2021 Bioethics COVID-19 Vaccine Public Health 
Bill of Health
JANUARY 7, 2022
Over the summer of 2021, concern grew that the vaccines were not providing the near-perfect protection against symptomatic disease and transmission that had first emboldened the administration to jettison other public health measures. The entire pandemic response hinged on vaccination as a silver bullet.
Bill of Health
JANUARY 10, 2022
On December 1, 2021, the CDC issued a press release announcing that it had identified a case of the Omicron variant in the U.S. For the vaccinated and boosted, Biden’s message was: Keep Calm and Carry On, all will likely be fine. The benefits of public health policies to slow the spread and flatten the curve have rarely been so clear.
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Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
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. In a recent comparison of health system performance in 11 high-income countries, the U.S. rated last , owing in part to our lack of universal coverage provision.
Health Populi
MAY 20, 2021
You’re stressed, I’m stressed; most of us have felt stress in the COVID-19 era which began in the U.S. 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. in the first quarter of 2020.
Health Populi
APRIL 27, 2021
people who are part of Native and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaska Native, Hispanic and Latinx, and Black (non-Hispanic) communities were more likely to have had a COVID-19 diagnosis in the first fourteen months of the pandemic than people were White or Asian citizens. of Hispanic and LatinX people (19% of U.S.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
And, though vaccines are effective in reducing the likelihood of severe outcomes and death, data shows that this protection is not perfect — for example, in the first week of December 2021, nearly a quarter of COVID-19 deaths occurred in “fully” vaccinated people ( 682 of 2,912 deaths ). .
Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2021
In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021. than on white people.
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