According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fewer than 6,000 people in the U.S. have contracted COVID-19 after receiving a vaccine. That’s out of some 84 million people who have been fully vaccinated. (CNBC Weekly)
The Biden administration has removed Trump-era restrictions on the use of fetal tissue for medical research. Revised National Institutes of Health rules will allow researchers to use tissue from abortions to develop therapies for diseases like cancer, AIDS and COVID-19. (The New York Times)
Vice President Kamala Harris called for the U.S. to address its Black maternal health crisis and broader racial disparities. Black women are about three times more likely to die during childbirth than white women. (STAT)
The Food and Drug Administration placed a clinical hold on Anixa Biosciences’ and Moffit Cancer Center’s next-gen CAR-T therapy for ovarian cancer. The biotech had announced in 2019 that the therapy would require more vector engineering work. (Endpoints News)
Relief money funneled into public health during the pandemic may dry up in coming years, continuing a boom/bust funding cycle, health officials said. If budgets are again slashed after the pandemic abates, the U.S. could return to its previous level of unpreparedness for health crises. (Kaiser Health News)
