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The Years of Magical Thinking: Pandemic Necrosecurity Under Trump and Biden

Bill of Health

From spring 2020 through the present day, Americans have endured levels of sickness and death that are outliers among not only wealthy democracies, but around the world. From early moments in 2020, the concept of a right to health — and indeed, even a right to life — has been discounted in American policy, discourse, and practice.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

In April 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a report featuring evidence that in the month of March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic was not an equal-opportunity killer. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges.

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The Remarkable Rise of Pharma’s Reputation in the Pandemic

Health Populi

The reputation of the pharmaceutical industry gained a “whopping” 30 points between January 2020 and February 2021, based on the latest Harris Poll in their research into industries’ reputations. This became to be expected by more patients in 2020, our Year of COVID as Dr. Osterholm has called it.

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy. The most-trusted parties people trust with their personal health information are doctors’ offices (86%), health insurers (75%), and medical researchers (72%), seen as the top health data stewards in the U.S.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

in the first quarter of 2020. Nearly eighteen months later, a 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer update finds that consumers’ trust in the health care industry is under stress, too — in the U.S. health citizens’ memories will last into 2022 with respect to cross-party desire for the U.S. and around the world.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S. health care.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs. Reflecting on my many conversations during CES last week, I’m evolving the concept to our homes morphing into health delivery platforms.