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How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

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Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. Older and medically vulnerable people who continue to face high risk of COVID-19 illness after vaccination should not be asked to wait in line behind adults who refused vaccines.

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Introduction to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

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By Roojin Habibi, Timothy Fish Hodgson, and Alicia Ely Yamin Today, as the world transitions from living in the grips of a novel coronavirus to living with an entrenched, widespread infectious disease known as COVID-19, global appreciation for the human rights implications of public health crises are once again rapidly fading from view.

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

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You’re stressed, I’m stressed; most of us have felt stress in the COVID-19 era which began in the U.S. The vaccination-willingness gap in the U.S. Transparency and education are essential to building trust in vaccines, Edelman concludes in this study, noting that 64% of U.S. in the first quarter of 2020.

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Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID

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This week marks the two-year anniversary of World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom declaring COVID-19 a pandemic. Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID. Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID appeared first on Bill of Health.

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Do No Harm: A Call for Decarceration in Hospitals

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J was brought to the Emergency Department with a cough, but after a test, we learned he was COVID positive. Clinically, it was difficult to discern if it was COVID-19 or withdrawal triggering his body aches and diarrhea. Most patients with severe COVID did not present with obvious respiratory distress.

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Conclusion to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

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While receiving significant global traction and acceptance since their publication in 1985, the Siracusa Principles, the authors argue, proved to be simply “unequal to the task” of guiding States’ conduct in the context of COVID-19 because they are “unable to speak in any significant detail to the particular concerns of public health crises.”

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

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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). population).

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