Vax Approval Ushers in Mandates; Pandemic to End Next Spring? Kids’ Infections Spike

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Following FDA’s approval of Pfizer/BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine, the Pentagon moved up its timetable to make vaccination mandatory for all active duty service members. (AP)

How did the companies settle on the name Comirnaty for their vaccine anyhow? (NPR)

New York City’s public school system mandated the vaccine for all of its nearly 150,000 employees. (Gothamist)

Meanwhile, healthcare workers in Staten Island are protesting their hospital’s COVID vaccine or regular testing requirement. (CNN)

NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, said that if most eligible people get vaccinated, the U.S. could get COVID-19 under control by spring of 2022. (CNN)

Israel lowered the age for booster shots to 30, while the country sees hints that the campaign is making a dent in the Delta surge. (Reuters)

As of Tuesday at 8 a.m. EDT, the unofficial COVID-19 toll in the U.S. was 37,941,620 cases and 629,564 deaths, increases of 230,461 and 1,060, respectively, from this time yesterday.

More than 180,000 new COVID-19 infections were recorded among U.S. kids last week, according to a joint report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.

As kids head back to school, they’re bringing home breakthrough COVID-19 infections to their vaccinated parents. (NPR)

Case surges in Oahu have sparked officials to impose restrictions on gatherings, limiting outdoor events to 25 people and indoor events to 10, and Hawaii’s governor is asking tourists to stay away. (KHON2, AP)

Hospitalizations in Oregon, which are mainly among the unvaccinated, have reached their highest levels since the start of the pandemic. (AP)

Most Americans who test positive for COVID-19 are legally restricted from knowing which variant they’re infected with. (Business Insider)

Some people are ‘resistant’ to COVID-19, despite clear exposure. These scientists are asking why. (STAT)

Approximately 38 million digital records on Microsoft’s Power Apps portals — including data on contact tracing and vaccine status — were mistakenly exposed to the open internet. (Wired)

Flash floods in Tennessee over the weekend have left at least 21 people dead; others remain missing. (CNN)

At least six U.S. states have not joined the proposed $26 billion settlement with three drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson over the companies’ role in the opioid crisis. (Reuters)

Life expectancy in Costa Rica is higher than it is in the U.S. — an emphasis on public health might be the secret. (The New Yorker)

Novartis said its CAR T-cell therapy tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah) failed to improve event-free survival as a second-line treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients with aggressive disease.