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Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband

Health Populi

“The simple fact is that the federal and state governments are doing almost nothing to help people who have a broadband service available that partially meets their needs but abuses them with regular price hikes, spotty reliability, and poor customer service.

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The rise of virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

These will aid greatly in COVID-19 diagnosis, clinical decision making and managing manpower and hospital beds’ capacity. “Much of the COVID-19 conversation has focused on the lack of ventilators. Meeting the increased demand for professional healthcare products and solutions.

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How AI and machine learning can predict illness and boost health equity

Healthcare It News

seeks to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, many who survive the initial illness suffer debilitating long-term health impacts, especially those with underlying health conditions. The COVID-19 Research Database features a wide array of data about most of the U.S. Even as the U.S.

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Old Dogs and New Tricks: A Case for the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

Despite these experiences, Kenya failed take a human rights-based approach to responding to COVID-19, as was also the case in many other countries. One of the most glaring reasons for this failure was that the Kenyan government simply did not know how to do so.

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Roundup: Latrobe Regional Hospital turns to VR training and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Coding issue leads to COVID-19 hospitalisations undercount in NZ. The New Zealand Ministry of Health has identified a coding issue which resulted in an undercount of recorded COVID-19 hospitalisations. NSW Minister for Health Brad Hazzard said that having this free online toolkit "can be lifesaving.

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Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed

Bill of Health

People who are incarcerated already exhibit elevated rates of morbidity , and it is likely that the sleep deprivation associated with corrections only depresses health outcomes. Crucially, the crisis of sleep deprivation among incarcerated populations is not wholly divorced from the present COVID-19 threat facing correctional systems.

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The Biden Administration’s Whole-of-Government Approach to Equity – in Health and Beyond

Health Populi

the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed disparities in housing, food, and job security, and the role that one’s ZIP code and social determinants play in health outcomes. But these have disproportionately hit non-white people, who are nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 than white Americans.