Show 1252: The Impact of COVID-19 on American Health Care

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Kids & Family

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Over the last year, hospitals and their intensive care units have been stretched to the breaking point caring for the huge number of people desperately ill with the coronavirus. What is the impact of COVID-19 on American health care? Will the changes we have seen to date continue? Who Pays for COVID Care? Days and […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.
0:12.4	com. of health care
0:15.0	care been impacted by COVID-19.
0:18.7	Have some people been billed because they were negative for the virus.
0:23.0	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady.
0:27.0	Dr. Elizabeth Dr Elizabeth Rosenthal is an expert on public health and the business of health care.
0:39.0	I did so many hospitals, clinics, and other parts of our health care system fail in the face of the
0:45.1	pandemic.
0:46.5	Could we have been better prepared?
0:48.8	Who pays for COVID-care?
0:51.5	How will health care handle long haul syndrome is it time to reconsider
0:56.7	how we pay for health care coming up on the people's pharmacy how health care
1:01.2	could focus again on healing instead of profit. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, vaccines are working to protect health workers from catching COVID-19.
1:22.0	That's the conclusion from a few research letters published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week.
1:28.0	In one study, health care workers at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of California,
1:35.8	Los Angeles, were vaccinated starting in December 2020.
1:41.1	They also were tested for asymptomatic COVID-19 infections.
1:45.0	Within about six weeks, more than 28,000 people had had both doses of the vaccine.
1:52.0	37 of them tested positive, but only seven of them got that
1:57.1	positive test result two weeks or more after the second dose. At the time of the study, there was a surge of infections
2:05.2	in Southern California.
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