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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 >>

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.

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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