Category: Public Health

Fauci warns of ‘surge upon a surge’; Moderna seeks emergency approval for COVID-19 vaccine — 6 updates

By Becker's Hospital Review - Healthcare News in Becker's Hospital Review, Channels, Featured, Public Health
November 30, 2020

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OSHA Let Employers Decide Whether to Report Health Care Worker Deaths. Many Didn’t.

By Aneri Pattani and Robert Lewis and Christina Jewett in California, COVID-19, Health Industry, Hospitals, Kaiser Health News, Lost On The Frontline, Public Health, states
November 30, 2020

Four workers died at a facility with one of the largest U.S. outbreaks, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administration never conducted an inspection. It’s a pattern that’s played out across the nation, a KHN investigation finds.

Thousands of Doctors’ Offices Buckle Under Financial Stress of COVID

By Laura Ungar in COVID-19, Doctors, Health Industry, Kaiser Health News, Public Health, states
November 30, 2020

Across the nation, primary care practices that were already struggling are closing, victims of the pandemic’s financial fallout. And this is reducing access to health care, especially in rural and other regions already short on doctors.

How Pharma Money Colors Operation Warp Speed’s Quest to Defeat COVID

By Rachana Pradhan in COVID-19, investigation, Kaiser Health News, Public Health, Trump Administration, Vaccines
November 30, 2020

A Trump administration maneuver allows executives who are leading the federal effort to keep investments in drug companies that would benefit from the pandemic response.