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The Unsurprising Surprise of Social Determinants in COVID-19 Mortality

Health Populi

Covid-19 exposes America’s racial health gap,” asserts The Economist , the weekly news magazine based in London, UK, in an advanced essay dated 11 April 2020. State-level data revealed that in Louisiana, black people comprised 70% of COVID-19 deaths even though they are only 32% of the state’s population.

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Learning from the ‘COVID War’

Bill of Health

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. Here, I will list a few of their major ideas and assumptions.

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

Then COVID-19 joined the top-10 list of killers in the U.S. During the three years prior to her death, she was admitted to the hospital 30 times. Before the coronavirus emerged, the top causes of death in developed countries were heart disease, cancers, diabetes, and accidents.