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For-Profit Healthcare Doomed Our Coronavirus Response – The New York Times

The arrival of Covid-19 has provided a nuclear-level stress test to the American health care system and our grade isn’t pretty: At least 71,100 dead, 1.2 million infected and 30 million unemployed; nursing homes, prisons and meat packing plants that have become hotbeds of infection. The actual numbers are certainly far higher, since there still… Read More »

HHS grants to fund improvements to disaster response

The Department of Health and Human Services is awarding grants to demonstrate the potential effectiveness and viability of building regional disaster health response systems. Nebraska Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital have each received $ 3 million grants to conduct initial pilot programs from the agency, because major disasters can surpass the level of medical care… Read More »