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Cases of Covid-19 are on the rise again, but with public health fearing repulsion not only in public behavior (rushing back to normal), but even suggesting re-implementation of preventative measures. I don’t know from the elected officials.
Meanwhile, the Senate couldn’t (again) collect even a simple majority of votes on a bill to write abortion protection in federal law.Judgment Roe v. Wade..
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KHN, Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call.
Among the points from this week’s episode:
- The United States has exceeded the threshold of one million deaths from covid this week. However, it is arguably an underestimate, and many positive home tests have not been reported to public health authorities, so it is impossible to know how big the problem is with the coronavirus.
- Parliamentarians and the administration further complicate matters. The administration has pushed forward with various messages. On the one hand, it is throwing a continuation of a pandemic so serious that it requires tens of billions of dollars in additional emergency funding. At the same time, it broadcasts that you don’t have to do anything like masking to fight it.
- Meanwhile, the warning lights are flashing for public health and future pandemics. Proceedings in Florida that led to the termination of interstate highway masking requirements on planes and other public transport not only confused state and local public health authorities and authorities, but also others. Has a chilling effect on the skin. Non-covid-related efforts that fall under traditional public health services. For example, opposition to the Covid vaccine requirement has spilled over into other vaccination requirements that have been in place for decades.
- The abortion debate has become more partisan at the federal level, with Democrats almost universally supporting the right to abortion and Republicans almost universally opposed, but not at the state level. Among the governors, in particular, there are still Democrats who oppose the right to abortion and Republicans who support it.
- Divisions within the Republican Party seem to have surfaced on this issue.For years, the Republicans have made it fairly clear that their goal was to overthrow. egg It is up to the state to decide how to regulate abortion. Now, there is talk about promoting national bans. Also, some elements of the party seem to support criminalizing women seeking abortion. This is an uncommon measure.
- There are also many concerns that abortion restrictions and restrictions have a chilling effect on women’s ability to receive contraception and access to medical services after a miscarriage.
- Capitol Hill has reported record low insurers this week, but lawmakers aren’t enacting legislation to continue the temporary subsidies that enable these indemnity numbers.
In addition, as an additional credit, panelists also recommend talking about your favorite health policy for the week that you think you should read.
Julie Robner: KHN’s “Travel nurses see a rapid change in fate as Covid Money runs out,” Hannah Norman
Joan Kenen: Politico Magazine’s “How One Texas Clinic Explains the Threat to Contraception” Joanne Kenen and Alice Miranda Ollstein
Alice Miranda Olstein: Politico’s “Tsunami”: Legal Issues Threatening Public Health Policy, Crysta Marr
Sandhya Raman: Jesse Hermann’s CQ Roll Call “End of COVID-19 Emergency Dangerous Goods Treatment”
Also discussed in this week’s podcast:
KHN’s “Spillover effects of abortion restrictions disrupt miscarriage care,” Charlotte Huff
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