VOA常速英语2021--拜登扭转特朗普医疗政策（在线收听）

This is VOA news. Reporting by remote, I'm David Byrd. President Joe Biden has taken his first steps to reverse the Trump administration's health care policies. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, Biden said he signed two executive orders to undo the damage that Trump has done to health care. "There's nothing new that we're doing here other than restoring the Affordable Care Act and restoring the Medicaid to the way it was before Trump became president." The directives cover a rage of issues including getting more Americans covered under health insurance and removing work requirements for low-income people getting Medicaid. The most concrete short-term impact will come from reopening HealthCare.gov insurance markets as coverage has shrunk amid economic turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic. Biden is also directing health officials to weigh repealing a Trump rule that barred federally funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions.

欢迎收听美国之音新闻。我是大卫·伯德，为您远程报道。美国总统乔·拜登已经迈出了扭转特朗普政府医疗政策的第一步。拜登周四在椭圆办公室对记者说，他签署了两项行政命令，以撤销特朗普对医疗保健造成的损害。“除了将《平价医疗法案》和医疗补助恢复到特朗普当选总统之前的样子，我们在这里没有什么新的举措。”这些行政令涵盖了一系列问题，包括让更多的美国人享受医疗保险，取消低收入人群获得医疗补助的工作要求。最具体的短期影响将来自重新开放美国政府医保网站HealthCare.gov，由于冠状病毒疫情导致美国经济动荡，保险市场的覆盖率有所下降。拜登还指示卫生官员考虑废除特朗普的一项规定，该规定禁止联邦政府资助的计划生育诊所转介妇女堕胎。

Another drug maker says its COVID-19 vaccine seems effective. AP's Sagar Meghani has details.Maryland-based Novavax says the vaccine appears 89 percent effective in early findings from a British study though it's not quite as effective against a virus variant spreading in the U.K. and another in South Africa. The U.S. now has its first two cases of the South African mutated strain, both in South Carolina, in adults with no recent travel history. Health officials say it's almost certain there are more infections not yet identified. The Novavax announcement comes amid worry about whether existing vaccines will be strong enough to protect against the variants which seem to spread more easily. Sagar Meghani, Washington. Visit voanews.com for more. This is VOA news.

另一家制药商表示其研制的新冠疫苗似乎有效。请听美联社记者萨加尔·梅加尼带来的详细报道。马里兰州的Novavax表示，其疫苗在英国的早期研究中显示出89%的有效性，尽管它针对在英国传播的病毒变体的有效性要低于对南非的病毒变体。目前，美国在南卡罗来纳州首次发现了两例南非突变株病例，两名患者均为近期无旅行史的成年人。卫生官员说，几乎可以肯定还有更多的感染尚未确定。Novavax的宣布正值人们担心现有疫苗是否能强大到足以抵御那些似乎更容易传播的变种病毒。萨加尔·梅加尼，华盛顿报道。您可以访问网址voanews.com浏览更多新闻。欢迎收听美国之音新闻。