We sit down with one of the top pandemic reporters in the country to answer listener questions.
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Posted inHealth Equity
Can Improved Public Health Messaging Address COVID-19 Disparities?
Amy Finkelstein on a study evaluating the impact of physician-delivered video messages on Black and Latinx people’s COVID knowledge and information-seeking behaviors.
Posted inWorkforce
One Community Health Center’s COVID Recovery
One year ago, a community health center told us how COVID had wreaked havoc on their budget, staff and patients. How are they doing now?
Posted inHealth Equity
Raising the Minimum Wage Saved Lives
Atheendar Venkataramani on a study showing that state increases in minimum wage and earned income tax credits led to fewer suicides.
Posted inHealth Equity
Data and Door Knocking: One City’s Push for Racial Equity in Vaccines
What Chicago can teach the rest of the country about distributing vaccines more equitably.
Posted inPublic Health
Infection Is Not the Only Pandemic Health Risk
Preeti Malani on data showing an increase in ED visit rates for mental health, overdose and violence during the pandemic.
Posted inPublic Health
Death, Disease and Denial: Combating COVID in the ER
What one doctor has learned after a year of fighting the virus.
Posted inHealth Equity
Exploring Inequities in Telemedicine
Rachel Werner on new research looking at which patients have struggled to take advantage of telehealth during the pandemic.
Posted inCost of Care
Why Do We Spend So Much on End-of-Life Care?
Maria Polyakova on research examining the surprising source of outsized health care spending in the last months of life.
Posted inPublic Health
The Dangers of a Slow Vaccine Rollout
Karen Joynt Maddox on research showing how critical it is for the U.S. to have a swift distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.