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Coronavirus deregulating health care — this should continue after pandemic is beaten
Fox News | Sally C. Pipes
April 7, 2020
Apparently, it takes a pandemic for policymakers to acknowledge that so many of the rules they’ve put in place serve little purpose. This crisis-driven effort to slash government red tape not only will help our nation defeat COVID-19 — it will yield a more efficient, higher-quality health care system post-pandemic.
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Dr. Henry Miller – The Latest on the Global Fight Against the Coronavirus
April 6, 2020
PRI Senior Fellow in Health Care Studies Dr. Henry Miller joins us with an update on the fight against the coronavirus. He offers much-needed perspective on what public health officials are doing to “flatten the curve,” efforts to find vaccines and treatments, the efforts of other countries to contain the virus, when we can expect to get back to business as usual, and whether we should expect more viruses like these going forward.
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Homeschooling Advice for Parents During School Shutdowns
Real Clear Education | Lance Izumi
April 8, 2020
Specifically, students can access “online curriculum, live-streamed lectures via Twitch, peer grading, course leaderboards, social forums, and peer to peer messaging,” while parents “have access to a parent portal to keep track of student progress and receive weekly progress reports via email.”
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Sally C. Pipes Talks Coronavirus, Telehealth Benefits on the Jim Bohannon Show
The Jim Bohannon Show | Sally C. Pipes
April 7, 2020
The Jim Bohannon Show interviews Sally C. Pipes about the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic, including the expanded use of telehealth for underserved and rural areas. Pipes explains the importance of telehealth as we start to move past COVID-19 and the role telehealth could pay in more affordable health care and medical training.
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Is Coronavirus Triggering De-Facto Early Release for Thousands of Offenders?
Right By the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya
April 7, 2020
Last week, CDCR announced that it was “expediting the transition to parole for eligible inmates who have 60 days or less to serve on their sentence and are not currently serving time for a violent crime as defined by law, a sex offense, or domestic violence.” This would effectively grant early release to about 3,500 inmates, according to department estimates.
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Dr. Henry Talks Coronavirus Vaccine and Testing on the John Batchelor Show
The John Batchelor Show | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
April 7, 2020
Dr. Henry Miller continues his regular appearance on the John Batchelor Show to discuss updates with the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Miller talks about case studies from previous vaccines, and breaks down the different stages of testing a coronavirus vaccine including a safety study, random and placebo testing, and a larger controlled test group to ensure the vaccine is safe and how the Gates Foundation is helping to build large-scale manufacturing facilities for some of the vaccines being tested.
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