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

**Thursday, July 23, 2020**

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FAST TRACK AHEAD OF PRINT

COVID-19

Designing Pull Funding For A COVID-19 Vaccine

By Christopher M. Snyder, Kendall Hoyt, Dimitrios Gouglas, Thomas
Johnston,
and James Robinson

Christopher Snyder and coauthors propose a "pull" program that
incentivizes late-stage development for COVID-19 vaccines by awarding
advance purchase commitments to bidding firms. According to the
authors' model, the optimal pull program should spend more than $100
billion to induce virtually all serious vaccine candidates to
participate, scaling up capacity at risk to provide an average of 2.2
billion doses in 2021 across simulations, generating net social benefits
of $2.8 trillion. Read More >>

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

The Pharmacist's Role In COVID-19 Response Efforts

By Richard Hughes IV, Daniel Nam, Nick Diamond, Colleen Hopkins, Neil
Rosacker, and Manuel Aviña

Direct patient care by pharmacists has been shown to potentially improve
various patient outcomes during a public health emergency. As
pharmacists play a larger role in COVID-19 response efforts, the
question remains whether states and the federal government will expand
legal scope of practice and reimbursement beyond this public health
emergency. Read More >>

Ten Actions For Better Post-Pandemic Health Care In The United States

By David Beier, Robert Kocher, and Avik Roy

The 1918 influenza pandemic-the worst viral pandemic of the twentieth
century-led to few meaningful health care reforms. Let's not make
the same mistake again. Here are ten actions that will lead to better
health care after the current pandemic. Read More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Post-Hospital Nutrition Care

While there are many complexities of post-hospitalization transitioning
care that are addressed by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care
Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 and other regulations, these
initiatives fall short in crucial aspects of patient care
post-discharge. Wendy Everett and coauthors call attention to the
critical, but easily forgotten, role of nutrition in such transitions.
Presenting key steps for policy and clinical practice changes, this
Health Affairs Blog post offers a focused perspective on post-hospital
nutrition care
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