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First: on Thursday night, President Joe Biden unveiled new measures to combat the Delta variant.
The six-part plan includes new vaccine mandates for many workers, new vaccine requirements for some schools, and improving COVID-19 treatment access.
Of note, the new rules requires vaccine mandates at any health facility receiving federal funding through Medicare and Medicaid.
That's virtually all of them.
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Kicking off the week, Blake Dodge had the scoop on Amazon's expansion plans for its medical-care service over the next year.
It plans to bring in-person Amazon Care services to 20 more cities: four more in 2021 and 16 more in 2022.
On the heels of Texas' abortion ban, Mohana Ravindranath took a closer look at some of the online abortion care companies that have been popping up in recent years.
The approach is similar to other virtual care companies: medical providers prescribe early-stage abortion medication, with a total cost of about $240-$350. People tend to pay themselves, rather than using insurance.
Investors and founders Mohana spoke with see it as a way to ideally expand access to reproductive care more broadly.
Shannon Stapleton/Reuters; Patient Square Capital; Bobby Yip/Reuters; Samantha Lee/Insider
This week, Allison DeAngelis took a closer look at a key healthcare dealmaker, Jim Momtazee.
He left private equity giant KKR in 2019, and last year launched his own firm Patient Square Capital, which is looking to raise $3 billion.
Here's how Momtazee plans to make a name for Patient Square Capital in the red-hot healthcare sector.
More stories that kept us busy this week:
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