Status racial y pandemia: una mezcla combustible
El aumento de casos y muertes por COVID-19 en comunidades minoritarias ponen en relieve cómo los determinantes de salud pesan en la dinámica de una pandemia.
How COVID Colors The Salon Experience
As Colorado gradually reopens, a beauty salon in Loveland is swamped as its clients clamor for haircuts, trims and color. But business isn’t exactly back to normal as new precautions slow every step.
Cómo COVID tiñe la experiencia de los salones de belleza
A medida que salones, guarderías y oficinas reabren, deben ajustarse a las nuevas pautas diseñadas para ayudar a la economía y evitar la posibilidad de que la pandemia recrudezca.
Analysis: We Knew The Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed 5 Critical Tests
The vulnerabilities that COVID-19 has revealed were a predictable outgrowth of our market-based health care system.
Keeping The COVID Plague At Bay: How California Is Protecting Older Veterans
Even as COVID-19 has ravaged nursing homes around the country, California has managed to keep the virus at bay at its eight state-run homes for frail and older veterans. What exactly went right?
Southwest CEO’s Boast About Airplanes’ Low COVID Risk Flies By Key Concerns
Airplanes are small enclosed spaces where social distancing poses special challenges, making this statement an overstatement.
‘An Arm And A Leg’: Health Care Takes A Financial Hit In The Midst Of Pandemic
In the first quarter of 2020, half the country’s economic devastation happened in the health care sector. Much of the slowdown came after hospitals postponed elective surgeries and as Americans skipped routine doctor’s office visits.
COVID Survivors’ Blood Plasma Is A Sought-After New Commodity
A possibility that the blood of people who had COVID could save others has set off a mad scramble for donors — with top-dollar offers and a plan that relies on the blood of 10,000 Orthodox Jewish women.
COVID Bailout Cash Goes To Big Players That Have Paid Millions To Settle Allegations Of Wrongdoing
At least half of the top 10 recipients, part of a group that received $20 billion in emergency HHS funding, have paid criminal penalties or settled charges related to improper billing and other practices.
Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don’t have to.