A federal judge in Illinois blocked the Trump administration from rescinding $600 million in public health grants allocated to four Democratic-led states on Thursday, according to NPR News. The decision came as the administration also moved to weaken climate change regulations, a move that is expected to face legal challenges. Meanwhile, researchers have identified the molecular trigger for a rare blood-clotting disorder linked to some COVID-19 vaccines, as reported by Nature News.
The judge's ruling prevents the administration from cutting funding to programs in California, Colorado, Illinois, and Minnesota that track disease outbreaks and study health outcomes, as stated by NPR News. The states had sued to block the planned funding cuts.
Simultaneously, the Trump administration announced a rollback of the 2009 endangerment finding, which considers climate change a threat to Americans' health, according to Vox. This action, which occurred on Thursday, is expected to dismantle a key pillar of climate regulation in the US. "The Trump administration is shredding the federal governments ability to fight climate change," wrote Cameron Peters, a staff editor at Vox. This move is likely to be met with lawsuits, according to Umair Irfan, a correspondent at Vox.
In other news, researchers published findings in The New England Journal of Medicine identifying the molecular trigger for vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT), a rare blood-clotting disorder that some people experienced after receiving certain COVID-19 vaccines, as reported by Nature News. The condition affected about one in 200,000 people who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the United States, and about three in every 100,000 who received other vaccines.
In related news, the medical drama "The Pitt" featured a storyline about the use of AI in hospitals. In the show, a new attending physician, Baran Al-Hashimi, aimed to improve efficiency with AI systems, but doctors discovered the AI tool made errors, according to Time. "AIs two percent error rate is still better than dictation," Al-Hashimi said, adding that it needs to be proofread for errors.
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