Health Populi

JANUARY 25, 2021

Science is catching up to science fiction,” Smith warned, with insights for governments and consumers alike. The first image of a hacker was a teenager sitting on a bed, Smith reminded us, like Matthew Broderick’s character in War Games drawn in to playing the game. Then the threat of global nuclear war.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. The Delta variant led the federal government to resume control over mAb supply and promulgate allocation guidelines. The post How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies appeared first on Bill of Health.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By Taleed El-Sabawi The use of emergency public health powers by state and local governments during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic led to intense public criticism followed by legislative attempts (include some successes) to strip state executives of this authority. What does the future hold?

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, could set the stage for another public health emergency given eroding trust in institutions — especially in media, government, and public health officials. about their pandemic-perspectives, detailed in the report 5 Years Later: America Looks Back at the Impact of COVID-19.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers either incentivized or required employees and customers to be vaccinated and/or masked even in the absence of federal and state mandates. By contrast, in other countries , such as Canada and the United Kingdom, the government pays for all health care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

In the COVID-19 era, most U.S. The concept of data well-being is emerging in the pandemic, as Americans’ trust with institutions — especially government and technology — has eroded when it comes to consumers wishing to keep their data secure and private. The bar chart illustrates this point, capturing how U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Then COVID-19 joined the top-10 list of killers in the U.S. After her death in 2013, the Southwark Coroner’s Court found that air pollution “made a material contribution” to her death, “a landmark decision” according to a government advisor on air pollution.

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments. Three in five said their growth was due to COVID-19. Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2022

If that were the moral imperative, government—the primary expression of shared responsibility—would defend and improve health just as energetically as it defends territorial integrity.”

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 25, 2022

Crucially, the crisis of sleep deprivation among incarcerated populations is not wholly divorced from the present COVID-19 threat facing correctional systems. Cases and deaths due to COVID-19 remain “consistently higher” in correctional settings than the general U.S. Jolin is an A.B.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Though strict protocol typically governs everything in hospitals, for prisoners, those rules seem to go out the window, without deliberation. J was brought to the Emergency Department with a cough, but after a test, we learned he was COVID positive. Most patients with severe COVID did not present with obvious respiratory distress.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

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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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a noun, Merriam-Webster tells us that a rebel is a person who opposes or takes up arms against a government or a ruler. As a verb, “to rebel” is to oppose or disobey one in authority or control, or otherwise renounce and resist by force the authority of one’s government.”

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

The “tools” stood for individual choices based on personal risk tolerance rather than elements of regulatory frameworks to be pursued by various levels of government. The White House has also been lobbied at various points by testing experts who asked the federal government to order more tests, but they were rebuffed.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

By Nikhil Chaudhry and Reshma Ramachandran Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it had successfully included a reasonable pricing provision in a $326M investment contract with Regeneron for development of a next generation monoclonal antibody therapy for COVID-19. pharmaceutical market.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Last spring, the United States crossed the bleak and preventable 1,000,000-death mark for lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. The drawbacks associated with relying on systems of decentralized governance and federalism to address health and public health crises. By Chloe Reichel and Benjamin A.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

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. The same nihilism led to inaction on AIDS, the workplace accidents that regularly occur in the economy, and the government’s response to the COVID pandemic.

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Bill of Health

JULY 24, 2023

­­By Nate Holdren Last week, David Leonhardt took to the pages of the New York Times to celebrate the latest COVID death figures , which he claims mean the U.S. Unless COVID deaths are genuinely at zero, no level of death is actually good news, it’s just the absence of even worse news. I just want to note a few additional things.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 15, 2024

Chevron holds that “a government agency must conform to any clear legislative statements when interpreting and applying a law, but courts will give the agency deference in ambiguous situations as long as its interpretation is reasonable.” However, this “government” is the one we voted into power — whose job it is to safeguard the populace.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 21, 2022

Enough businesses must make enough money or serious social consequences follow — for them, their employees, and for government. The tendency to social murder creates potential problems that governments must manage, since states too are subject to pressures and tendencies arising from capitalism.

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

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. (In 8 – These towns trusted a doctor to set up COVID testing; sample patient fee = #1,944. #7

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

where trust in every type of organization and expert has plummeted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, political and social strife, and an economic downturn. Science is catching up to science fiction,” Smith warned, with insights for governments and consumers alike. This is no truer than in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

First, check out the gainers on the list: after pharma, health insurance was the second biggest rep-winner in our COVID year, gaining 23 percentage points in the poll. Interestingly, these are two of the most prominent life science companies that have been part of Operation Warp Speed to accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

The talking points for the 5-day isolation period are simple to distill: Emphasize that Omicron is mild in relation to Delta, even if many will be hospitalized, die, or develop long COVID. government, under a right-wing prime minister, has rejected the five-day isolation period embraced by a U.S. Even the U.K. Democratic president.

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