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Gov. Ron DeSantis is suing the federal government to reopen cruise lines that reportedly bring in $43 billion annually to the local economy. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
MIAMI, FL Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters Thursday the state of Florida filed a federal lawsuit against the Biden administration and the head of the Centers for Disease Control over the ongoing shutdown of cruise ships. Today, I m happy to announce that on behalf of the tens-of-thousands of Floridians whose livelihood depends on the viability of an open cruise industry, today Florida s fighting back, DeSantis said at a news conference at PortMiami. We re filing a lawsuit against the federal government and the CDC … demanding that our cruise ships be re-opened immediately.
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Big Pharma Offers Veiled Threats as US Lawmakers Defend COVID-19 Vaccine Patent-Breaking Law
LUCY NICHOLSON
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With much of the Global South expected to lag several years behind Western nations in their COVID-19 vaccination efforts, popular pressure is mounting for Western governments to relax or waive patent laws on the drugs’ formulae, allowing their manufacture abroad, but cutting into pharmaceutical giants’ profits.
On Monday, the comment period for revising the Bayh-Dole Act, a 1980 health care law allowing the US government to “march in” and break patents for drugs made using federal funds if regulators determine the price is exorbitantly high. The change, initiated by former US President Donald Trump, would weaken the act by denying the federal government the right to do so based on price alo
Apr 7, 2021 2:31 PM Tallahassee, FL - Florida continues to lead the nation in the number of people taking advantage of a special enrollment period for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, with 146,250 people obtaining health insurance between Feb. 15 and March 31. Nationwide, more than 500,000 people obtained so-called Obamacare coverage during that period, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “Access to quality, affordable health care is essential - especially as we tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a prepared statement. Jodi Ray, director of Florida Covering Kids & Families, which works to sign up people for insurance, attributed the success to increased awareness of coverage options. Having to deal with the challenges of more than a year of a global pandemic has necessarily helped educate more people who have an ongoing need to fin
Half of US adults will be vaccinated against Covid with at least one dose by THIS weekend and Fauci confirms America doesn t need to use AstraZeneca s shot
Andy Slavitt, the White House senior adviser for COVID-19 response, said on Tuesday that half of all U.S. adults will have received at least one coronavirus vaccine dose by the end of the weekend
Currently, 41.7% of Americans aged 18 or older have gotten at least an initial shot, but Slavitt says he expects distribution to ramp up over the next few days
It comes on the heels of President Joe Biden s announcement that all adults will be eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccines by April 19
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