Dr. Rachel Levine is currently the secretary of health in Pennsylvania, where she leads the state’s fight against COVID-19.
Category: NPR
For Many Areas, Count Of Homeless Population Is Canceled, Or Delayed
The annual street survey of homeless people is being delayed or put off completely in some parts of the U.S. during the pandemic, even as the country’s unsheltered population appears to be growing.
NIH Director On The State Of The Pandemic In The U.S.
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins about the ongoing pandemic, delays in the mass vaccination campaign and the impending political transition.
‘I’ve Tried Everything’: Pandemic Has Cut Options For Kids With Mental Illness
When schools closed last spring, children with severe mental illnesses were cut off from the services they’d come to rely on. Many have since spiraled into emergency rooms and even police custody.
OPINION: Moral Tragedy Looms In Early Chaos Of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
As states suddenly expand the categories of people eligible for the first scarce shipments of vaccine, who will be watching to make sure those hit hardest by the pandemic aren’t left behind?
‘An Opening Bid’ — Experts React To Health Proposals In Biden’s Relief Plan
Health experts say Biden’s American Rescue Plan offers bold national leadership for tackling the country’s public health crisis. It will likely get pared down.
ICU Nurse Says Careless Attitudes Around COVID-19 Are ‘A Slap In The Face’
Lydia Mobley has experienced the pandemic’s deadliest days from the inside of a Michigan hospital. “You see people not wearing masks. And then you go to work and you watch people die,” the nurse says.
Trump Administration Will Let More Doctors Prescribe Drug To Fight Opioid Addiction
The change means that doctors will no longer need a special federal waiver in order to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication to treat opioid use disorder.
ICU Travel Nurse On Her Work During The Pandemic’s Deadliest Days
NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Lydia Mobley, an intensive care unit nurse with Fastaff Travel Nursing, about what it’s like to treat COVID-19 patients as the coronavirus continues to surge in the U.S.
In Philadelphia, Judges Rule Against Opening A Medical Site To Safely Inject Heroin
A federal appeals court ruled the effort by nonprofit Safehouse to open a “supervised injection site” to prevent overdose deaths is laudable but illegal under the so-called federal “crack house” law.
