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How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

Bill of Health

To allocate COVID-19 vaccines, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices , the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), and the World Health Organization (WHO) identified ethical goals for prioritization, such as maximizing benefit and minimizing harm, mitigating health inequities, and reciprocity.

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

Health Populi

You’re stressed, I’m stressed; most of us have felt stress in the COVID-19 era which began in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2020. Fast-forward to January 2021, and Edelman’s survey learned that health consumers around the world lost trust in their health care systems from May 2020 to January in the new year.

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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. No other country has recorded as many total COVID-19 casualties as the United States — indeed, no other country comes close. By Martha Lincoln.

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Please Keep Your Masks On

Bill of Health

is still recording nearly 2,000 COVID-19 deaths per day. For context, over the entire year of 2020, about 385,000 COVID-19 deaths were recorded. Collectively, in just the first two months of 2022, over 95,000 people have died from the virus.

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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. ASPE analyzed data from 62,451,150 people who had 1 or more vaccine doses administered by 3-10-21. of Hispanic and LatinX people (19% of U.S.

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

Health Populi

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. The bar chart here was drawn on the data the CDC presented in June 2020 getting granular on coronavirus cases by age and race. health care.

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Learning from the ‘COVID War’

Bill of Health

When confronted with police violence and killings in 2020, people demonstrated around the U.S. Similarly, people in the most-effected communities developed many skills at how to cope with sickness and how to organize mutual aid for each other. and, indeed, the world as part of the Black Lives Matter movement.