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Friday, August 21, 2020
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TODAY ON THE BLOG


POLITICS

Taking Stock Of Republican Health Policy In The Trump Era
By Katie Keith

Health care will continue to be a hot topic as we near the 2020 election. Next week, the Republican party takes its turn laying out a vision for the next four years under a second term for the Trump administration. This post identifies several of the Republican party’s health policy priorities since 2017 and takes stock of President Trump’s record on health care. Read More >>


Narrative Matters

IN THE JOURNAL


NARRATIVE MATTERS: COVID-19

An Understaffed Hospital Battles COVID-19
By David Scales

In the first of three Narrative Matters essays in this issue, David Scales, a hospitalist physician, describes the harrowing reality of caring for patients with COVID-19 in an overwhelmed community hospital. Read More >>


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HEALTH AFFAIRS REQUEST FOR ABSTRACTS—Border Health and Immigration

Deadline: August 31, 2020
Preparation and formatting guidelines
Submit abstracts via our online submission form

Queries: [email protected]

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on border health and immigration, to be published in July 2021. We plan to publish approximately 20 peer-reviewed articles including original research, analyses, and commentaries from leading researchers, scholars, analysts, and health care stakeholders. Health Affairs thanks the California Health Care Foundation and the Con Alma Health Foundation for their generous support of this issue.

Please see our request for abstracts for a list of topics of interest, and visit our FAQs page for additional submission requirements.


A CLOSER LOOKPublic Health Response To Urgent Case Reports

The ongoing pandemic continues to raise new questions on public health and force the medical community to revisit old ones. Today, take a look at David J. Dausey, Nicole Lurie, and Alexis Diamond's 2005 study. Bringing the study into view fifteen years later, should we consider what delayed response times mean for surrounding communities in the case of contagious diseases like COVID-19?

Health Affairs Event: COVID-19 Vaccines & Treatment
 
 
 
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