Harold Pollack
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Federalism Complicates the Response to the COVID-19 Health and Economic Crisis: What Can Be Done? | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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Harold Pollack
Even more from @JHPPL. Nicole Huberfeld, Sarah H. Gordon, and David K. Jones "Federalism Complicates the Response to the COVID-19 Health and Economic Crisis: What Can Be Done?" (cc @nhuberfeld1 @dklinejones)
read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/… pic.twitter.com/2dwJ1kXphL
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Ideological Sorting of Physicians in Both Geography and the Workplace | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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Harold Pollack
New in @JHPPL. Another sign of our polarization: Ideological sorting of physicians in geography and the workplace. Dem/GOP physicians in GOP/Dem areas are twice as likely to relocate as their better-matched ideological counterparts. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/… pic.twitter.com/mjT6yCX8kx
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Numbers stuff every reporter should know | The Incidental Economist
I was emailing with some journalist-friends about what reporters on policy or social science beats should really know. It's unreasonable to expect reporters to have the full skill-set of academic
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Harold Pollack
I found this 2013 post, where I proposed a set of quantitative skills every reporter should have to cover health care+public policy. These are roughly the skills I'd expect of the median undergraduate public policy major. Curious what others think. (0/)
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‘I Can’t Turn My Brain Off’: PTSD and Burnout Threaten Medical Workers
Before Covid-19, health care workers were already vulnerable to depression and suicide. Mental health experts now fear even more will be prone to trauma-related disorders.
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Harold Pollack
This is an essential opportunity to deploy the social work workforce to support men and women on the front lines, who are in pain and need support.
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Long-Term Care Facility Outbreaks COVID-19 | IDPH
Long Term Care Facilities in Illinois with Cases of COVID-19 among Residents and Staff Frequently Asked Questions Information provided below is provisional, subject to change, and updated weekly. Facilities report data to their local health...
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Harold Pollack
Catastrophe. I count 1,100 reported COVID reported deaths in nursing homes and related long-term residential and care facilities here in Cook County. If anything, this is likely an undercount.
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University of Chicago's Transition Study
University of Chicago's Transition Study. 57 likes. Are you caring for a young adult with a developmental and or intellectual disability who is transitioning or has transitioned out of high school in...
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Harold Pollack
Doctoral student @TonieSadler is interviewing families+professionals who care for/work with young adults aged 18-35 with IDD in Chicago. If that describes you--please go to her study's Facebook Page. Tonie is good people+she's doing important work (pls RT)
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PEPFAR — 15 Years and Counting the Lives Saved | NEJM
Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — PEPFAR — 15 Years and Counting the Lives Saved
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Harold Pollack
I should say that PEPFAR belongs on any goodness thread. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… A genuinely great achievement initiated by President George W Bush and pursued by a bipartisan coalition. It has saved millions of lives. (17/)
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Thousands will go uninsured in the Covid-19 outbreak because Republicans rejected Medicaid expansion
A new study shows the current coronavirus-driven cost of states rejecting Medicaid expansion.
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In my view, no medical, social service, or public health organization should hold annual meetings in states that reject Medicaid expansion. vox.com/2020/5/5/21247… via @voxdotcom
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Trump’s Disinfectant Remark Raises a Question About the ‘Very Stable Genius’
The president has often said he is exceptionally smart. His recent suggestion about injecting disinfectants was not.
Illinois COVID-19 Response Fund
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Harold Pollack
A request to followers: My wonderful @UChicagoSSA colleague Julia Henly just lost her mom, age 90, to COVID-19. If you are able, the family has requested donations to the Illinois COVID-19 Response Fund in honor of Joan Cranston Henly. ilcovidresponsefund.org RT's appreciated.
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Episode 991: Lives Vs. The Economy
Is it worth it to shut down the economy to save lives? How do you know when to reopen it? Should we let people die to save the economy? Economists say each human life is worth about $10 million dollars. How did they get that number? | Subscribe to...
One Rich N.Y. Hospital Got Warren Buffett’s Help. This One Got Duct Tape.
The inequities of New York City’s health care system are clear at a public hospital in a section of Brooklyn hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
Harold Pollack
As long as there isn’t any just God out there, I don’t see what the problem is....
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‘Sadness’ and Disbelief From a World Missing American Leadership
The coronavirus pandemic is shaking bedrock assumptions about U.S. exceptionalism. This is perhaps the first global crisis in more than a century where no one is even looking for Washington to lead.
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Harold Pollack
Heartbreaking. An era of American global leadership ended on Election Day, 2016. Now this.
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DACA students excluded from emergency stimulus grants
Undocumented students dealing with campus closures are not eligible for emergency stimulus grants, the Education Department said.
Illinois Launches ‘Call4Calm’ Program to Provide Mental Health Care for Residents
Calling the coronavirus pandemic a “deeply unprecedented moment,” Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s administration announced a new program that will allow Illinois residents to talk to a mental health professional, free of charge, during the...
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Harold Pollack
If you're an Illinois resident worried or depressed--or you need help w/basic needs, a new free service may help. Just text “TALK” to 552020. You will receive a response connecting you to a mental health professional. For Spanish, text “HABLAR” to 552020.
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LaGuardia Reads Comics on the Radio - 1945
Newsreel from 1945 covering the New York City newspaper delivery strike. NYC Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia reads "Dick Tracy" to the kiddies ... with a little com...
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Harold Pollack
You know who would have been awesome during this moment of physical distancing? Mayor LaGuardia.
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No More School Districts!
At the root of educational inequality: the rich and poor districts that keep education segregated. Here are the three reforms we need.
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Harold Pollack
As a Biden-supporting neoliberal sellout, etc—my most genuinely radical opinion is that we should (a) end local school funding, and (b) end local school districts as a thing. democracyjournal.org/magazine/55/no… twitter.com/danagoldstein/…
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The Mobilization That Must Start Now
With Coronavirus bearing down on our economy, we must deploy all our resources now to survive—so that one day we may thrive.
Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups
Mr. Prince, a contractor close to the Trump administration, contacted veteran spies for operations by Project Veritas, the conservative group known for conducting stings on news organizations and other groups.
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Harold Pollack
If you are supporting President Trump, you bear moral responsibility for the erosion of democratic norm now occurring. That's not ok. || Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups
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