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Study Estimates Excess Deaths in US from COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment
Under any circumstances, job losses can lead to excess deaths from suicide, substance abuse and the loss of access to medical care. During the COVID-19 pandemic, however, unemployment in the U.S. has reached highs not seen since the Great Depression, officially peaking at 14.7 percent in April 2020.
UC San Francisco researchers now have an estimate of how many people may have died as a result of pandemic-related unemployment, a number that adds to the nearly 500,000 deaths that have been directly attributed to the virus itself.
“Adequately responding to the pandemic involves not only controlling COVID-19 cases and deaths, but also addressing indirect social and economic consequences,” said Ellicott Matthay, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar with the Center for Health and Community at UCSF and first author of the paper published Feb. 18, 2021, in the American Journal of Public Health.
Pandemic-related unemployment caused 30,000 additional deaths in U S , UCSF study says
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“If you put a frog in a boiling pot of water, that frog is going to jump out straightaway,” FKA twigs tells Elle magazine in the cover story for its March 2021 issue. “Whereas if you put a frog in cool water and heat it up slowly, that frog is going to boil to death. That was my experience being with [him].” It’s a familiar analogy used to describe what twigs, born Tahliah Debrett Barnett, alleges was “calculated, systematic, tricky, and mazelike” manipulation on the part of her ex-partner, actor-filmmaker Shia LaBeouf. Twigs went public with accounts of abuse from the actor in December, filing a civil lawsuit that alleged escalating emotional and physical abuse from LaBeouf over the course of a yearlong relationship that began on the set of his semi-autobiographical film
February 18, 2021
When India went into lockdown in March 2020, the fear of Covid-19 swiftly spreading through a densely populated country of 1.3 billion people was dangerously real.
A harsh lockdown, one of the strictest in the world, created a humanitarian crisis of its own, pushing millions of migrant workers to take arduous journeys back home on foot. But the possible catastrophic impact of the pandemic was considered greater in magnitude by the government.
Nearly 11 months on, the Covid-19 infections and fatalities in India tell a different story.
In the early days of the pandemic in the country, for instance, the projected fatalities from the viral infection were believed to be 4 million. But as of Feb. 18, deaths from Covid-19 in India stand at 155,913, less than 10% of the estimate.
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The ugly reflection America sees when it looks in the racial mirror glowers back even from the nobly intended Medicaid program. The federal-state health plan for the poor is infected by a “subversive racism,” says an analysis cowritten by BU’s Paul Shafer in a recent
Shafer, a School of Public Health assistant professor of health law, policy, and management, and coauthor Nambi Ndugga of the Kaiser Family Foundation found a not-coincidental commonality among the dozen states that rejected generous federal subsidies to expand Medicaid. “The percentage of likely eligible Black residents was 10 points higher in states that chose not to expand their Medicaid programs than in states that did,” the article notes.
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