‘People Are Going to Die’; Monkeypox in Exposed Health Worker; 15,000 Nurses Strike

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Atlanta Medical Center employees spoke out after officials announced the hospital’s closing, which houses one of the city’s two level 1 trauma units: “People are going to die behind this.” (Fox 5 Atlanta)

A recent death in Los Angeles County has been confirmed as being attributed to monkeypox, the public health department there said.

Also in Los Angeles County, the nation’s first monkeypox case in a healthcare worker exposed on the job has been reported. (Los Angeles Times)

The U.S. has been added to the World Health Organization’s list of countries with circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus, the CDC said.

FDA has revised its authorization for the Novavax COVID shot to include myocarditis and pericarditis to its Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reporting requirement.

Here’s how to get a crying baby to sleep — and why it works. (Current Biology)

Americans’ concern about COVID is at its lowest point since the pandemic started, even as the virus continues to circulate, the final Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index poll reported.

Are some people naturally immune to COVID? (Wired)

Hospital appointments and surgeries are being cancelled Monday for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, despite growing hospital waiting lists. (The Guardian)

For the second time, a federal judge dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit accusing drugmaker Novartis of paying kickbacks to doctors through a sham speaker program to promote fingolimod (Gilenya) for multiple sclerosis. (Reuters)

Half of people completing an online survey said they feared repercussions if they were open about their mental health at work. (CNBC)

The largest private-sector nursing strike in U.S. history, involving 15,000 nurses, continues to its third day in Minnesota. (Minnesota Public Radio)

A new rule restricts transgender people born in Montana from amending the gender listed on their birth certificates. (AP)

Heat wave warning systems are falling short in the U.S. — here’s why. (NPR)

Driven by pandemic policies, child poverty dropped in 2021 while health insurance coverage crept up, according to new data from the Census Bureau.

A fetal alcohol researcher testified that Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s birth mother drank more during her pregnancy than any woman he’s ever seen, well exceeding the standards that grossly endanger a fetus. (AP)

Here’s how hospitals of the future might be designed flexibly to better cope with pandemics. (New York Times)

Why do so many kids need glasses now? (The Atlantic)

Somalia is facing the world’s first famine of this century, with half a million kids under 5 expected to endure severe malnutrition. (Reuters)