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

**Friday, December 11, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

COVID-19 Challenge Trials Would Save Lives And Avert Years In Poverty By
Significant Margins

By Pedro Rosa Dias, Ara Darzi, and Nir Eyal

Overall, even the most conservative estimates of the expected social
value of accelerating vaccine trials through controlled human infection
studies are dramatic. The risk to study volunteers would have to be
colossal for faster designs to be rejected on the basis of plausible
research ethics. It is not. Read More >>

FOLLOWING THE ACA

ACA Round-Up: Guidance For 2022, Funding For States, And More

By Katie Keith

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the
2022 draft letter to issuers in the federal Marketplace, key dates for
calendar year 2021, a draft rate review timeline, and draft actuarial
value (AV) calculator and AV calculator methodology for 2022. CMS also
issued guidance regarding its evaluation of EDGE data submissions for
2020, a limited EDGE data set, and a $23.7 million funding opportunity
for states. Read More >>

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Climate Change And The Future Of Health Policy

Listen to Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Chris Fleming discuss why
health policy is ready to enter the climate change discussion.

Listen here.

IN THE JOURNAL

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

A key takeaway from this month's issue is that the health sector is a
major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Experts agree that health
care organizations should take steps to measure and reduce their carbon
pollution, but where do we begin? Matthew J. Eckelman and coauthors
provide new estimates of environmental emissions in the US health care
sector
to
document the scope of the problem; Martin Hensher and Forbes McGain
outline priorities for developing sustainability metrics
;
and Andrea MacNeill and coauthors propose solutions to transform the
health care supply chain
.

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Health, Climate, and Wildfires

This year California has seen its worst wildfire season in history-and
it is unlikely that future seasons will be any easier. As a result of
climate change, wildfires across the western United States have
intensified as warming temperatures have created drier forest
conditions, increased drought, and lengthened the fire season. In a 2019
blog post, Barbara Ferrer discusses the 2018 California wildfires and
highlights the demands climate change is placing on health departments.

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