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Five papers in the September 2021 issue, including a Narrative Matters essay, focus on COVID-19.

Using data on all traditional Medicare beneficiaries in the US, Peter Smulowitz and coauthors found reductions in overall emergency department visits for non-COVID conditions during the initial COVID-19 surge, but that rates of admission for serious conditions that almost universally require admission, such as heart attack and stroke, remained constant.

Sumedha Gupta and coauthors examined the association between US state-level vaccination rates and COVID-19 deaths. They estimate that, by May 9, 2021, the US vaccination campaign was associated with a reduction of 139,393 COVID-19 deaths.

Jason Buxbaum and Summer Rak analyzed the allocation of $178 billion in federal COVID-19 relief for hospitals. They found communities with a high share of Black residents had higher levels of relief funding, but those with a high share of Hispanic residents had lower levels.

Paul Shafer and coauthors estimated that the total share of North Carolina’s population enrolled in Medicaid rose after the onset of the pandemic, ranging from 19.4 to 19.8 percent between January 2018 and February 2020 and increasing to 21.2 percent by August 2020.

In her Narrative Matters essay, Maria Victoria Bovo, a pediatrician, described her experience with the debilitating symptoms of long COVID, including fatigue, breathlessness, and “brain fog.”

Today on Health Affairs Blog, Quinn Hirsch and coauthors discuss equity issues associated with broadband and telehealth accessibility.

Katie Keith covers the Biden administration’s first Marketplace rule, which includes a new low-income special enrollment period.

Elevating Voices: Hispanic Heritage Month: José Figueroa and coauthors published in Health Affairs in 2020 about racial disparities in avoidable hospitalizations, concluding, “New efforts are needed to close the gap and ensure that all Americans get high-quality ambulatory care, irrespective of their race.”

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