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How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

Bill of Health

The Delta variant led the federal government to resume control over mAb supply and promulgate allocation guidelines. Notably, nursing workforces are aging , and older physicians are especially likely to serve in settings — such as rural areas , where 20% of physicians are 60 or over — where their services are particularly scarce.

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

Health Populi

With government’s relaxing regulations, health care providers could move staff and resources virtually from place to place, regardless of State licensure or other barriers to providing telemedicine, remote monitoring, and other flavors of telehealth. What should doctor’s and nurse’s competencies be ten years from now?”

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Q&A with PFC Director of Global Health and Rights Project, Alicia Ely Yamin

Bill of Health

I’ve been privileged to be able to work not only with non-governmental and grass-roots organizations but also with national governments and courts, as well as with UN bodies. I am so grateful to PFC and the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) for supporting new stream of interdisciplinary work on evolving governance in global health.

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

Health Populi

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. The coroner concluded that Ella was exposed to excessive levels of pollution.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics. This concept can be potentially harmful, they believe, assuming that health care is a traditional market.

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Learning from the ‘COVID War’

Bill of Health

Their COVID War The “ COVID Crisis Group ” is an establishment group of businesspeople and government officials plus some subject matter experts. Many, like their director, Philip Zelikow, have held high government positions and been lawyers, CEOs, or higher-managers for business.

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

Health Populi

government. (In 7 – Nurse claims North Texas Hospital fired her because she wanted to wear a medical mask (discussed above). #6 The price set was $32 to $37 per dose, requiring 2 doses for the full immunity coverage. In total, U.S. agencies committed about $2.5