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Panel rejects $1M payouts to inmates given vaccine overdoses

Panel rejects $1M payouts to inmates given vaccine overdoses

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Panel rejects $1M payouts to inmates given vaccine overdoses

The 52 inmates who each sought a $1 million payment were among 77 prisoners at the Iowa State Penitentiary who had been given overdoses of the Pfizer vaccine.

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Pfizer's COVID vaccine for children under 5 is 73% effective

The new update analyzed COVID-19 diagnoses between March and June in Pfizer’s ongoing study of the three-dose vaccine.
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COVID vaccines for fall: Pfizer seeks OK of updated boosters

For now at least, the BA.5 omicron variant currently is causing nearly all COVID-19 infections in the U.S., and much of the world.
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Biden administration launches new push to get people boosted

Initiatives will include direct outreach to high-risk groups, especially seniors, encouraging them to get COVID-19 booster shots.

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MercyOne Central Iowa health services disrupted by IT issue

MercyOne's parent company CommonSpirit Health is dealing with a security issue, causing the shutdown of their e-health records and several other systems.
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Des Moines Public Schools to add naloxone to all buildings

The Des Moines Public School Board voted unanimously to have at least 2 stocked doses of Narcan in each DMPS building.

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North Korea continues missile launches as US redeploys carrier

The launch came two days after North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan for the first time in five years.
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Climate change made summer drought 20 times more likely

Scientist say this severe of a drought would only happen once every 400 years across the Northern Hemisphere if not for human-caused climate change.