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The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Dear John,

The year 2021 was a big year for Health Affairs Forefront, formerly
Health Affairs Blog. October marked the blog's 15th anniversary

**.**

This December, Health Affairs Blog became **Health Affairs Forefront**
,
making the high-quality content readers have come to expect from

**Health Affairs Blog** even more accessible.

Health Affairs Forefront: The 2021 Most-Read List

****

Not surprisingly, many of our most-read pieces for 2021 concerned
COVID-19. Below is the top-ten list for the year. We encourage you to
read, or re-read, these pieces, and to check out

**Health Affairs Forefront** for health policy discussion and analysis
each day.

**E. Thomas Ewing, "****Measuring Mortality In The Pandemics Of
1918-19 And 2020-21**
"
(April 1)

Learning the lessons history offers is essential for creating effective
policies. Tom Ewing explained that the 1918-19 influenza pandemic has
much to teach us about dealing with COVID-19-if we are careful to draw
accurate lessons from that earlier catastrophe.

**Dorit Rubenstein Reiss and Arthur Caplan, "****Workers With COVID-19
Vaccine Side Effects Deserve Time Off To Recover**

**" (February 5)**COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, but some
recipients have experienced short-term symptoms such as fever and
soreness. As the US began to roll out COVID-19 vaccines, Reiss and
Caplan called on employers and policy makers to give workers time off to
recover from these side effects.

**Bruce Rosen and coauthors, "****Lessons In COVID-19 Vaccination From
Israel**

**" (March 18)**Israel's response to COVID-19 offers lessons for the
US and other countries, Rosen and coauthors wrote. However, they noted
that those lessons should be drawn with caution, with due consideration
of the differences between nations.

**Giselle Appel and coauthors, "****Fentanyl Test Strips Empower People
And Save Lives-So Why Aren't They More Widespread?**

**" (June 2)**Appel and coauthors called for normalizing fentanyl test
strips, small strips of paper that can detect the presence of fentanyl
in a drug batch. They asked: "If society has begun to accept
naloxone's utility for preventing drug overdose and death, why
aren't we implementing a tool to prevent the overdose from happening
in the first place?"

**Katie Keith, "****Final Coverage Provisions In The American Rescue
Plan And What Comes Next**

**" (March 11)**One of the constants of

**Health Affairs Forefront** has been the comprehensive reporting in
"Following The ACA," featuring rapid-response pieces - first by Tim
Jost, now by Katie Keith. In this piece Keith reported on the coverage
provisions of the American Rescue Plan, the pandemic relief legislation
passed by Congress in March.

**Ayesha Sitlani and coauthors, "****Monoclonal Antibodies For COVID-19
Are A Potentially Life-Saving Therapy: How Can We Make Them More
Accessible?**

**" (September 7)**Sitlani and coauthors identified obstacles such as
global biomanufacturing bottlenecks that stood in the way of realizing
the full potential of monoclonal antibodies to slow the progression of
COVID-19. The authors offered solutions such as "innovative licensing
partnerships and collaborations among biomanufacturers and between
manufacturers and public entities."

**Efthimios Parasidis and Aaron S. Kesselheim, "****Assessing The
Legality Of Mandates For Vaccines Authorized Via An Emergency Use
Authorization**

**" (February 16)**One of the major health policy debates of 2021 has
been over the various forms of COVID-19 vaccine mandates. In February,
Parasidis and Kesselheim addressed this topic with regard to vaccines
authorized by an Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug
Administration. They concluded that mandates for such vaccines would
likely not pass legal muster and satisfied neither ethical nor public
policy criteria.

**Susan DeVore, "****Health Care In 2021: Five Trends To Watch**

**" (January 20)**In her annual projection of health care trends for the
coming year, DeVore discussed a broad range of topics including supply
chain issues, coverage reform, public health infrastructure, maternal
health, and, of course, the pandemic. "COVID-19 has shone a bright light
on systemic issues that have stymied progress in health care," she
wrote.

**Katie Keith, "****New ACA Subsidies Available On April 1**

**" (March 17)**In her second rapid-response article to make the top
ten, Keith reported on the state of implementation of the new subsidies
available through the American Rescue Plan and how consumers would be
affected.

**Richard G. Frank and coauthors, "****It Was The Government That
Produced COVID-19 Vaccine Success**

**" (May 14)**One of the all-too-few pieces of good news about COVID-19
was the rapid development of multiple vaccines against the virus. How
did that take place? "The success of the US COVID-19 vaccine effort
didn't happen on its own; it was enabled by decades of long-term
investments by the federal government, followed by additional federal
investment in the development of the COVID-19 vaccines themselves,"
wrote Frank and coauthors.

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