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(CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday extended a short-term order that will allow patients to continue to access the abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth visits while the justices deliberate over a high-profile emergency appeal.

Justice Samuel Alito issued a temporary order last week that allowed widespread access to the drug while it considered the case. That “administrative” order had been set to expire Monday evening. The new order extends that stay until Thursday at 5 p.m. ET.

The order keeps on hold a May 1 decision from the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals that had abruptly required women to obtain the drug through in-person visits.

Alito, a conservative, handles emergency appeals rising from the 5th Circuit. His order, as is typical with “administrative” stays, included no rationale or explanation.

The case is the most significant involving abortion to reach the high court since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 precedent that established a constitutional right to abortion. And both the case and mifepristone are heavily wrapped up in that decision. After the fall of Roe in 2022, many conservative states banned in-clinic abortions, which increased demand for mifepristone.

Louisiana sued the Food and Drug Administration last year over its policy allowing telehealth access to the pill, asserting in part that the Biden-era regulation undermined its abortion ban. A federal district court in April partly sided with the state, finding that the FDA’s policy was arbitrary and capricious because the agency did not have adequate data to judge the drug’s safety. But the district court held its own decision to give FDA time to complete a review of the drug.

But a 5th Circuit panel of three judges, all appointed by Republican presidents, put the FDA’s rule about mifepristone on hold immediately earlier this month. That meant that patients seeking to access the drug over the weekend were suddenly required to do so with in-person visits. Medical providers who spoke to CNN described the hours following that order as some of the “craziest” and most “chaotic” they’ve experienced.

Danco Laboratories, the maker of mifepristone, raced up to the Supreme Court on May 2 with an emergency appeal, warning of the chaos. GenBioPro, which makes a generic version of the drug, filed its own appeal asserting that the 5th Circuit’s ruling risked “cutting off access for patients nationwide.”

This story has been updated with additional details.

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By Henrik Pettersson, Renée Rigdon, Lou Robinson, Gillian Roberts, CNN

(CNN) — The hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship remains of low risk to the general public as 18 passengers from the vessel have arrived at specialized US facilities in Nebraska and Georgia on Monday, May 11.

Three ship passengers have died of the virus, which is typically tied to rodents, since April 11, and a handful of others are sick.

CNN is tracking what we know about the outbreak in maps and charts.

There have been at least nine reported cases – seven confirmed and two probable – including the three who have died, according to an update from the World Health Organization on Monday.

There is an ongoing investigation related to the more than 30 passengers who disembarked on April 24 at St. Helena and traveled to various countries, all before the outbreak was fully understood.

The outbreak was reported to WHO on May 2, the same day the third passenger died. WHO’s experts now believe the virus may have spread from person to person on board the ship.

After the Cape Verde disembarkation of three people in early May, WHO officials planned for the remaining 147 people — 87 passengers and 60 crew members — to sail to the Canary Islands. They docked there and began disembarkation on Sunday, May 10, under careful observation of medical personnel from WHO and various countries.

Of the 17 American passengers — plus one British national who resides in the US — now back in the US, 16 are in Nebraska and do not have symptoms. One of the Nebraska passengers did test positive, however. And two other people are in Atlanta at Emory University, and one has symptoms, health officials said.

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By John Fritze, CNN

(CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday extended a short-term order that will allow patients to continue to access the abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth visits while the justices deliberate over a high-profile emergency appeal.

Justice Samuel Alito issued a temporary order last week that allowed widespread access to the drug while it considered the case. That “administrative” order had been set to expire Monday evening. The new order extends that stay until Thursday at 5 p.m. ET.

The order keeps on hold a May 1 decision from the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals that had abruptly required women to obtain the drug through in-person visits.

Alito, a conservative, handles emergency appeals rising from the 5th Circuit. His order, as is typical with “administrative” stays, included no rationale or explanation.

The case is the most significant involving abortion to reach the high court since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 precedent that established a constitutional right to abortion. And both the case and mifepristone are heavily wrapped up in that decision. After the fall of Roe in 2022, many conservative states banned in-clinic abortions, which increased demand for mifepristone.

Louisiana sued the Food and Drug Administration last year over its policy allowing telehealth access to the pill, asserting in part that the Biden-era regulation undermined its abortion ban. A federal district court in April partly sided with the state, finding that the FDA’s policy was arbitrary and capricious because the agency did not have adequate data to judge the drug’s safety. But the district court held its own decision to give FDA time to complete a review of the drug.

But a 5th Circuit panel of three judges, all appointed by Republican presidents, put the FDA’s rule about mifepristone on hold immediately earlier this month. That meant that patients seeking to access the drug over the weekend were suddenly required to do so with in-person visits. Medical providers who spoke to CNN described the hours following that order as some of the “craziest” and most “chaotic” they’ve experienced.

Danco Laboratories, the maker of mifepristone, raced up to the Supreme Court on May 2 with an emergency appeal, warning of the chaos. GenBioPro, which makes a generic version of the drug, filed its own appeal asserting that the 5th Circuit’s ruling risked “cutting off access for patients nationwide.”

This story has been updated with additional details.

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