Reconsidering Mask Mandates
Removing mask requirements means rejecting yet another public health tool to control the pandemic and protect our health care system.
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Read more: The Risk of Scientific Misinformation with Preprints and Science Twitter The Risk of Scientific Misinformation with Preprints and Science Twitter
When science (and the media) moves this quickly, all involved should exercise a greater degree of caution when interpreting research.
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Read more: How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies
The same ethical goals identified for vaccine allocation are also relevant for COVID-19 therapy allocation.
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Read more: Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy
Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population.
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Read more: Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed
U.S. incarcerated populations have long dealt with chronic sleep deprivation, often with little to no reprieve.
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Read more: Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation
Today’s pandemic destabilized hospital care because hospitals were neither coordinated nor managed systemically in order to meet population demands.
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Read more: Who Has a Duty to Protect Your Health? The Answer May Surprise You Who Has a Duty to Protect Your Health? The Answer May Surprise You
The sources from which most people get health information provide advice without any obligation at all to individuals who hear and act on it.
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Read more: Being an Adult in the Face of Omicron Being an Adult in the Face of Omicron
It’s up to each of us to demand accountability and transparency, and to stay informed rather than assume others will act in our best interests.
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Read more: The Devil is in the Details with Biden’s Free COVID Testing Plan The Devil is in the Details with Biden’s Free COVID Testing Plan
This policy doesn’t seem to encourage frequent and convenient testing now, which is particularly important as we face the current delta surge.
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Read more: The Surprising Shape of COVID Fraud The Surprising Shape of COVID Fraud
We cannot straightforwardly assume that older adults are the most vulnerable to the scams of the pandemic.
