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Personal Crusades for Public Health

Bill of Health

When a health care setting drops its masking requirement, high-risk patients learn that their safety does not come first, a disconcerting realization that might itself lead to trauma. Of course, not every health care provider has the ability to alter the masking practices followed by the hospital or medical practice in which they work.

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A Patient’s Right to Masked Health Care Providers

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Following patient protests, the hospital updated its policies with an imperfect fix, announcing that “ patients can ask, but providers determine when and if masking in a particular situation is clinically necessary.” health care leaves little room for individualized accommodation and self-advocating patients vulnerable to retaliation.

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Creating Brain-Forward Policies Amid a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’

Bill of Health

One study that generated a large amount of press compared the brains of several hundred adults to themselves before and after COVID (their “before” scans were part of a large databank) and found brain structure alterations as well as cognitive impairments even after mild, non-hospitalized cases.

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