Mass Hospital Layoffs; Pfizer CEO Has COVID Again; 'Blood on Your Hands'

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Rising labor costs, more expensive supplies, and the pandemic's financial disruptions at hospitals and health systems. (Fierce Healthcare)

One of the largest nonprofit health systems in the country billed patients who , and then sent their cases to collection agencies if they couldn't pay. (New York Times)

An Arizona judge brought an , effectively banning all abortions in the state except to save the life of the pregnant person. (Politico)

Uganda's , with another 18 expected to have had the disease as well. (Reuters)

The CDC for universal masking in hospitals and nursing homes outside of areas of "high" community transmission.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, PhD, said on Twitter that he , less than 2 months after announcing .

Pfizer/BioNTech are for their Omicron-specific booster vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 years. Meanwhile, Moderna for its booster in kids 6 to 17 years. (Reuters, CNBC)

As of Monday at 8:00 a.m. EDT, toll in the U.S. reached 96,071,001 cases and 1,056,416 deaths, increases of 412,724 and 2,996, respectively, since this time a week ago.

A World Health Organization official said rich nations if they ease up on COVID and another massive wave arrives. (Reuters)

Europe's best known immunologist thinks his mRNA booster , so he published a paper about it. (The Atlantic)

Women undergoing in vitro fertilization may be at greater risk for hypertension during pregnancy are used. (Hypertension)

are hitting snags in a rapidly changing landscape of state laws. (NPR)

Battleground gubernatorial races could for millions across the U.S. (Politico)

Travel nurses say in with high hourly pay, and then slashed their wages once they began work. (Newsweek)

An for Elijah McClain now lists overdose by ketamine as the cause of death; the Black massage therapist was detained by police before paramedics injected him with the tranquilizer. (NBC News)

In Oregon, fatal overdoses are up and addiction rates still high that decriminalized drug possession and aimed to get more people into treatment. (AP)

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) insurers who keep "ghost networks" -- lists of providers that don't actually provide care. (Fierce Healthcare)

Thoracic surgeons are debating just how much of a for early-stage lung cancers. (STAT)

Language in medical records and change the course of medical care. (Kaiser Health News)

A Pennsylvania man faces federal charges for assaulting a twice, the Department of Justice announced.

The FDA -- the most serious kind -- on certain Philips bi-level positive airway pressure (BiPAP) devices over a plastic issue that could expose patients to chemicals of concern.

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    Sophie Putka is an enterprise and investigative writer for . Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Discover, Business Insider, Inverse, Cannabis Wire, and more. She joined in August of 2021.