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Ever since the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for two new vaccines, employers, schools, and other organizations are grappling with whether to require Covid-19 vaccination. While organizations …
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A year into the Covid-19 pandemic and the U.S. is still battling this crisis. As the country enters its second and third waves of cases, we know it won’t be …
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President Biden vowed to “follow the science” in an effort to get kids back to school. But that’s not what the latest school opening guidelines from the Centers for Disease …
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Before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, the U.S. was making some headway in fighting the drug overdose epidemic. But as the nation directs scarce public health resources to combatting Covid-19, the …
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The arrival of Covid-19 vaccines at the hospital where I work felt like a glimmer of hope, a small reprieve from the daily anxiety of feeling exposed and vulnerable while …
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Media reports describe the inarguable, if inconvenient, circumstances that follow us into the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic: In addition to hundreds of thousands of Americans killed by the …
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Difficulty getting dental care is the norm in much of the United States, especially in rural areas. One problem is that there aren’t enough providers. Mid-level dental providers, or dental …
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It’s now official. We’ve launched “The First Opinion Podcast.” In the inaugural episode, I talk with Jay Baruch, an emergency physician, professor of emergency medicine at Brown University’s Warren Alpert …
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In the second episode of STAT’s “First Opinion Podcast,” I spoke with Lauren Powell, the former director of health equity for the commonwealth of Virginia, who is now the vice …
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