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How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

Bill of Health

To allocate COVID-19 vaccines, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices , the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), and the World Health Organization (WHO) identified ethical goals for prioritization, such as maximizing benefit and minimizing harm, mitigating health inequities, and reciprocity.

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Mainstreaming Reproductive Genetic Innovation

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to classify liver transplantation as “established” instead of experimental, thus clearing the way for insurance coverage; and (4) increased administrative agency and media outreach, as occurred during the COVID-19 vaccination campaign (although this certainly has not led to consensus on vaccination in the United States).

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

Health Populi

Transparency and education are essential to building trust in vaccines, Edelman concludes in this study, noting that 64% of U.S. health citizens say they will need to understand the science and development process used to create a COVID-19 vaccine before they will fully trust that it is safe.

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We Haven’t ‘Learned the Lessons of COVID’ Until We Remake the Political Economy of Health

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Over the course of the pandemic it has been popular to claim that we have “learned lessons from COVID,” as though this plague has spurred a revolution in how we treat illness, debility, and death under capitalism. By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant.

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Pandemic Nihilism, Social Murder, and the Banality of Evil

Bill of Health

­­By Nate Holdren. Every day in the pandemic, many people’s lives end, and others are made irrevocably worse. [1]. These daily losses matter inestimably at a human level, yet they do not matter in any meaningful way at all to the public and private institutions that govern our lives.

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

Health Populi

ASPE analyzed data from 62,451,150 people who had 1 or more vaccine doses administered by 3-10-21. who had received 1 or more doses of COVID-19 vaccines by race/ethnicity were: 66% of White, non-Hispanic people (60% of U.S. of Hispanic and LatinX people (19% of U.S. The percentages of people 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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Health Populi’s Hot Points: By June 2020, it became clear to the Centers for Disease Control that COVID-19 had been exacting a tougher toll on the lives of people of color in the U.S. than on white people.

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