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

Health Populi

They conclude, “the US is consistently the wealthiest country in the world with subpar levels of coverage for a core set of health services; these findings provide additional evidence of the need to reduce disparities.” than on white people.

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Learning from the ‘COVID War’

Bill of Health

By Sam Friedman Amid an emergent international consensus that the COVID pandemic is “over,” writings about the pandemic and its meanings have burst forth like the flowers of June. This article will focus on one such book, Lessons from the COVID War: An Investigative Report. 209), and the like.

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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. In the U.S.,

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The Remarkable Rise of Pharma’s Reputation in the Pandemic

Health Populi

Beth writes that, “a whopping two-thirds of Americans now offer a thumbs-up on pharma” as the title of her article, calling out the 30-point gain from 32% in January 2020 to 62% in February 2021. Most health citizens, hoping for a way out of the public health crisis, are counting on science to liberate both lives and livelihoods.

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