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. In 1989, the U.S.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The risks inherent to leaving matters of public health in the hands of private actors during public health emergencies; and. The drawbacks associated with relying on systems of decentralized governance and federalism to address health and public health crises.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

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

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

These bromides reflect the Biden administration’s evaluation of its own efforts; a recent White House report professes to have “successfully put equity at the center of a public health response for the first time in the nation’s history.”. We have learned nothing from COVID.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 7, 2022

thus has reverberating repercussions: it strips away not only necessary public health precautions, but also hard-won adaptations, such as remote work and more generous sick leave policies. This premature and at times exclusive push to “normalcy” in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

Transparency and education are essential to building trust in vaccines, Edelman concludes in this study, noting that 64% of U.S. health citizens say they will need to understand the science and development process used to create a COVID-19 vaccine before they will fully trust that it is safe.

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

Their COVID War The “ COVID Crisis Group ” is an establishment group of businesspeople and government officials plus some subject matter experts. Some have also served as public health officials and/or professors. They also present good ideas on the “how” side of public health. 209), and the like.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

health care system. Among the ten awards, I’ve selected three to highlight to synthesize one systemic issue that has plagued America’s response to the public health crisis. Mona Hanna-Attisha providing commentary on the events in the context of the coronavirus pandemic and the U.S. government.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

What gained in the pandemic year for trust were food and beverage and telecomms, in third and fourth places, which remind us the importance of those two basic necessities for our basic needs in the COVID-19 public health crisis and staying home to stay safe and healthy. The info hygiene-vaccine gap in the U.S.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2022

Over the summer of 2021, concern grew that the vaccines were not providing the near-perfect protection against symptomatic disease and transmission that had first emboldened the administration to jettison other public health measures. The entire pandemic response hinged on vaccination as a silver bullet.

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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. Most health citizens, hoping for a way out of the public health crisis, are counting on science to liberate both lives and livelihoods.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

From early moments in 2020, the concept of a right to health — and indeed, even a right to life — has been discounted in American policy, discourse, and practice. In a recent comparison of health system performance in 11 high-income countries, the U.S. rated last , owing in part to our lack of universal coverage provision.

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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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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

And though evidence is mounting that the risk of hospitalization and death is lower for each person infected compared to Delta, Omicron’s extremely high transmissibility means that a large fraction of the population will become infected in a short time period, particularly in the absence of additional public health measures.

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