connections, baggage stress, tropical islands and cut-price dollars

The Independent UK

Psaki accuses Republicans of holding Covid funding ‘hostage’ over immigration demand

‘We need this Covid funding, and it’s really a huge disappointment to us that the Congress has left for two weeks without passing this into law’

The Independent UK

COVID could be surging in the US right now and we might not even know it

The rise of COVID cases in some regions of the U.S., just as testing efforts wane, has raised the specter that the next major wave of the virus may be difficult to detect. In fact, the country could be in the midst of a surge right now and we might…

Tribune News Service

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The Guardian - US

Millions of bird deaths as US hit by avian flu outbreak

US officials believe nearly 24m poultry birds, mostly chickens and turkeys, have died of flu since virus strain identified in February

The Independent UK

Decade after hepatitis outbreak, medical registry might end

A decade after New Hampshire stopped a traveling medical technician who had been stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C, the Legislature might eliminate a registration system aimed at preventing similar misconduct

Ballotpedia

Twenty-one states sue Biden administration over public transport mask mandate

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R), joined by 20 Republican and Democratic attorneys general, filed a lawsuit on March 29, 2022, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida that aims to end the Biden administration’s federal mask mandate for public transport. The mandate, issued by…

Inverse

Overconfidence kills: The CDC and WHO still haven’t learned how to effectively communicate uncertainty

Public health organizations took too long to acknowledge that Covid-19 was airborne — and it cost many lives.

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Tribune News Service

Pelosi’s infection brings COVID-19 closer than ever to Biden

President Joe Biden spent an hour with Nancy Pelosi in the two days before she tested positive for COVID-19, including an embrace and a kiss on the cheek — yet the White House insisted Thursday he doesn’t qualify as a “close contact” of the House speaker.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: The anti-vaxxers' campaign against public health advocates gets scarier and more rabid

Last December, we reported on the threatening behavior of a group of anti-vaccine activists toward Kristina Lawson, the president of the Medical Board of California.

ABC News

Nancy Pelosi tests positive for COVID after White House events with US President Joe Biden

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is currently asymptomatic, according to her spokesman, despite testing positive for COVID-19 a day after appearing unmasked at a White House event with President Joe Biden.

ABC News

Key takeaways from Senate COVID-19 committee final report

From lockdowns, to the international border closure and the vaccine rollout, a Senate committee has been scrutinising the government's response to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. Here are some of the main points from its final report.

Tribune News Service

‘Stomach flu’ on the rise again in US. 5 things to know about noroviruses

While COVID-19 cases continue to drop in the U.S., outbreaks of another virus — the stomach flu — are ramping up, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

Al Jazeera

As Title 42 winds down, aid groups prepare for shift at US border

Migrant advocates and lawyers expect more people to arrive at US-Mexico border ahead of restrictive policy’s end in May.

Benzinga

Why Did FDA Pull Authorization For GSK-Vir's COVID-19 Therapy? Read Here

The U.S. health regulator said GlaxoSmithKline Plc (NYSE:GSK) and Vir Biotechnology Inc's (NASDAQ:VIR) antibody therapy was no longer authorized as a COVID-19 treatment. The decision was made as the CDC now estimates that the proportion of Covid-19 cases caused by BA.2 is above 50% nationwide. "Sotrovimab is no longer authorized to treat COVID-19 in any…

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