Health

Using a tablet screen, Rupesh Kotiya, left, communicates with his son Ronan, 11, who holds a medical suction tube at their home in Plano, Texas, April 10, 2022. Ronan helps care for his father who suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease. Millions of Americans with serious health problems depend on children ages 18 and younger to provide some or all of their care at home. An exact number is hard to pin down, but researchers think millions of children are involved in caregiving in the U.S. (AP Photo / LM Otero)

This March 2022 photo provided by Morgan Fabry poses for a photo with her daughter in Chicago, in a March 2022 photo provided by Fabry. Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended for the first six months of life by major medical entities, giving rise to the saying “breast is best.” But breastfeeding doesn’t work for everyone, leading Fabry to say, “The bottom line is fed is best.” (Morgan Fabry via AP)

Karla Finocchio, 55, holds up a picture of her dog Scrappy in her room at Ozanam Manor temporary housing for people 50 and up, in Phoenix, Feb. 4, 2022. Finocchio is one face of America’s graying homeless population, a rapidly expanding group of destitute and desperate people 50 and older suddenly without a permanent home after a job loss, divorce, family death or health crisis during the pandemic. (AP Photo / Ross D. Franklin)

Danielle Mitchell, right, watches as her daughter, Brooklynn Chiles, 8, is examined during a follow-up visit at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, Feb. 11, 2022. Brooklynn’s father, Rodney Chiles, died of COVID-19 last year and Brooklynn tested positive three times. She is part of a National Institutes of Health-funded multiyear study at the hospital, looking at the impact of COVID-19 on children’s health and quality of life. (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster)

Customers eat at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, after Philadelphia city officials lifted the city’s vaccine mandate for indoor establishments that serve food and drink, but an indoor mask mandate remained in place. AP has reported exclusively that data modeling shows 73% of the country is believed to be protected from omicron and that future spikes will likely require much less — if any — dramatic disruption in the U.S. (AP Photo / Matt Rourke)

At left, nurse Tamzyn Weibort straightens baby clothes in the baby boutique room at Portico Crisis Pregnancy Center in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jan. 26, 2022. AP found about a dozen states that have passed more restrictive abortion laws have also funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to privately operated clinics that steer women away from abortions but provide little if any health care services. At right, Amanda Furdge is interviewed in Clinton, Miss., Dec. 10, 2021, describing the contrast of easily finding abortion services when she lived in Illinois, but the difficulty of finding the services after she moved back to Mississippi, which has only one abortion clinic., during an interview in Clinton, Miss., on Dec. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

FILE – Takeshi Kasai, World Health Organization regional director for Western Pacific, addresses the media at an annual session in Manila, Philippines, Oct. 7, 2019. AP reporting has revealed that dozens of current and former staffers have accused Kasai of racist, unethical and abusive behavior that has undermined the U.N. health agency’s efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic in the region. Kasai denies the charges. (AP Photo / Bullit Marquez, File)

Virginia Mavhunga, a 13-year-old teenage mother, holds her child in her rural home in Murehwa, 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, Nov. 12, 2021. Virginia, part of a steep increase in pregnancies among girls and teenagers in Zimbabwe and other southern African countries during the pandemic, dropped out of school after becoming pregnant in a community yet to adjust to the sight of a pregnant girl in school uniform. (AP Photo / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

FILE - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a rally outside the Albany County Courthouse in Albany, N.Y., Aug. 14, 2019, following a hearing about vaccine religious exemptions. An AP investigation finds that Kennedy’s organization, Children’s Health Defense, has raked in money and followers as Kennedy used his star power as a member of one of America’s most famous families to open doors, raise money and lend his group credibility while spreading misinformation about COVID vaccines. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

A 33-year-old mother of three from central Texas is escorted down the hall by clinic administrator Kathaleen Pittman prior to getting an abortion at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., Oct. 9, 2021. The woman was one of more than a dozen patients who arrived at the abortion clinic, most from neighboringTexas, where the nation’s most restrictive abortion law remains in effect. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

This undated photo provided by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control shows a fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination card. A Northern California bar owner was arrested on suspicion of selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to several undercover state agents for $20 each. After receiving a tip, undercover agents with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control went to Old Corner Saloon in the city of Clements several times in April and bought fake laminated vaccination cards, officials said. (California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control via AP)