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Opinion: How the Biden administration’s Covid preparedness policies could narrow America’s political divide

31.01.2023

The White House’s Covid Winter Preparedness Plan is a missed opportunity to narrow the divide between Americans. The plan contains important elements to mitigate the anticipated seasonal surge of Covid-19. …

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Coronavirus

Biden Covid adviser David Kessler to exit as pandemic response winds down

13.01.2023

WASHINGTON — David Kessler, the D.C. veteran who guided government dispatches of millions of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments, is exiting the Biden administration this month. His departure comes as the …

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Coronavirus / Health

Will America’s public health reckoning ever come?

11.01.2023

WASHINGTON — After 9/11, Congress created an entirely new government agency to address the threat of terrorism, and Americans are still taking off their shoes in airports more than twenty years …

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Coronavirus

Still fuming over the federal Covid response, Republicans redirect the House coronavirus committee

10.01.2023

WASHINGTON — The House’s coronavirus committee will continue in a Republican-controlled chamber — but with a vastly different mandate, reflecting GOP frustration with the federal pandemic response. The revamped, 12-person …

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Health

Officials in Nebraska, South Dakota, Oklahoma begin to probe prisons’ hepatitis C treatment efforts

06.01.2023

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress, state legislators, regulators, and legal advocates are calling on prisons to explain their poor hepatitis C treatment rates, after a STAT investigation revealing that more …

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Coronavirus

After nine months, an update on NIH’s long Covid research

22.12.2022

You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox. Pandemic response gets …

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Coronavirus / Health

Pandemic response gets a permanent new home at the White House

22.12.2022

WASHINGTON — The era of the rotating cast of public health czars at the White House may finally be over. Presidents for decades have brought fresh faces to the White House …

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Health

Addiction treatment got easier during Covid. A new proposal would keep it that way

14.12.2022

Addiction treatment got easier during the Covid-19 pandemic — and the Biden administration wants to keep it that way. Federal regulators on Tuesday announced a proposal to take the emergency …

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Health

To gin up opposition to the proposed menthol ban, tobacco companies are turning to gas station ads

17.11.2022

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — At the Gateway mini mart here, you can buy menthol-flavored hemp cigarettes, an impressive 1-pound bag of pipe tobacco, or a Dragon Ball Z-themed bong — or, …

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