There Is No Post-Covid
With few healthcare lessons learned, pandemic mandates are being lifted, and we're becoming increasingly resigned to live with the risk.
Healthcare
Can Anyone Figure Out the CDC Guidelines?
Covid rates have never been higher. Yet people are behaving as if the pandemic is over. But with so much inscrutable advice, is it any wonder?
What Happens When the COVID Empathy Runs Out?
As the pandemic has raged on, underlying problems within the American health care system have been exacerbated, and health care workers are feeling the effects.
Women Doctors Leaving Medicine Is a Crisis
The cruel cocktail of sexism, pay inequity, and burnout has led to a critical shortage of women physicians. And it could be putting us all at risk.
The GOP Is Going After Trans Healthcare
LGBTQ people already face misdiagnosis, harassment, and refusal of treatment by the medical establishment. Trump’s Dept. of Health and Human Services is about to make it much worse.
Is Healthtech Failing Our Aging Population?
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, but new apps and devices often overlook seniors. And when it comes to health care, this is an oversight we can't afford.
What If the Pre-existing Condition Mandate Is Repealed?
It's not just people with disabilities who are at risk. Half of non-elderly Americans have preexisting conditions and could find themselves uninsured, sick, and out of luck.
While He Was Tweeting: The Take a Knee Edition, Week 35
The chaos President was in peak form this weekend, baiting Kim Jong Un and stirring racial tensions, while the rest of America fought to save healthcare.
While He Was Tweeting: Trump’s Worst Week Edition, Week 27
This week brought NSFW interviews, horrifying speeches to Boy Scouts, calls for police violence and, yep, Reince Priebus got fired. While the White House was in chaos, a lot of other things happened. Here’s what you missed.
That Time NPR Did Not Consider All Things
What a flubbed abortion-access story can teach us about the "fake news" era.
