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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 >>

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 >>

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 event: slides (click on Download Event), video, and podcast. Get caught up with the Los Angeles event: slides, video, and podcast. Access the October PRINT or ONLINE issue.

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