Elizabeth Cohen was enthralled as she watched Dr.
Anthony Fauci receive his coronavirus vaccine on live TV.
National Institutes of Health Director
Francis Collins and Secretary of Health and Human Services
Alex Azar joined Fauci Tuesday in Maryland as they received their first dose of Moderna’s Covid vaccine. The vaccination of the three leading health officials marks the last round of major public figures who’ve been inoculatedon camera to build up public trust in the vaccines’ safety.
CNN took the vaccinations live, and when
Poppy Harlow asked Cohen for her reaction to Fauci’s shot, she was quite impressed.
Taiwan reports its 1st domestic COVID-19 case since April
A locally transmitted case of COVID-19 has been reported in Taiwan for the first time in eight months.
Taiwan s health ministry on Tuesday confirmed that a woman in her 30s contracted the coronavirus following contact with a foreign pilot, CNN reports. Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said the pilot, who is from New Zealand, was infected with COVID-19 in the United States,
This is the first domestic COVID-19 case to be reported in Taiwan since April 12, and
Axios reports that the island had been free of the coronavirus longer than any other place that had previously reported an infection.
Justice Department sues Walmart for alleged role in opioid crisis
The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Walmart, claiming lax oversight in its pharmacies helped fuel the opioid epidemic.
In one of the Trump administration s last shots at big-name facilitators of opioid abuse across the U.S., the DOJ alleged Walmart understaffed its pharmacies to cut costs,
The Wall Street Journal reports. In turn, overworked pharmacy staffers didn t catch invalid or otherwise problematic opioid prescriptions they shouldn t have filled, the suit alleges.
While big pharmaceutical companies pressured doctors to dole out painkillers and controlled substances, pharmacies are expected to refuse to fill questionable prescriptions. But understaffing allegedly made this impossible in Walmart s more than 5,000 pharmacies. And as Jason Dunn, the U.S. attorney in Colorado, put it, Walmart s pharmacies ordered opioids in a way that went essentially unmonitored and unregulated, violating the Controlled Sub
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