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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Tuesday, March 31, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

'Panic Prescribing' Untested Coronavirus Treatments: A Danger To
Patients Today And Tomorrow

By Holly Fernandez Lynch, Alison Bateman-House, and Arthur L. Caplan

No matter how much we might want a COVID-19 treatment now, we don't
yet have anything that has demonstrated safety and efficacy in any sort
of reliable study. Broadly unleashing every concoction that has a
glimmer of positive data, no matter how slim, on the COVID-19 patient
population will dangerously inhibit that goal. Read More >>

'The Future Is Today': Medical Students In The COVID-19 Pandemic

By Andrew Blake

If COVID-19 overwhelms our health care system's capacity to provide
excellent patient care, medical students should have the opportunity to
help their future colleagues in this fight. Read More >>

There Are Not Nearly Enough Nurses To Handle The Surge Of Coronavirus
Patients: Here's How To Close The Gap Quickly

By Joanne Spetz

With most states operating under a state of emergency, governors have
wide-reaching latitude, and many have already issued orders aimed at
expanding the health care workforce during the pandemic. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

LEADING TO HEALTH

A New Approach To Mental Health Care, Imported From Abroad

By Rob Waters

Rob Waters examines how a transformative care strategy, tested and
proven in Trieste, Italy, works in Los Angeles, California. Read More >>

This article appears in Health Affairs' series Leading To Health
.

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

Health Insurance Coverage: What Comes After The ACA?

By Benjamin D. Sommers

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) led to the largest expansion of health
insurance in the US in fifty years, bringing the uninsurance rate in
2016 to its lowest recorded level. But even at that point, nearly thirty
million people lacked health insurance, and millions more still
struggled to afford needed medical care. Benjamin Sommers identifies the
underlying causes of these problems and evaluates potential policy
remedies. Read More >>

Read the March 2020 Table of Contents
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HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS-PAST EVENT:  Violence & Health

Violence permeates our society with consequences for victims,
perpetrators, and communities alike. Even as media attention tends to
focus on incidents of mass violence, it is the daily burden of violence
in its many forms that takes the greater toll. Get caught up with the DC
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A CLOSER LOOK-Food Labeling

Federal and state governments are increasingly focusing on food labeling
as a method to support good health. Many such laws are opposed by the
food industry and may be challenged in court, raising the question of
what is legally feasible. An analysis by Jennifer L. Pomeranz in Health
Affairs considersoutstanding questions in First Amendment law related to
food labeling

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