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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains.

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Is an Asylum-Seeker’s Diabetes Being Dangerously Mismanaged?

Insulin Nation

Grassroots Leadership and American Gateways are calling for the medical release of Brenda Menjivar Guardado, a woman from El Salvador who is seeking asylum and is being detained at the T. However, Painter says he’s heard of many complaints of inadequate health care at the facility, mainly concerning mental health care.

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Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

Health is translating across all definitions for U.S. voters in November 2020: for health care and physical health, financial health, mental health, and societal health. And the energy to cast votes is a signal sparking Americans recognizing the importance of health citizenship.

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