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Category: Healthcare

World Economic Forum in Davos

Billionaires at Davos don’t think COVID is a cold

January 21st, 2023 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, World Community

“We don’t deserve to be shoved back into poorly ventilated workplaces while our politicians and press assure us that only crazy people would demand to breathe clean air,” writes Julia Doubleday.

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President Obama returns to the White House

President Obama returns to the White House for the first time since 2016 for joint event with President Biden

April 5th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

Watch President Biden, Vice President Harris and former President Barack Obama deliver remarks on the Patient Protection Act and lowering healtcare costs for families. President Biden also announced additional actions to save families hundreds of dollars a month on their healthcare expenses. 

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Novel coronavirus

Vulnerable to COVID-19, high-risk Americans feel left behind

February 17th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

“Transplant recipients, cancer patients and millions of other Americans with risk factors feel ignored and abandoned as their neighbors, and their government, seek a return to normal,” Amanda Morris and Maggie Astor write.

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Novel coronavirus

Omicron wave was brutal on kids; hospitalization rates 4X higher than delta’s

February 16th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

“Despite being widely seen as mild, the omicron coronavirus variant has been brutal on children and adolescents—particularly babies and toddlers, who are still ineligible for vaccination,” Beth Mole writes.

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President Biden getting vaccinated

President Biden addresses the nation to offer an update on combating COVID-19 and the omicron variant

December 21st, 2021 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

The President spoke on December 21st, 2021, from the East Room of the White House to lay out what the administration is doing to fight COVID-19 and the omicron variant.

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Why we need to upgrade our face masks — and where to get them

September 30th, 2021 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

“High-quality respirators such as N95s and KN95s are now widely available and provide the best protection against COVID, according to experts. Why aren’t more people wearing them?” Tanya Lewis asks.

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As a doctor, I’m out of compassion for unvaccinated people 

August 17th, 2021 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

“The burden of this pandemic now rests on the shoulders of the unvaccinated,” writes Anita Sircar. “On those who are eligible to get vaccinated, but choose not to, a decision they defend by declaring, ‘vaccination is a deeply personal choice.’ But perhaps never in history has anyone’s personal choice impacted the world as a whole as it does right now.”

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Anti-vaccine protesters

United States is among nations with highest rate of new Covid-19 cases

August 15th, 2021 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

“The United States remains among nations with the highest rate of new Covid-19 cases, driven mostly by a surge in the South, where many states are lagging in getting people vaccinated against the coronavirus,” Aya Elamroussi reports.

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Novel coronavirus

They spurned the vaccine. Now they want you to know they regret it.

July 30th, 2021 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

“People who once rejected the vaccine or simply waited too long are now grappling with the consequences, often in raw, public way,” The New York Times’ Jack Healy reports.

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Appalachian COVID deniers anger nurses in Virginia

July 6th, 2021 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

Jamie Swift, a registered nurse who oversees infection prevention  at Johnston Memorial Hospital, a rural healthcare provider in The Old Dominion, is very familiar with covidiots. In her community, they’re everywhere.

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America’s 250,000 COVID-19 deaths: People die, but little changes

November 18th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

The Washington Post has published a discomforting report about America’s ineffective response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, which details the resistance to mask wearing and physical distancing in many parts of the country.

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A harsh lesson in the reality of COVID-19

July 29th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

An enthusiastic Donald Trump backer who trusted Trump and Pence instead of public health experts and lost family members as a result has a warning for people who still think like he once did.

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A summer vacation during coronavirus? Experts weigh in

July 23rd, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

It’s the summer of COVID-19. BuzzFeed wonders: “How safe is it to take a trip? And what summer activities are less risky than others?”

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COVID-19 risks: Know them, avoid them

May 22nd, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

Erin S. Bromage, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, has published an informative primer on which environments the novel coronavirus is most easily transmitted in, which also discusses how people can minimize getting sick.

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Jay Inslee

Governor Jay Inslee offers scathing response to Republican legal attacks: “Anyone can file a lawsuit, and anyone has.”

May 8th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, Litigation

During a COVID-19 update press conference, Governor Jay Inslee offered a scathing response to Republican legal attacks: “Anyone can file a lawsuit, and anyone has.”

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A woman standing alone

Rethinking and reframing: Let’s aim for physical rather than social distancing

March 20th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, World Community

“Isolation can be toxic. Let’s increase physical distance, but stay connected,: writes Dr. Kenneth E. Miller.

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Caricature of Donald Trump

Republican America isn’t prepared for the coronavirus crisis

March 16th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, Party Politics

“[T]he Pavlovian urge to win the short-term news cycle, own the libs and defend the economic interests of corporate America and Trump’s re-election are combining with the predilection for conspiracy-minded thinking on the right.”

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Archdiocese of Seattle suspends liturgies, tells region’s Catholics: Don’t come to church

March 11th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, Spirituality, World Community

“I am going to ask that all of our parishes in western Washington, in the Archdiocese of Seattle, effective today, suspend the celebration publicly of the Eucharist,” Archbishop Etienne said.

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For Trump, coronavirus proves to be an enemy he can’t tweet away

March 9th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, World Community

“A president who is at his strongest politically when he has a human target to attack has found it harder to confront a growing outbreak that has rattled the country,” The New York Times assesses.

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Jay Inslee

Governor Jay Inslee appears on CBS’ Face the Nation to talk about coronavirus response with Margaret Brennan

March 8th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, World Community

Read a transcript of Governor Jay Inslee’s appearance on one of the nation’s major Sunday morning talk shows.

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Looking at how diseases spread, canceling SXSW was the right call

March 6th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, World Community

“No doubt canceling SXSW was a tough call for the city,” data scientist Spencer Fox writes. “But public health concerns must take priority.”

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