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California Supreme Court to Decide If Employers May Be Liable for ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19

Bill of Health

The California Supreme Court has adopted take home asbestos liability and the California Court of Appeals has applied this to COVID-19 , but the California Supreme Court has yet to rule on this specific issue. Mr. Kuciemba soon developed COVID-19, which he brought home. Rothstein is the Herbert F.

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How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

Bill of Health

Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. Older and medically vulnerable people who continue to face high risk of COVID-19 illness after vaccination should not be asked to wait in line behind adults who refused vaccines. By Govind Persad, Monica Peek, and Seema Shah.

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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. who had received 1 or more doses of COVID-19 vaccines by race/ethnicity were: 66% of White, non-Hispanic people (60% of U.S. In the U.S.,

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The Pandemic Policy Excuse of ‘Meeting People Where They Are’

Bill of Health

Too often throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers have justified controversial policy choices by stating that the world is not arranged in a way to make certain actions feasible. For example, last week’s weakened guidelines regarding COVID-19 mitigation from the U.S. By Daniel Goldberg.

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Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity

Bill of Health

Current calls for attention to a disability bioethics or a disability epistemology have heralded not only highlighting, but also actively promoting, the qualities, leadership skills, and valuable character traits associated with surviving and thriving in a world fundamentally not set up for one’s own needs. Impairment vs. disability.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. Healthcare experienced a bounce in the one year 2020-21, rising from 56 points of trust among U.S. By mid-2020, Edelman detected, “a decline in willingness to share personal data to fight the pandemic.

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