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Litigation Challenges Prioritization of Race or Ethnicity in Allocating COVID-19 Therapies

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Public health and policy experts have published commentaries on the challenging issues underlying New York’s COVID treatment guidelines and others have offered more detailed guidance, including on this blog, on what criteria should be used in allocating scarce COVID treatments. New York’s Policy. Emphasis in original.)

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

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Within just a couple of months of COVID-19 emerging in America, it became clear that health disparities were evident in outcomes due to complications from the coronavirus. The rate of vaccinations against the coronavirus, too, significantly varied by race and ethnicity as of March 11, 2021. In the U.S., population). population).

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Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed

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Crucially, the crisis of sleep deprivation among incarcerated populations is not wholly divorced from the present COVID-19 threat facing correctional systems. Cases and deaths due to COVID-19 remain “consistently higher” in correctional settings than the general U.S.

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Employers and the Future of Public Health

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For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers either incentivized or required employees and customers to be vaccinated and/or masked even in the absence of federal and state mandates. In 2021, over 50% of Americans were covered by employer-provided health insurance. Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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

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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.

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

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Trust in the technology industry has crashed to an all-time low based on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. As Richard Edelman, CEO, concisely asserted , “Tech loses its halo.”

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The International Weaponization of Health Data

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This was followed by the adoption of China’s Biosecurity Law in 2020, China’s Data Security Law in 2021, and draft guidelines issued by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) earlier this year , providing detailed instructions on the management of genetic resources. citizens’ health data with China.