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

Health Populi

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).

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A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. – Dec. 2021)

Bill of Health

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. By Justin Feldman.

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A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 4: Winter of Death (December 2021 – Present)

Bill of Health

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. The rate of inflation was nearly 7% in 2021, which is unprecedented in recent economic history. ” which was originally published on January 5, 2022 on Medium. By Justin Feldman. for the first time.

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Please Keep Your Masks On

Bill of Health

can stop wearing masks, has attempted to change the reality of our COVID risk landscape by assigning new colors to risk levels and massively shifting the parameters of these criteria. 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.

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

Bill of Health

No other country has recorded as many total COVID-19 casualties as the United States — indeed, no other country comes close. Since the introduction of COVID vaccines in 2021, if not before, Democratic leaders have rolled back mandates and devolved the responsibility of preventing disease to individuals and families.

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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. 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. The vaccination-willingness gap in the U.S.

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

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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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