“Physicians, clinics and women’s health advocates are looking to Xavier Becerra… to help swiftly unwind Trump-era funding cuts and rules that decimated the nation’s network of reproductive health providers over the past four years.’If anyone understands the legal challenges, it’s Becerra…But these are […]
Author: Mark Wrede
“Everyone going back to ‘normal’ right now, especially in the presence of more transmissible and more deadly variants, would be a recipe for further public health disasters on top of what we’ve already experienced.” It’s Time to Get Back to Normal? […]
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“Some Democrats say it’s time to give up the search for middle ground with Republicans on Medicaid. A better strategy, they say, is a new government insurance plan, or public option, for people in non-expansion states, a strategy Biden endorsed on the campaign […]
“Postcard from Contra Costa County: … The mobile vaccine strike team emerged from a collaboration among the county, local home health agencies, advocates for long-term care residents and nonprofit groups. It was created without additional public funding when Choice in Aging, a local […]
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“…websites and apps have only compounded the frustration for many people seeking vaccines for themselves or loved ones…Critics say that, at best, they simply enable the tech-savvy and people with time on their hands — two groups that don’t necessarily overlap with those […]
“Biden proposes hiring 100,000 people nationwide as part of a new public health jobs corps….They would help with contact tracing and facilitate vaccination…As with everything covid right now — testing, vaccinations and hospital capacity — ramping up contact tracing has become a race […]