CDC Action ‘Likely Unlawful’; RFK Jr. Loses in Court; 24 Years for Urgent Care Doc

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The CDC’s long-standing practice of deleting certain employees’ emails shortly after their departure was “likely unlawful,” a federal judge said. (Politico)

In other legal news, a federal appeals court ruled against a lawsuit brought by Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which claimed that Facebook censored its posts spreading misinformation about vaccines. (Reuters)

Eight doctors were on the plane that crashed in Brazil on Friday, killing all 62 aboard. (AP)

Threats on in vitro fertilization have forced fertility clinics in Alabama and other states to begin shipping frozen embryos out of state for storage or to discard them. (New York Times)

On the heels of FDA’s rejection of midomafetamine (MDMA) for post-traumatic stress disorder, the journal Psychopharmacology retracted three papers on MDMA-assisted therapy over data integrity concerns. (STAT)

The CDC slightly raised its assessment of whether the H5N1 bird flu poses a pandemic risk. (STAT)

In other agency news, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he would block a House bill that aims to significantly cut the CDC’s budget. (AP)

Roughly 400 million people in the world have long COVID, a review in Nature estimated.

“At this point, COVID-19 can be described as endemic throughout the world,” said Aron Hall, MSPH, the deputy director of CDC’s Science in the Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division. (NPR)

Maryland is among a handful of states adopting heat protections for workers after a sanitation worker there died of heat-related illness. (Washington Post)

Three German Olympic swimmers who competed in the Seine river fell ill after their races, though it’s unclear if the water caused their illness. (AP)

ChatGPT’s new voice capability may put humans at risk for developing emotionally reliant relationships with it, OpenAI acknowledged. (New York Times)

Companies hoping to harness vape-like devices to deliver inhaled drugs have a long road ahead to convince skeptics. (Reuters)

Harvard will keep the Sackler name on campus buildings despite protests citing the family’s association with the opioid crisis. (AP via ABC News)

A Maryland urgent care doctor found guilty of sexually assaulting patients was sentenced to 24 years in prison. (Patch)

Tech executive Susan Wojcicki, who helped shape YouTube and Google, died of lung cancer at age 56. (AP)

Pennsylvania nurse Grace Carr, 97, started working at St. Luke’s Sacred Heart Campus in Allentown during World War II; she’s still there 80 years later. (Washington Post)

FDA broadcasted North Fish USA’s recall of imported 9 oz packages of Cold Smoked Capelin over a potential risk for botulism.

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