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The U.S. should implement a short-course certified nurse assistant program to add health care workers to the frontlines and employ people who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis.

Primarily testing symptomatic patients could become a much more valuable strategy if a treatment is developed in the coming months.

Schaeffer Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Bob Kocher will join the public-private effort, which is aiming for record-level testing across the state.

Individuals verified as “certified recovered” from COVID-19 could help jumpstart the economy by working in health care, transportation, retail and more.

Unlike other countries, it has so far avoided both isolation and economic ruin.

Human health is obviously crucial, but epidemiological models should not ignore economic and ethical considerations.

Social isolation measures only for those at highest risk and aggressive contact tracing are more effective and less expensive than sending everyone home and shutting down the economy, Hay and Gong write.

The research suggests office-based providers are adopting biosimilars earlier and faster than hospital-based providers, indicating provider awareness, financial incentives and information-sharing might be important levers to examine further.

Researchers tried to untangle the complicated connection between feelings of vulnerability and behavior change in response to the coronavirus.

Melnick focuses on the need and options to regulate hospital out-of-network emergency prices. Using data from California, he analyzes potential benchmarks for setting these prices.