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

**Monday, July 27, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

Village Versus Virus: Rural Ethos Protects Where Public Health Fails

By Anne N. Sosin and Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song

Despite the many challenges that these systems face, rural health
systems and communities were able to mount an effective response to the
COVID-19 pandemic that helped to stem the spread of the disease, created
capacity to respond to a surge, and protected their most vulnerable
populations. Read More >>

Data-Driven Solutions For COVID-19 In Skilled Nursing Facilities: MDS
'Section Y'

By Barry S. Fogel

In the present SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, decisions about health policy and
clinical care for skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents are being
made daily despite a lack of comprehensive data to inform them. I
propose a feasible, cost-efficient, and rapidly implementable solution
to the data gap: the addition of a new section to the Minimum Data Set
for SNF residents comprising data specific to COVID-19. Read More >>

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FOLLOWING THE ACA

Marketplace Effectuated Enrollment Data Stable; Report Shows Slight
Increase In Risk Scores

By Katie Keith

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released two new
reports. The first includes a full year of Marketplace enrollment data
for the 2019 plan year and preliminary effectuated Marketplace
enrollment data for the 2020 plan year. The second report is the summary
risk adjustment report for 2019 detailing about $10.8 billion in
transfers. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

WOMEN'S HEALTH

Pharmacist-Prescribed And Over-The-Counter Hormonal Contraception In Los
Angeles County Retail Pharmacies

By Dima Mazen Qato, G. Caleb Alexander, Jenny S. Guadamuz, Sun Choi,
Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr, and Stacy Tessler Lindau

Dima Qato and coauthors use a census of retail pharmacies in Los Angeles
County to evaluate contraception availability a year after California
implemented a statewide order granting pharmacies prescriptive authority
for preventive contraceptives, and four years after federal law
eliminated age restrictions on obtaining emergency contraception. Read
More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Fauci On Pandemics

Anthony Fauci has advised six presidents through many epidemics as
director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
In his February 2017 Health Affairs Blog post, "What Three Decades of
Pandemic Threats can Teach Us About the Future," Fauci revisits his
time leading the nation through the (ongoing) HIV/AIDS epidemic, swine
flu, Ebola, and the Zika virus. Writing well before COVID-19, Fauci
emphasizes that the government and scientific and medical communities
cannot afford to look only toward the end of the current crisis
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