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Guns for Vaccinations; IU Health Joins the Mandate Club; NFL Ends 'Race-Norming'

— A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine

by Ian Ingram, Managing Editor, MedPage Today

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School scholarships, , and over $2 million in cash are being used to entice vaccine holdouts in West Virginia. (NPR)

Indiana University Health will against COVID-19 by September. (Indy Star)

As of Thursday at 8:00 a.m. EDT, the unofficial COVID-19 toll in the U.S. reached 33,307,976 cases and 595,839 deaths, increases of 19,962 and 599, respectively, since this time a day ago.

Over 60% of the vaccine-eligible U.S. population (age 12 and up) have received a COVID shot, with 49% fully vaccinated, .

That includes a dozen states that have now of adults. (CNBC)

Amazon is , including in areas where the so-called Indian or "Delta" variant is circulating. (Reuters)

Abbott said it due to the plummeting demand in COVID testing.

In a South African trial of Johnson & Johnson's COVID shot, with known risk factors, but there were no cases of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia. (New England Journal of Medicine)

AstraZeneca is in talks with the U.S. government to . (New York Times)

In other news:

  • NFL said it for concussion settlements. (Washington Post)
  • People with seafood allergies , as the "insects share a family relation to shrimp and lobsters," the FDA said. (The Hill)
  • Newly sworn-in White House science adviser Eric Lander said he wants to cut the time it takes from discovering a new virus to having a vaccine . (AP)
  • Nebraska decided to , and all enrollees will be eligible for the full range of benefits. (AP)
  • FDA clearance for the Acumen Hypotension Prediction Index software with Acumen IQ finger cuff, a combination artificial intelligence/finger sensor device to detect dangerously low blood pressure.
  • Is artificial intelligence in medicine ? (STAT)
  • FDA warned of processed at certain Steril Milano facilities in Italy.
  • A federal judge ruled that claims related to possible birth defects from ondansetron (Zofran) were undermined by FDA's repeated to the antiemetic. (FiercePharma)
  • Healthy eating before and during pregnancy was associated with fewer complications, an .
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    Ian Ingram is Managing Editor at MedPage Today and helps cover oncology for the site.