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Researchers develop more broadly protective coronavirus vaccine: Scientists have been searching for the optimal coronavirus vaccine since the COVID-19 pandemic ...
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Researchers develop more broadly protective coronavirus vaccine
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Older adults should get another COVID shot this spring, CDC says: A second shot could provide additional protection for an age group that remains at high risk.
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Older adults should get another COVID shot this spring, CDC says
Quick Glance: Why Older Adults Require an Additional COVID-19 Vaccine
  • According to new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), older adults should receive the COVID-19 vaccine more frequently than previously recommended. Individuals aged 65 and older are urged to get another vaccine dose in the spring or at least four months after their last dose.

  • The decision is based on data presented by CDC scientists showing current high hospitalization rates for COVID-19 among seniors, with the biggest spikes occurring in those aged 75 and older. A significant portion of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are among people over 65 years old.
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Trump’s vaccine rhetoric sends chills through public health circles: Public health advocates are watching in growing alarm as former President Trump increasingly ...
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Trump’s vaccine rhetoric sends chills through public health circles
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CDC director on new COVID guidance ending 5-day isolation: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its COVID guidance for when people need to ...
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CDC director on new COVID guidance ending 5-day isolation
Quick Glance: CDC Ends Five-Day COVID Isolation Guidance
  • The CDC is no longer recommending Americans stay home for five days after a positive COVID-19 test.

  • The new guidance advises symptomatic individuals to stay home and resume normal activities as symptoms improve.

  • While COVID-19 remains a health threat, the CDC acknowledges it is no longer an emergency.

  • The updated guidelines do not apply to health settings, the CDC stated.
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Read how education makes girls richer, healthier and more free. From the archive: econ.st/3V9yZgC Photo: Reuters#InspireInclusion #IWD2024
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The conflict in Gaza is proving more expensive than expected—and has exacerbated long-standing problems in Israel’s economy econ.st/49zVjEJ Illustration: Alberto Miranda
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In Japan, there’s a saying that it is the wife’s responsibility to educate her husband. What a joke.” Why shouldn’t men be held responsible for educating ... Show more   econ.st/3wIxfRG
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German man got 217 COVID-19 vaccinations. Researchers say he’s fine: A German man intentionally received more than 200 COVID-19 vaccinations ...
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German man got 217 COVID-19 vaccinations. Researchers say he’s fine
Quick Glance: Unique Vaccination Story: 217 Covid-19 Vaccinations Given
  • A 62-year-old man from Germany received 217 Covid-19 vaccinations against medical advice.

  • The unique case was documented in a study conducted by the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

  • The vaccinations were administered privately over 29 months, with no reported adverse effects on the man.

  • Researchers found no indications of a prior Covid infection and caution against excessive vaccination for immunity enhancement.
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Everywhere is building upwards, higher, further into the sky—except Europe. Read why it is the peninsula that tower-builders forgot: econ.trib.al/JCFry0w Illustration: Peter ... Show more
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“Oppenheimer” is both a crowd-pleasing blockbuster and a critic-pleasing passion project. Perhaps its success will persuade Hollywood to invest in some more ... Show more   www.economist.com/culture/2024/03/11/oppenheimer-breaks-the-recent-trend-at-the-oscars
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Measles reaches Central Florida as Polk County resident contracts virus: The case was reported in an adult age 20-24. As of Tuesday, the state now has 10 cases ...
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Measles reaches Central Florida as Polk County resident contracts virus
Quick Glance: Measles Cases Surge in the U.S.
  • Global measles cases are rising despite the available vaccine, reflecting declining vaccine confidence.

  • Critics say prominent statements are fueling vaccine hesitancy. Epidemiologists warn of severe outcomes during outbreaks.

  • Exemption rates above 5 percent lead to lower vaccination coverage, increasing the risk for outbreaks.

  • Experts caution about the rising spread of measles due to declining vaccination rates and the impact of misinformation in the COVID era.
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How to fix the Ivy League: Its supremacy is being undermined by bad leadership
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How to fix the Ivy League
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Corona, flu or RSV? This is what the combination self-test can do: Antigen self-tests have become normal in many households since the corona pandemic ...
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Corona, flu or RSV? This is what the combination self-test can do
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Have you ever thought about what you want done with your body when you die? For just $13,000 a private company will send your cremated ashes to the moon: ... Show more   www.economist.com/united-states/2024/03/07/a-private-company-will-send-your-ashes-to-the-moon
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Japan's Takeda in regulatory talks to launch dengue vaccine in India: Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical is holding talks with Indian regulators to make its dengue ...
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Japan's Takeda in regulatory talks to launch dengue vaccine in India
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Largest multicountry COVID study links vaccines to potential adverse effects: A new study on COVID-19 vaccines that looked at nearly 100 million vaccinated ...
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Largest multicountry COVID study links vaccines to potential adverse ...
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China is in a funk. Many people lack the confidence to spend or invest, and do not quite understand what has gone wrong. Senior officials cannot acknowledge this ... Show more   econ.st/4c4nJIE
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The psychology of impatience could make waiting more tolerable: New studies on the experience of impatience suggest there’s more to it than simply how long ...
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The psychology of impatience could make waiting more tolerable
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Bitcoin’s price is surging. What happens next?: The cryptocurrency is up by 63% this year
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Bitcoin’s price is surging. What happens next?
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“Palestine”, an old graphic novel, is making a comeback: Interest in Joe Sacco’s graphic novel is the highest it has been in 20 years
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“Palestine”, an old graphic novel, is making a comeback
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Do the latest vaccines better protect us from COVID-19?: For the first time, Australian researchers have sought to put a number on how much better newer vaccines ...
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Do the latest vaccines better protect us from COVID-19?
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Physicists are reimagining dark matter: There might be new particles, forces and perhaps even a Dark Big Bang
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Physicists are reimagining dark matter
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Widespread dissatisfaction with the choice of Joe Biden or Donald Trump for America’s president may lead voters to look for other options ... Show more   econ.st/3PdrFNp
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COVID-19 timeline: How the deadly virus and the world's response have evolved over 4 years
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COVID-19 timeline: How the deadly virus and the world's response have ...
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Novavax settles dispute with international vaccine group Gavi: Novavax has agreed to pay back international vaccine group Gavi at least $475 million in cash or ...
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Novavax settles dispute with international vaccine group Gavi
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Kharkiv is struggling under Russian rocket attacks : A border region liberated by Ukraine’s army faces a new onslaught
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Kharkiv is struggling under Russian rocket attacks
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Europe is ill-equipped to defend itself. Its leaders must urgently jettison their post-Soviet complacency and act before it is too late econ.st/42LpRkh
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Capturing “tacit knowledge”—the know-how born of experience—is a tough task. It cannot easily be documented in the manuals and is not much thought about by ... Show more   www.economist.com/business/2024/03/07/how-can-firms-pass-on-tacit-knowledge
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The confluence of Russia’s rearmament, Ukraine’s deteriorating position and Donald Trump’s possible return to the White House have brought Europe to its most ... Show more   econ.st/42HeFFj
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Has Barry from HR really been pushing your buttons and you need to vent? These are the pros and cons of losing your temper at work econ.st/48AgXaI Illustration: Paul ... Show more
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"If we have another pandemic, we should think long and hard whether mandates for vaccines are justified." In an extraordinary development ... Show more   #9News
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There are about 10.5m people living outside China who are, or once were, Chinese citizens. But leaving the country does not necessarily offer freedom from the ... Show more   econ.st/49Sohj1
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Some universities, especially former technical colleges and polytechnics in big cities, have grown exceptionally diverse. Good grades ... Show more   econ.trib.al/NfnsU5N
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On March 11, 2020 — three months after a group of people in Wuhan, China, first exhibited symptoms of a novel coronavirus — the World Health Organization ... Show more
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China is calling on its bankers to develop a “financial culture with Chinese characteristics”. What could this look like? econ.st/3uSlEia Illustration: Chloe Cushman
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Gabriel García Márquez’s novella was published against his wishes: “Until August” raises questions about authors’ consent and the literary afterlife
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Gabriel García Márquez’s novella was published against his wishes
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Switching arms for vaccines could help boost your immunity, study finds: A new study examines whether alternating arms for multidose vaccines could improve ...
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Switching arms for vaccines could help boost your immunity, study finds
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A millennial is building America’s first nickel-cobalt refinery: But it’s proving ethically trickier than she expected
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A millennial is building America’s first nickel-cobalt refinery
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Ukraine’s animals are also victims of the war: Though foxes have thrived
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Ukraine’s animals are also victims of the war
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The country’s semiconductor supply chain is steadily deepening. But can it ever match that of its rivals? econ.st/3uzyim4 Illustration: Guillem Casasus
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India’s growing north-­south divide could ruin the country—or make it econ.st/3uY84K4
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Why is measles making a comeback in the UK?: As parents refuse vaccines for their children, the UK has seen a surge in measles cases over the past year.
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Why is measles making a comeback in the UK?
Quick Glance: Florida School Measles Outbreak Raises Concerns
  • A recent measles outbreak in a Florida school highlights the increasing danger of vaccine skepticism.

  • Reports indicate that six students at Manatee Bay Elementary School in Broward County have been diagnosed with the disease.

  • Experts express concerns about potential future outbreaks and stress the importance of vaccinations in light of growing skepticism.

  • Health officials point out that inadequate vaccination rates at U.S. schools pose a risk for measles outbreaks.
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Whenever a global economic transformation takes place, a single city usually drives it forward. Today that city is San Francisco ... Show more   econ.st/49uw32R
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Two riveting new memoirs explore monogamy and its discontents. The authors are hemmed in by the demands of motherhood and the desire to be desired by men: ... Show more   econ.trib.al/pozlPzi
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How businesses are actually using generative AI: Some experiments with chatbots are more useful than others
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How businesses are actually using generative AI
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Why COVID-19 patients who could most benefit from Paxlovid still aren’t getting it
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Life and death in Putin’s gulag: Navalny’s death has exposed the similarities between Russia’s current penal system and Stalin’s
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Life and death in Putin’s gulag
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What is Hindutva, the ideology of India’s ruling party?: It seeks to equate Indianness with Hinduism
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What is Hindutva, the ideology of India’s ruling party?
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Mask-wearing no longer mandatory in lower-risk health settings such as polyclinics, GPs
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Mask-wearing no longer mandatory in lower-risk health settings such as ...
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Largest COVID vaccine study yet finds links to health conditions: Vaccines that protect against severe illness, death and lingering long COVID symptoms from an ...
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Largest COVID vaccine study yet finds links to health conditions
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More than a tenth of Azerbaijan’s annual budget has been earmarked for the reconstruction of Nagorno-Karabakh: econ.trib.al/3Q4DWsq Image: Getty Images
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Markets are soaring. But that does not make it wise to rush out and buy stocks—what happens next is unlikely to fill investors with glee
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The resilience of Germany’s old steel-making heartland is a model for the future: econ.st/42MkK3t Photo: Getty Images
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Tensions run high in House hearing on COVID vaccine safety, efficacy: House lawmakers exchanged pointed barbs Thursday in what ended up being a rather ...
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Tensions run high in House hearing on COVID vaccine safety, efficacy
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Exile has long been a way for critics to escape the iron fist of tyrants. Now autocracies are trying to control ideas and people abroad as well as at home ... Show more   econ.st/3IlaXaX
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CDC: Older adults should get COVID-19 booster shot: The recommendation comes ahead of a likely summer wave of COVID-19 infections that has occurred in past years ...
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CDC: Older adults should get COVID-19 booster shot
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The growing peril of national conservatism: It’s dangerous and it’s spreading. Liberals need to find a way to stop it
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The growing peril of national conservatism
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How to put Russia’s frozen assets to work for Ukraine: Exploit them to the full, but legally
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How to put Russia’s frozen assets to work for Ukraine
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What Constitutes a ‘Superspreader Event’?: Superspreader events are large social gatherings that result in multiple infections transmitted among attendees with ...
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What Constitutes a ‘Superspreader Event’?
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A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs : All use different chemistries for cost or performance
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A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs
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Why do Nvidia’s chips dominate the AI market?: The firm has three big advantages
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Why do Nvidia’s chips dominate the AI market?
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Older US adults should get another COVID-19 shot, health officials recommend: Federal health officials say older U.S. adults who got a COVID-19 shot in the fall ...
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Older US adults should get another COVID-19 shot, health officials ...
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How investors get risk wrong: Contrary to popular wisdom, more volatile stocks do not outperform
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How investors get risk wrong
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The reckless heroism of Alexei Navalny: Russia’s leading opposition figure endured ignominy, imprisonment and poisoning over the course of his political career
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The reckless heroism of Alexei Navalny
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“Economic travesty persists because India increasingly devalues human dignity, equity and fairness, while undercutting civic virtues essential for social ... Show more   econ.st/48GyD4u
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The election result is a rebuke to the army—and may eventually prove a turning point in the generals’ ability to influence politics econ.st/3UEMzIW Image: Getty Images
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An exhibition football match featuring Lionel Messi was meant to help attract foreigners to Hong Kong. Instead it made the city look worryingly like the ... Show more   econ.st/3T1MCx4
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Europe faces a painful adjustment to higher defence spending: The choices: taxes, cuts elsewhere, more borrowing
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Europe faces a painful adjustment to higher defence spending
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Is Ukraine losing the war against Russia? : Five maps and charts illustrate the current state of fighting
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Is Ukraine losing the war against Russia?
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On “A Wonderful Country”, Israelis joke their way through trauma: Nothing appears off limits on the incisive comedy show, except for Gazans’ pain
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On “A Wonderful Country”, Israelis joke their way through trauma
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Why I opened a secret school for Afghan girls: When the Taliban cracked down on girls’ education, one woman knew what she had to do
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Why I opened a secret school for Afghan girls
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West Virginia lawmakers pass bill allowing religious exemptions for school vaccine requirements
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West Virginia lawmakers pass bill allowing religious exemptions for school ...