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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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Do No Harm: A Call for Decarceration in Hospitals

Bill of Health

As an emergency medicine resident at a large academic hospital in Los Angeles, I see how incarcerated patients’ suffering is sanctioned by hospitals and medical professionals, despite their pledge to do no harm. J was brought to the Emergency Department with a cough, but after a test, we learned he was COVID positive.

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

Health Populi

Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019. Transparency and education are essential to building trust in vaccines, Edelman concludes in this study, noting that 64% of U.S. health citizens’ memories will last into 2022 with respect to cross-party desire for 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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Learning from the ‘COVID War’

Bill of Health

The pandemic response in the United States, and its attendant hospitalization and death rates, represents a failure of public health. They fail to discuss and analyze the actions of nurses and other health care workers to organize care, to support each other when sick, and to force hospital managements to procure PPE like masks.

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The 2021 Shkreli Awards: Lown Institute Counts Down the Top 10 Healthcare Industry Abuses in the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

7: Hospitals punish professionals for wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) in institutions. Early in the pandemic, many hospitals around the country took various punitive actions against staff who spoke out about safety issues on the front line of caring for patients diagnosed with COVID-19. government. . #9-

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

Bill of Health

While vaccination still provides powerful protection against hospitalization and death due to infection from Omicron, protection against symptomatic illness is weaker than before, particularly among those who have not received boosters. The peak number of hospitalizations would be lower, easing the burden on the health care system.