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News Roundup

Health & Medicine

• Are we getting closer to curing Alzheimer’s?
• 5th person confirmed cured of HIV
• After a brutal winter, an RSV vaccine might finally be around the corner
• Social media has been a major cause of mental illness in girls for a long time. Here’s the evidence.

Climate

• How disinformation is slowing the clean energy rollout
• Global corps climate pledges are ‘misleading’, not the word I would have used
• Biden wants all of the floating offshore wind
• Why the hell has climate change made tampons more expensive?
• Governments spent a record $1 trillion on fossil fuel subsidies last year

Food & Water

• One year later, the infant formula crisis is still a thing, and could happen again
• Cereal companies are NOT pumped about the FDA’s new “healthy” label
• Congress killed a bill to give farmworkers a path to citizenship
• Healthier school lunches may reduce obesity

Beep Boop

• Why haven’t digital therapeutics got payer coverage yet?
• How Google’s ad business funds misinformation (I wrote a deep dive into disinformation last week)

COVID

• That meta-study on masks is decidedly not as decisive (or honest) as expected
• What happens with COVID-era food benefits end?

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