Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They present an opportunity for robust discussions from a diverse array of perspectives, breathing life into the notion of “rights-based approaches to public health emergencies.” Indeed they have already found their way in a resolution of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly.

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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. The bar chart here was drawn on the data the CDC presented in June 2020 getting granular on coronavirus cases by age and race.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Most patients with severe COVID did not present with obvious respiratory distress. I knew this would not happen. Just as there was no assurance of masking or social distancing in prisons, there was no guarantee of follow-up.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 7, 2022

It is amid this backdrop that we are proud to present our latest digital symposium, Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID. This premature and at times exclusive push to “normalcy” in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

JULY 24, 2023

We should resist the temptation to respond to death and injury by looking for ways to say the present level of death is better than some counterfactual. Unless COVID deaths are genuinely at zero, no level of death is actually good news, it’s just the absence of even worse news. It would be funny if it weren’t so ghastly.

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

They also present good ideas on the “how” side of public health. They state as a main goal in responding to pandemics is getting people back to schools and work as soon as possible. That said, they do take seriously the need for layers of protection at schools and workplaces.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

The main mask recommendation on the CDC website is, at present, a two-layer fabric mask whose protections are relatively weak. While other countries have promoted, provided, or required high-filtration masks for the general public, the U.S. has not (although, if you want to meet with Biden or Harris , you’ll have to wear an N95).

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