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California Supreme Court to Decide If Employers May Be Liable for ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19

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The California Supreme Court has adopted take home asbestos liability and the California Court of Appeals has applied this to COVID-19 , but the California Supreme Court has yet to rule on this specific issue. Mr. Kuciemba soon developed COVID-19, which he brought home. Rothstein is the Herbert F.

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Litigation Challenges Prioritization of Race or Ethnicity in Allocating COVID-19 Therapies

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Public health and policy experts have published commentaries on the challenging issues underlying New York’s COVID treatment guidelines and others have offered more detailed guidance, including on this blog, on what criteria should be used in allocating scarce COVID treatments. Emphasis in original.)

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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. By Govind Persad, Monica Peek, and Seema Shah.

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Do No Harm: A Call for Decarceration in Hospitals

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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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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

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Dowling keynoted on the theme of “Leading for the Future,” sharing his lessons learned during COVID-19. He kicked off his lessons focusing in on a theme that would resonate with the HIMSS audience: “COVID changed our relationship with technology forever.”. Dowling leads one of the largest health systems in the U.S.,

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A Novel Approach to Crisis Standards of Care

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Repeatedly, states and hospital systems have considered implementing crisis standards of care, which establish triage protocols for scarce resources. For COVID-19 related interventions, this could be based on the potential for harm, and/or lack of efficacy in a given clinical scenario. One example is the use of hemodialysis.

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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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