Experts Warn of COVID Threat; Cancer Near KS Spill; Elsevier Experts Quit in Protest

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Experts told White House officials there's around a 20% chance of a coronavirus outbreak in the next 2 years, with damage that could mirror that of the COVID-19 Omicron variant. (Washington Post)

More than 1 million pediatric polio vaccines were lost to looting amid a rise in violence in Sudan since April, according to the United Nation's children's agency UNICEF. (Reuters)

Elevated rates of liver cancer were detected among people living near a chemical spill in Wichita Kansas, said state health officials. (Associated Press)

After a strange flu-like outbreak that left one kindergartener dead at Marcus Garvey Academy last week, the public school in Detroit is set to reopen Monday. (WXYZ TV)

Universal Vare Charter School in Philadelphia will close for the rest of the school year due to asbestos -- the sixth school district shuttered for the same reason this year. (CBS News)

A child tested positive for measles in Maine, the state's first case since 2019. (CNN)

More than 40 scientists quit the editorial board of a top science journal in protest after Elsevier rejected their call to lower publication charges. (The Guardian)

Sons of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) were more obese and dyslipidemic, a case-control study showed. (Cell Reports Medicine)

Scientists have new evidence to explain the link between mRNA vaccines and rare cases of myocarditis in young men. (STAT)

The death of Jordan Neely, a street busker who died after being placed in a chokehold on the New York City subway, incited debate around mental health for people without housing. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Physicians have cautioned for years that chokeholds can be lethal. Here's why. (New York Times)

Planned Parenthood launched an initiative to put abortion on the Florida ballot after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fl.) signed a 6-week abortion ban into law. (Politico)

And patients needing the abortion pill mifepristone for miscarriage management worry that recent lawsuits could limit access. (AP)

NPR profiled the Texas attorney responsible for SB8, colloquially known as the "Bounty Hunter" abortion ban because it allows private citizens to sue people they believe have helped offer access to abortion.

Bill Gates, a Republican Arizona official who was threatened and harassed by election deniers, has signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. (Washington Post)

California regulators are conducting a probe into labor exploitation in the cannabis industry. (Los Angeles Times)

The association between cannabis use disorder and schizophrenia was stronger in young men than in women. (Psychological Medicine)

A spinal surgeon published a cookbook for people with chronic back pain. (NPR)

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