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JUNE 19, 2024

Priscilla Agnew-Hines will never be able to forget that day in early 2020. On March 26, just weeks after Covid-19 officially became a global pandemic, her son died from an overdose. Larry, 41, was a chef, a drummer for his gospel church and the son who challenged Priscilla’s barbecue skills during summer cookouts.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

  In August of 2020, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science made headlines with its finding that Black infants were half as likely to survive to their first birthday when they were cared for by white doctors instead of Black ones.

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JULY 31, 2024

These new additions join 12 other risk factors outlined by the commission, affiliated with University College London, in previous reports on dementia prevention, intervention, and care in 2017 and 2020.

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Diabetes 363

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AUGUST 28, 2024

Fatal drug overdoses shot up during the peak of Covid-19 in 2020. And as the dust settled on the pandemic, it quickly became clear that one demographic group had fared far worse than any other: Native Americans. 

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Today, it is no longer a new public health enigma, but the outlook for sufferers is no better than when the condition was first recognized in early 2020. Hopes were raised in December 2020 when Congress provided $1.15 Long Covid goes by  many names. Although its prevalence has recently decreased to 6% of the U.S.

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APRIL 16, 2024

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration will help 50 countries identify and respond to infectious diseases, with the goal of preventing pandemics like the Covid-19 outbreak  that suddenly  halted normal life  around the globe in 2020.

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Communication 336

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MAY 16, 2024

Started in 2020 , it’s an effort to boost the numbers of both Indigenous physicians and doctors willing to treat patients in rural areas experiencing severe physician shortages. Read the rest…

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Medical Schools 364

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JUNE 27, 2024

Drinking, which was already on the rise before 2020, became a coping mechanism for overburdened parents, burnt-out workers, the traumatized, and the bored. In the pit of the pandemic, with no one to see and nowhere to go, and horrors unfolding daily outside the front door, there was for many a reliable bright spot: the 5 p.m.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

It was a dramatic call to action by the American Heart Association: The organization declared its decade-long goal culminating in 2020 was to slash deaths from cardiovascular disease and stroke by 20%. It also promised in its scientific journal to move all Americans toward “ideal cardiovascular health.”

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MARCH 28, 2024

While an increasingly anxious world watched a new coronavirus spread across the globe in early 2020, veteran immunologist Rafi Ahmed quickly grasped that his field was about to experience something truly extraordinary.

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MARCH 4, 2024

The Covid group was compared with an uninfected control group and a group of patients who had influenza during the same period from 2020 to 2022. AIRDs include rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren syndrome, mixed connective tissue disease, vasculitis, and other conditions. Read the rest…

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APRIL 3, 2024

In 2020 and 2021, Covid-19 was the second-leading cause, pushing stroke to third position.    Read the rest…

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AUGUST 20, 2024

I’ve been masking consistently in public since 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic began, because I have a kidney transplant and will take immunosuppressant medication for the rest of my life. If I lived just 60 miles east of my New Jersey town, I would be under threat of a fine or jail time every time I left the house.

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Hospitals Vaccines 364

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JULY 11, 2024

in early 2020, has been scrutinized by numerous case studies, after-action reports , and Congressional fact-finding hearings. To prepare for a potential H5N1 avian influenza jump to humans, schools need to be preparing for the scenario now before a sustained transmission event occurs. The response to Covid-19, which first appeared in the U.S.

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JUNE 4, 2024

But in 2020, they became, almost overnight, a hot commodity. Carbon dioxide monitors have been around for decades. All of a sudden, people wanted them to help assess the safety of indoor spaces — to gauge the likelihood of breathing in coronavirus-laced particles that until very recently had been in someone else’s lungs.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

In the spring of 2020, Jamal Clay , a gifted young man who grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago, died by suicide. He was 19 years old. Jamal’s loved ones describe him as creative and talented, a leader in different youth-focused organizations in his community who supported and cared for those he loved.

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JUNE 4, 2024

In theory, they’re supposed to power a basic pain management device she ordered from a company called Zynex Medical in 2020. For two years, the batteries and electrode pads arrived each month at her home in West Boylston, Mass. In reality, they sit in her closet, taking up an annoying amount of space. 

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Packaging 362

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

years, down from 77 years in 2020 and the lowest level the CDC has recorded since 1996. between 2020 and 2021, while death rates from unintentional injuries — one-third of which come from overdoses — rose by 12.3%. A baby born in the U.S. in 2021 has a life expectancy of 76.4

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A family of viruses known as influenza B/Yamagata has not been seen since March 2020, when flu circulation worldwide declined to very low levels in the face of the onslaught of Covid and the protections people took to avoid contracting it.

Vaccines 364

Vaccines 364

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They found that roughly a quarter of Americans — 27% — said they have not too much or no confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interests, compared to 12% who said the same in April 2020. “Ratings of medical scientists mirror the trend seen in ratings of scientists generally,” the report notes.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Everyone has things that, looking back, they would have done differently in the early days of 2020, had they known how the Covid-19 pandemic would tear across the globe. But those regrets may be particularly poignant for global leaders whose actions (or lack thereof) had direct impacts on how Covid-19 spread.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

  Segan was chief medical officer at Olympus from 2020 to 2023. The Food and Drug Administration has tapped Ross Segan, a former device industry exec and Army veteran, to lead its division charged with ensuring medical device safety. 

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The latest rollout of Covid-19 vaccines has been messy, with people facing more challenges getting one of the updated shots than they may have experienced since the frantic start of the very first vaccination campaign in late 2020 and the first half of 2021.

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Vaccines 363

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

But the underlying message to doctors in late 2020 was persistent and urgent: Hit your targets to see more patients. The emails from UnitedHealth Group managers were filled with exclamation marks and pleasantries about the weather. We need to bring in more money.

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Documentation Vaccines 364

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APRIL 18, 2024

That’s because public health advice in early 2020 focused on sanitizing surfaces, not protecting against a virus that could be spread through the air. With everyone scrubbing their groceries, mail, even library books, good luck finding antibacterial wipes or disinfectant sprays back then.

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JULY 1, 2024

Ascension has lost almost $4 billion on operations from fiscal 2020 through fiscal 2023, triggering deals to offload almost 30 hospitals. The year after former CEO Anthony Tersigni and former finance chief Anthony Speranzo stepped down, their sprawling empire of roughly 140 hospitals underwent the ultimate stress test: the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hospitals 362

Hospitals 362

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

Overcoming a lack of broader interest in their work and scientific challenges, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman made key discoveries about messenger RNA that enabled scientific teams to start developing the tool into therapies, immunizations, and — as the pandemic spread in 2020 — vaccines targeting the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

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Immunity Immunization Vaccines 364

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

The inclusion of race in dozens of these tools has sparked vigorous debates and roiled medicine since 2020, when many physicians began pointing out that the tools rely on faulty science that depicts race as biological, and that they can harm some already marginalized patients by making it seem they are healthier than they really are.

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Hospitals 333

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

But in early 2020, the DEA issued an emergency waiver that allowed health providers to prescribe the medications remotely. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.) urged the DEA to continue allowing health providers to prescribe buprenorphine, a controlled substance used to treat opioid addiction, without requiring an in-person visit. 

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Controlled Substances 339

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

years in 2019 to 77 in 2020 and 76.1 At least partially as a consequence of over 1 million Covid-19 deaths, life expectancy in the U.S. has declined significantly over the past few years, falling from 78.8 in 2022 — undoing over two decades of progress. and Italy all enjoy a life expectancy of 80 years or more.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Heart disease is killing fewer Americans overall, however, cardiovascular deaths where obesity was listed as a key contributing factor have tripled between 1999 and 2020, according to a new study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

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JUNE 10, 2024

  In a paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday, researchers found that the percentage of women represented in high-risk medical device trials did not increase from 2010 to 2020. Women generally made up just 33% of participants when the team reviewed 195 trials published from 2016 to 2022.

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JUNE 26, 2024

Rural counties across the country — defined as those with cities of up to 50,000 people — grew one-quarter of a percent from 2020 to 2022. Department of Agriculture indicates that the population in rural areas is rising a bit. Read the rest…

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO — It was during some of the darkest days of the pandemic — November 2020 — when Melissa Lawson, 36, was helicoptered from an emergency room in Santa Rosa, Calif., to a hospital here, her blood so thick with white blood cells doctors thought she might not survive the night.

Hospitals 359

Hospitals 359

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Between 2020 and 2022, 1,155 of the 1,962 experts who reviewed studies for The BMJ, JAMA, The Lancet, and The New England Journal of Medicine received some form of payment.

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Drug Development 360

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

The decision is a change of heart from federal prosecutors, who originally declined to intervene in the whistleblower case back in 2020. Read the rest…

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Health Insurance Companies 291

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JUNE 4, 2024

Specifically, the average shortage lasted for more than three years in 2023 compared to about two years in 2020, and 27 of the 125 drugs in short supply were not available for more than five years. And 53% of new shortages occurred among generic sterile injectable medicines, according to the report from U.S.

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