Infections

Mask mandates will be enforced to enter the “patient areas” of New York City’s 11 public hospitals and all of the nursing homes and health clinics also run by the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that patients treated at hospitals owned by private equity firms were more likely to experience adverse events than those treated at hospitals not owned by private equity firms.

Hospitals across the United States have begun implementing mask mandates amid an increase in respiratory infections.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating the cancer treatment CAR-T after it was notified of new blood cancers among individuals who received the treatment.

Republican Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), J.D. Vance (R-OH), Rick Scott (R-FL), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Mike Braun (R-IN) sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to "immediately restrict travel between the United States and the PRC."

A report released by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) alleged that the man behind the biological laboratory found in California is connected to the CCP.

Around 450 patients of the endoscopy unit at Salem Hospital in Massachusetts are reportedly at risk of HIV, Hepatitis C, and Hepatitis A after they were administered “possibly contaminated IVs over a period of two years.”

A new French study discovered that using Hydroxychloroquine significantly reduced the mortality rates of COVID in patients.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that only 3.5% of all Americans received the latest COVID-19 vaccine.

A study published in the JAMA Network Open found that children are more likely to spread COVID-19 among household contacts than at childcare centers.