James Corden will quit his job as host of CBS’s “Late Late Show” nearly seven years later.
In today’s healthcare, the timeline for infant vaccines has become a little clearer. Mark the June calendar.
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FDA sets June date for conference on vaccines for children
The focus is on the vaccine timeline for young children.
On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a tentative June date for its advisory board to discuss the approval of the COVID-19 vaccine for infants, with a rough schedule for when approval will come. Provided.
The agency said it would set aside June 8, 21, and 22 for a meeting of the Advisory Board on Vaccines for Children Under Five, and will provide details once the applications from Pfizer and Moderna are complete.
The schedule suggests that vaccination approval for children under the age of 5 may come in June if everything goes according to plan.
Some parents are worried and waiting for vaccines for young children, and the timeline is repeatedly delayed.
Peter Marks, FDA’s chief vaccine officer, also told The Washington Post on Friday that he did not delay approval of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines and responded in part to Politico’s talk under consideration.
“I’m not going to delay things unnecessarily here,” Marks told the post. “The whole concept of this delay is not what we are trying to do.”
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Pelosi supports the strategy to connect Ukraine and aids COVID
COVID-19 aid in Congress is still deadlocked, but speakers Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) On Friday, he approved the idea of moving it by linking it to Ukrainian aid.
The strategy sees the popular Ukrainian support as a more controversial sweetener for medical funding that threatened to block the Republicans in a partisan battle over President Biden’s pandemic policy at the southern border. It is being considered by the leaders of the Senate Democratic Party.
Due to the impasse of immigrants, some Democrats have funded Ukraine and the coronavirus for fear of delaying important aid to confused Ukrainians, as Russian troops have escalated attacks in the East Donbus region. Warned against connecting.
Pelosi on Friday emphasized that negotiations are currently focused on the Senate rather than the House of Representatives. However, she also revealed that she wanted to package the two funding bills together for convenience.
“I’m all about it,” the speaker told reporters in the Capitol. “I think it’s very important. There’s an emergency here. I need COVID money. Time is important because I need Ukrainian money …. So we hope we can do that. ”
“This is called legislation,” she continued.
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The first case of avian influenza strain reported in the United States
A Colorado man was the first in the United States to test positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus and found a human case of avian influenza due to the current outbreak affecting commercial and backyard birds. became.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), men who tested positive for bird flu were directly exposed to poultry because they were involved in the selection of presumed virus-infected poultry. .. The only symptom he reported was fatigue for several days before he recovered.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) said in a statement that men who tested positive were under the age of 40, working on a farm in Montrose County, and were almost asymptomatic. Authorities said there are currently no known cases of the H5 virus spreading to people.
According to the CDC, the patient is currently in quarantine and treated with the flu antiviral drug oseltamivir. Others working in Colorado’s culling work have so far conducted negative tests, but have been retested with great care.
“We want to reassure our low risk of Coloradans,” said Rachel Herlihy, state epidemiologist at CDPHE.
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New positive COVID test
White House Communication Director Kate Bedingfield The COVID-19 test was positive on Friday. This indicates that the latest officials close to President Biden have been infected with the virus.
Bedingfield said on Twitter that he was not considered an intimate contact for Mr. Biden, who will attend the White House Correspondents’ Association supper on Saturday.
Bedingfield last saw Biden during a socially distant meeting on Wednesday. She tweeted that she was wearing an N-95 mask.
“Thanks to being fully vaccinated and boosted, I have only experienced mild symptoms. In line with the White House’s COVID-19 protocol, I work from home and have a five-day quarantine period. I will return to work directly at the end of the negative test, “Bedingfield tweeted.
Bedingfield is the latest White House official who tested positive for the virus as the number of cases across the country increased.
Vice President Harris tested positive earlier this week, with second gentleman Douglas Emhoff, spokesman Jen Psaki, and deputy spokesman Karine Jean-Pierre all infected with the virus in recent weeks.
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Overwrite evidence
On Friday, the House Select Subcommittee investigating the US coronavirus response involved how Trump administration officials were involved in COVID-19 guidance related to the faith-based community from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We have released new evidence detailing this.
In May 2020, the CDC sent guidance to the White House for faith-based communities.
In the email exchange shared by the sub-committee, executive officials, including then-White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, discussed the proposal and suggested editing.
Paul Ray, then administrator of the White House Information Regulatory Authority, wrote in part of the email exchange: In the attachment, I suggested some sections for deletion to address those concerns. … If these edits are acceptable to everyone, you can tell the CDC as early as possible that you are free to publish them, provided you hit the offensive points. ”
“Paul — Thank you for adding a colleague who was at the center of this effort, and thank you for working hard against the latest Mission Creep,” Conway replied.
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What we are reading
- The state that legalized marijuana is currently studying strong cannabis mental health risks (NBC News).
- As the number of elderly victims increases, the overwhelming deaths among unvaccinated people no longer occur (Washington Post).
- Kathrin Jansen, Pfizer Vaccine Chief, who led Covid’s efforts, retires (Stat)
State by state
- School employees will not absorb higher health insurance premiums than next year, thanks to federal, Texas teachers (Dallas Morning News)
- Planned Parenthood has temporarily suspended abortion services in Alabama, citing staffing issues (Montgomery Advertiser)
- LA County COVID-19 cases are still high, yet another variant is increasing (ABC 7)
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