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With the United States on the lookout for more monkeypox cases, federal health officials this week said they’re considering expanding testing networks, even as they’ve stressed the current two-step process is not delaying treatment or containment of the outbreak.

Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the Uvalde school shooter had a "mental health challenge" and the state needed to "do a better job with mental health" — yet in April he slashed $211 million from the department that oversees mental health programs.

Nineteen children and two teachers have been killed in a mass shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. It’s the second deadliest school shooting on record and the 212th mass shooting in the U.S. — just this year.
 

Surges in COVID-19 cases are causing disruptions in many parts of the U.S., but as the school year wraps up and Americans prepare for their summer vacations, many people have returned to their pre-pandemic routines.
 

Children on lockdown. Armed officers rushing into a school. Parents and loved ones in tears waiting anxiously outside. It's an all-too-common scene in the U.S., where gunfire on school grounds is at a historic levels. And it's not just after mass shootings — smaller-scale incidents at schools are also happening at alarming rates.
 

Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, said Monday that an early analysis showed their three-dose coronavirus vaccine regimen triggered a strong immune response in young children, proving 80 percent effective at preventing symptomatic infections in children 6 months to 4 years old.
 

Three doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine offer strong protection for children younger than 5, the company announced Monday, another step toward shots for the littlest kids possibly beginning in early summer.

Michael saw the ability of federal programs to influence safety and cites a gradual reduction in road deaths over 50 years. But in an interview with The Washington Post — days after new NHTSA figures showed fatalities hitting a 16-year high — Michael pointed to the nation’s failure and potential fixes.
 

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Lisa French had never agreed to pay the full price when she signed service agreements with a hospital. 

The World Health Organization separately announced on Friday that the global total had risen to 80 confirmed cases, with an additional 50 pending confirmation.
 

The mass shooting in Buffalo last weekend provided yet another example why many in the health field – frustrated that gun safety debates all too often start and end with talk of more background checks and renewed automatic weapons bans – look to reframe the gun-violence conversation as one focused on finding a broader array of data-driven solutions. 
 

A new viral outbreak is testing whether the world has learned anything from COVID.