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In another example of how we will live in the future: NASA’s project to deflect an asteroid, where it crashed a probe into a rocky area on target, was declared a success.
Today, in the field of fitness, the bivalent COVID-19 boosters expressed to omicron have been legal for use in children from the age of five, expanding the autumn and winter vaccination campaign.
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FDA Clears Boosters for Children Age 5 and Older
The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it has extended its emergency authorization for COVID-19 bivalent product recalls for children ages five to 11.
The FDA ruling grants Moderna’s request for authorization to administer its bivalent recall to children up to age 6 and grants Pfizer’s request to administer its own recall to children up to five years of age.
“Since children have returned to school in users and others are resuming their pre-pandemic behaviors and activities, there is an increased risk of exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19,” said Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for FDA. Evaluation and studies of biological products.
“Vaccination remains the ultimate effective measure to save you from the severe consequences of COVID-19, adding hospitalization and death,” Marks added.
Previously, Pfizer’s updated omicron-specific vaccine was the only legal bivalent vaccine for use in children, starting at age 12, while Moderna’s booster was only legal for others over the age of 18.
The FDA ruling is in line with what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in September, saying in documents that it planned a recall notice for young people from early to mid-October.
Following the FDA’s action, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky approved the vaccines for the younger population, paving the way for their distribution.
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Abortion, a tough motivator for Democrats
Good news for Democrats ahead of the midterm elections: Half of the U. S. electorate is still in the U. S. The U. S. Supreme Court said the Supreme Court ruling that struck down Roe v. Wade motivated them more to vote in this year’s election, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) poll.
About two-thirds of Democrats and some independents cited the Supreme Court ruling as motivation for voting, as did one-third of Republicans.
Democrats are betting that abortion will be motivation enough for them to stay in the House and Senate. Candidates focus much of their messaging on abortion rights and invest money in advertising focused on abortion.
Key statistic: Three-quarters of respondents said they plan to vote for applicants who need access to abortion, compared to 17% who said they plan to vote for applicants who need to restrict access to abortion.
In states where abortion is banned, 74% of the Democratic or Democratic-leaning electorate is more interested in voting, compared to only 35% of the Republican or Republican-leaning electorate.
But also: voters said they wanted to hear the candidates talk about the economy.
It’s a major factor for Republicans and independents.
The Democratic electorate was more divided; 28% said they were looking to hear about abortion and abortion rights, while 23% said they were looking to hear about economics from applicants.
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WARREN ACCUSES ABBOTT NUTRITION OF ONE-YEAR COVERAGE
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass. ) sent a letter Wednesday to Abbott Nutrition accusing the company of employing “abusive legal tactics” to cover up fitness hazards with its powdered infant formula product, protective considerations she says the company has had for decades. .
In the letter, one of the first editions provided exclusively to The Hill, Warren alleged that the company had used confidentiality agreements with families affected by infected infant formula.
“The use of competitive legal tactics and regulations that required families to ‘shut up’ played a role in restricting public wisdom about the physical health hazards of Cronobacter’s young children and protected his company from scrutiny even as client court cases and subpoenas through federal regulators increased. Warren wrote.
The senator said Abbott Nutrition has included cronobacter, a bacterium that can cause fatal infections in babies, in its powdered infant formula since 2003.
In 2011, Abbott Nutrition did its best to silence families after an outbreak led to several lawsuits against the company, it alleged in the letter.
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THE “DESERTS” OF MOTHERHOOD RISE THROUGH US: RESEARCH
According to new research, the number of maternity care “deserts” in the U. S. is still being found to be in the U. S. UU. se is expanding as pregnant women struggle to stay fit.
A report released Wednesday through the March of Dimes, a nonprofit that works for mother-baby fitness, says as many as 6. 9 million women nationwide have little or no access to maternal fitness care, impacting about 500,000 births in the country.
One problem:
The researchers found that 5% of counties had moved to less than they had for the organization’s 2020 report on the subject, while 3% of counties had moved to a higher Array point.
The number of maternity care deserts has also increased by 2% since 2020, totaling more than 1100 counties. Almost 16,000 more women do not have to care than they did two years ago.
The report says there are about 2. 2 million women of childbearing age in maternity deserts, while 4. 7 million in counties with limited access.
The researchers also found that more than 60 percent of maternal care deserts are in rural counties, where 7 percent of obstetric care providers practice.
Learn here.
Republican lawmakers in the state of Michigan have introduced a bill that would amend the state’s penal code to classify gender-affirming physical care for transgender youth as first-degree child abuse.
According to the bill filed Tuesday, a user would be convicted of first-degree child abuse, punishable by life in prison, if he or she “knowingly or intentionally” causes serious physical or intellectual harm to a child, in addition to helping a child download a “gender transition procedure. “
The bill was filed through state Reps. Ryan Berman, Steve Carra, Luke Meerman, Beau LaFave and Steve Marino, all Republicans.
The measure defines a “person” in this case as the child’s parent or a licensed health professional.
LaFave, in a phone call Wednesday with The Hill, said she believes offering prescription drugs and gender-affirming surgeries to other young people who are not legally willing to consent to sex is “logically inconsistent. “
“People are abusing those children,” he said. The concept that we would make potentially provocative adjustments to children aged 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 when it is illegal for them to have sex is crazy. 21
LaFave said he was confident a majority of Republicans in the state legislature would approve the measure. He added that he believed most Michigan Democrats ideologically agreed with him and the bill’s co-sponsors, but would threaten to damage their political careers if they released the measure. .
Republicans hold a three-seat majority in the Michigan House of Representatives.
Learn here.
WHAT WE READ
‘We’re struggling’: Study sounds alarm about covid effects (Washington Post)
Routine births become lucrative “emergency” events in hospitals that work with privately subsidized contracting companies (Fortune)
How Democratic men are focusing abortion on the path of crusade (The 19th News)
STATE BY STATE
More polio detected in New York City wastewater, according to knowledge (ABC News)
As Overdoses Rise, Rhode Island Adopts Addiction Strategy (The New York Times)
‘Separate and unequal’: Critics say Newsom’s costly Medicaid reforms leave patients as many as possible (Kaiser Health News)
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