A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crashed in Huntsville, Alabama, killing two members of the Tennessee National Guard, with the cause of the crash yet to be determined.
A surveillance program developed by the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is now being implemented across clinics and hospitals throughout the nation.
"One thing we have to consider, and we believe the intelligence community is considering as an explanation, is that these could be balloons tied to commercial or research entities and therefore totally benign," Kirby said.
The bill will both "Ensure that health care facilities that discriminate against patients based on their COVID-19 vaccination status are barred from receiving federal funds" and "Protect vulnerable patients’ right to make their own private health care decisions without being penalized for making those decisions."