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The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities

A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. economy, jobs, and peoples’ household finances — in particular, medical spending. In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. This broad-spanning patient… Read More »

Doctor who said Canada doesn’t need COVID vaccine calls online critics ‘hyenas’ in $6.8M libel suit

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Health Canada The legal action targets tweets that began after Gill wrote that society has existing COVID defences in the form of ‘the Truth … T-cell immunity … Hydroxychloroquine’ Author of the article: Tom Blackwell Publishing date: Mar 04, 2021 • 22 hours ago • 5 minute read • 1092 Comments Doctors… Read More »

CDC lifts pandemic restriction, will allow migrant child facilities to fill to 100% capacity to handle surge

The government is reportedly abandoning its 50% capacity requirement for migrant child care centers to allow facilities to hit 100% capacity despite the coronavirus pandemic. An internal document from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that coronavirus protocols are being relaxed in an effort to detain the thousands of unaccompanied children arriving every… Read More »

Fewer Illicit Drug Seizures Seen During Lockdowns

FRIDAY, March 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Seizures of illegal drugs fell sharply in the United States during early COVID-19 lockdowns, but spiked once stay-at-home orders eased. Researchers studied seizures of marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl in five locations between March 2019 (a year before the pandemic began in the United States) through September… Read More »