Health

Time - “Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, about half of the states have imposed abortion bans, with 12 banning abortion entirely. These bans are causing established doctors to leave and future doctors to increasingly steer clear of those states,” writes Atul Grover, a physician and former Executive Director of the Research and Action Institute at the Association of American Medical Colleges.  Grover explains the brewing doctor shortage and what the stakes are if abortion bans continue to drive doctors away. More 

NPR - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices starts meeting today to discuss vaccine recommendations. The committee’s decisions have a significant influence on who will have access to COVID vaccines this fall and whether babies get vaccinated against Hepatitis B. Many health and medical experts are paying close attention to what comes from the meeting because the Trump administration recently changed all of the committee members...

The three items on the agenda are COVID vaccines, Hepatitis B vaccines for children and the MMRV vaccine, which covers measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox, NPR’s Pien Huang tells Up First. Health experts are worried that when the committee votes, they could recommend limits that would make it harder for people to receive the COVID shots. The Hepatitis B and MMRV vaccines have been given to children for years, and questions about them seemed to be settled. But the committee has raised concerns about them. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a former CDC vaccine official, says, “This is established science that they’re attacking.”