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Opinion: HHS’s failure to address the health harms of the climate crisis constitutes environmental and institutional racism

28.03.2022

The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination against recipients of federal funding, including those covered by Medicaid and Medicare, along with actions that have racially disparate impacts. The Department of …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Biden administration (finally) elevates healthy buildings as part of national Covid strategy

18.03.2022

The White House announcement on Thursday that it is elevating “clean air in buildings” as a key pillar in the national Covid-19 response is nothing short of a landmark shift …

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Opinion: Hospitals need to get ahead of regulations on climate change

09.03.2022

Climate change, an issue that hospital leaders should have voluntarily been working on following the catastrophes of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, is soon to be an issue they’ll have to …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Health care workers don unnecessary protective gear. The CDC and WHO need to update their PPE guidance

04.03.2022

Every time we enter a Covid patient’s room, we first don gloves, and a disposable gown. When we come out of the room, we remove that gear and put it …

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Opinion: The National Academy of Medicine’s climate crisis effort must turn words into action

15.10.2021

With little fanfare and even less notice, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) recently launched its Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector. During a kick-off event, speakers made …

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Opinion: Listen: An organizer and a physician on how climate change will worsen maternal health inequities

15.09.2021

The country is in a climate crisis. California is experiencing its second-largest fire, on the heels of its most severe wildfire season in modern history. The other side of the …

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Opinion: A perfect storm: Climate disasters are magnifying the U.S.’s maternal health crisis

30.08.2021

During every humanitarian disaster — whether it’s a war, a pandemic, or an extreme weather event — pregnant mothers and their babies are hit particularly hard. More frequent and more …

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Opinion: The pandemic made clear who doesn’t get to breathe clean air. Now what?

16.08.2021

The Covid-19 pandemic exposed deep-seated inequities in everything from safe working conditions and affordable health care to kids’ access to the internet for school. It also highlighted another alarming disparity …

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Opinion: Doctors pledge to do no harm. The entire health care sector should do the same by battling climate change

11.08.2021

The alarming new report, “Climate Change 2021,” from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emphatically and unequivocally reports that “human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” The …

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