What We’re Reading: COVID-19’s Contribution to 2022 Death Toll; Texas AG Requests Gender Change Data; HCV Treatment Lags in Prisons
COVID-19 vaccines have prevented more than 3.2 million deaths, but the US death rate this year has not declined to prepandemic numbers; Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton’s office has requested driver’s license records with sex changes from the past 2 years, among other documents, from the Texas Department of Public Safety; even though hepatitis C virus (HCV) is curable, some people who are incarcerated are going without treatment and dying.
COVID Still in the Top 3 Causes of Death of 2022, Even While Vaccines Save Lives
While death tolls in the US decreased in 2022 following the most lethal year in 2021 with over 3.4 million deaths, there were still more deaths this year than before the pandemic,
Office of Texas Attorney General Asked for Data on Gender Changes in Texas
In June, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office requested a list of people who changed their gender on Texas driver’s licenses from the previous 2 years, among other department records, from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS),
Preventable HCV Deaths Occurring in US Prison System
In the 6 years after the first hepatitis C virus (HCV)–curing drug sofosbuvir (Sovaldi) became available to the public in 2013, a total of 1013 people in state custody died from HCV-related complications,
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