+ A federal court has allowed theand other plaintiffs to go forward with a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s rollback of health care protections.
The Trump administration changed the language of section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, removing health care protections from the LGBTQ+ community. The government had filed a motion to dismiss the case, but the court allowed many of the claims to proceed. The National Women’s Law Center and other plaintiffs released the following“The ongoing global pandemic underscores the importance of ensuring that everyone has access to quality, affordable healthcare free from discrimination or harassment.
Experts attribute the spike in cases to low vaccination rates and political opposition to public health measures like mask mandates. Hospitals across the country are overwhelmed. One in five ICUs have exceeded or reached 95 percent beds full, forcing some hospitals to create makeshift ICU units in hallways., a pulmonologist in Knoxville, who noted a majority of patients were unvaccinated. “It’s bringing whole families down and tearing families apart. They’re dying in droves and leaving surviving loved ones with a lot of funerals to go to.
Just last week, top U.S. health officials were predicting the U.S. might be able to manage the pandemic by the spring. Now theA group of students wait to have their temperatures checked before entering an elementary school in Washington D.C. (