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A Testing Strategy to Get Americans Back to Work and School
A new USC Schaeffer Center white paper proposes an innovative strategy — pooled testing — that could lower COVID-19 testing costs for schools and businesses by half or more compared to frequent individual testing.
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USC Schaeffer Webinar Addresses Strategies to Reduce the Threat of COVID-19
COVID-19 is a public health crisis and threatens the world with economic disaster. To address how to mitigate the coronavirus’ rising danger to lives and livelihoods, the Schaeffer Center gathered experts to discuss.
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What If We Gave Hospitals Real Incentives To Prepare For The Next Pandemic?
COVID-19 makes it clear that many hospitals are not adequately prepared to handle pandemics. Kocher writes that we need to rethink the way we incentivize hospitals to handle pandemic response.
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States Are Being Crushed by the Coronavirus. Only This Can Help.
In an op-ed for The New York Times, Fiedler argues Congress must step in and offer quick and generous aid to states before they must slash services and drag down the economy.
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Where Is Big Data When We Need It Most?
Electronic health records — which doctors and hospitals have been collecting for a decade — could powerfully and precisely guide the pandemic response.
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Study Finds Surprise Medical Bills Springing from Ambulatory Surgery Centers
One-in-twelve episodes at ambulatory surgery centers had the potential to result in a surprise medical bill, according to the study.
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Are We Overreacting to the Coronavirus? Let’s Do the Math.
When the risk is extreme, such as it is for global warming or COVID-19, public policies should be based on credible worst-case scenarios. Too much is at stake to act otherwise.
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How California’s Smog Alert System Could be Adapted to Fight the Coronavirus
California can manage the coronavirus by adapting a public health tool it pioneered — smog alerts.
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COVID-19 Is Normalizing Telehealth and That’s a Good Thing
Stuck at home, people are consulting doctors over the internet rather than in person—an approach to healthcare with many lasting benefits.
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American Capitalism Is Failing Trump’s Base as White Working-Class ‘Deaths of Despair’ Rise
The astronomical costs of health care are draining jobs, hope and opportunity from working-class Americans.
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