Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Despite having an outsized role in the discovery, development, manufacturing, and procurement of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics, the federal government has generally not exercised any leverage in ensuring fair pricing and affordable access to these essential medical products.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

ASPE analyzed data from 62,451,150 people who had 1 or more vaccine doses administered by 3-10-21. who had received 1 or more doses of COVID-19 vaccines by race/ethnicity were: 66% of White, non-Hispanic people (60% of U.S. of Hispanic and LatinX people (19% of U.S. The percentages of people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: By June 2020, it became clear to the Centers for Disease Control that COVID-19 had been exacting a tougher toll on the lives of people of color in the U.S. than on white people.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 14, 2022

to classify liver transplantation as “established” instead of experimental, thus clearing the way for insurance coverage; and (4) increased administrative agency and media outreach, as occurred during the COVID-19 vaccination campaign (although this certainly has not led to consensus on vaccination in the United States).

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

­­By Nate Holdren. Every day in the pandemic, many people’s lives end, and others are made irrevocably worse. [1]. 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.

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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. By Chloe Reichel and Benjamin A. In this symposium, our hope is to acknowledge — and mourn — this current era of mass suffering and death.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Over the course of the pandemic it has been popular to claim that we have “learned lessons from COVID,” as though this plague has spurred a revolution in how we treat illness, debility, and death under capitalism. By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant.

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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. is no longer in a pandemic, because there are no more “excess deaths.” The hunger for good news is, of course, understandable amid this ongoing nightmare.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

can stop wearing masks, has attempted to change the reality of our COVID risk landscape by assigning new colors to risk levels and massively shifting the parameters of these criteria. By Chloe Reichel. What is more important: your comfort, or a person’s life? These are the stakes of the move to unmask in the U.S. .

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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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Bill of Health

MARCH 21, 2022

­­By Nate Holdren. The present pandemic nightmare is the most recent and an especially acute manifestation of capitalist society’s tendency to kill many, regularly, a tendency that Friedrich Engels called “social murder.” Capitalism kills because destructive behaviors are, to an important extent, compulsory in this kind of society.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

2: Moderna, funded with nearly $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, sets the highest prevailing market price for the product. The controversy here is that this was the highest price set although the company received 100% of the development costs for the vaccine covered by the U.S. government.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

Edelman then connects the dots between information hygiene and vaccine hesitancy in this chart. It’s clear that health citizens with lower information hygiene have lower willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccination in the next year compared with consumers embodying higher information hygiene, vetting data sources and engaging with news.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

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. Among the top 20 in this study were two pharma brands — Pfizer and AstraZeneca.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

No other country has recorded as many total COVID-19 casualties as the United States — indeed, no other country comes close. By Martha Lincoln. From spring 2020 through the present day, Americans have endured levels of sickness and death that are outliers among not only wealthy democracies, but around the world.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

This series, which will run in four parts, has been adapted from “ A year in, how has Biden done on pandemic response? ” which was originally published on January 5, 2022 on Medium. Read the first , second , and third parts here. By Justin Feldman. for the first time.

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