Winnipeg Free Press By: Malak Abas | Posted: 2:04 PM CST Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020
Last Modified: 8:11 PM CST Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 | Updates
Looking at the past, present and future of Manitoba’s response to COVID-19 was the topic of discussion in a virtual town hall Thursday hosted by the Winnipeg Free Press.
Looking at the past, present and future of Manitoba’s response to COVID-19 was the topic of discussion in a virtual town hall Thursday hosted by the
Winnipeg Free Press.
Panelists at the Manitoba’s Pandemic: what went wrong and how do we make things right again? forum ran the gamut of expertise in fields of health care and pandemic evaluation. The group discussed aspects of the public health crisis, before taking questions from
Reprinted with permission from the
Birmingham Medical News
This article summarizes the key 2020 legal, policy and political issues affecting Alabama health care providers.
Prior to COVID-19, most healthcare providers were benefiting from a strong economy, low unemployment and increased patient insurance coverage thanks to the Affordable Care Act (but unfortunately not Alabama, which continues to refuse to expand Medicaid). Then, everything changed. The COVID-19 pandemic. According to an article published by the New England Journal of Medicine, the United States has 4% of the world’s population but, as of July 16, approximately 26% of its COVID-19 cases and 24% of its COVID-19 deaths. As reported by NPR, among the 45 countries with more than 50,000 COVID-19 cases, the United States has the eighth-highest number of deaths per 100,000 people: 47.93 deaths from the coronavirus for every 100,000 Americans.