527 - The White House's National Action Plan On Long COVID
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The Biden administration's action plan for responding to long COVID is a good start, but much more is required to truly address the impacts of this "mass disabling event" on health, safety, and the economy. Journalist Ryan Prior and inaugural White House Director for Disability Policy Kim Knackstedt talk with Stephanie Desmon about what is included in the nation's long COVID plan, what was left out, and how the plan could pave the way for responding to other chronic illnesses.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
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| 0:41.9 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to journalist Ryan Pryor and Kim Knoxstead, |
| 0:47.1 | who served as the White House's first director for disability policy from 2021 to 2022, |
| 0:53.7 | about holes in the nation's plan for dealing with the long-term |
| 0:57.4 | effects of COVID and how the government needs to do better for the sake of health, safety, |
| 1:02.5 | and the economy. Let's listen. Kim Knoxstead and Ryan Pryor, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:10.2 | Thank you for having us. |
| 1:11.5 | Happy to be here. |
| 1:13.0 | Today I'd like to talk to you about Biden's national action plan for longer-term impact of COVID. |
| 1:20.3 | Kim, could you tell me what is it and where is it lacking? |
| 1:25.1 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:26.9 | So earlier this month, President Biden and the Department of Health and Human |
| 1:32.0 | Services, or HHS will probably say throughout this time together, released a actually two reports |
| 1:40.4 | from a presidential memorandum earlier. Here know, here is the path forward on long COVID. |
| 1:48.1 | So one of those reports was a, we'll call it a laundry list of services that the federal |
| 1:53.8 | government can't provide if you have long COVID. The other is a national strategy on |
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