COVID-19 Archives

04.01.2022 Megan Ranney

Megan Ranney

Dr. Megan Ranney is an emergency physician, researcher and advocate for innovative approaches to health. Her research focuses on the intersection between digital health, violence prevention, and population health.

Fellow Barbara Espinosa

03.28.2022 a graph of survival and social isolation

Recovering in Isolation

Severely isolated patients had a 119% higher risk of death within one year of ICU admission compared to the most socially-networked patients.

Fellow Hannah Tremont

03.24.2022 a graph of a number of people with blue squares

Is Covid Killing Young Love?

Adolescent couples’ in-person and sexual interactions decreased compared to the period before Covid lockdowns, though by small amounts.

Fellow Connor McCombs

03.18.2022 Saru Jayaraman

Health Equity

Saru Jayaraman

Saru Jayaraman is the president of One Fair Wage and director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. She launched One Fair Wage to end subminimum wage payments for all employees in the United States. She talked with Public Health Post about the current work of One Fair Wage, how the pandemic affected service industry workers, and the health impacts of Covid-19 on the restaurant industry and tipped employees.

Fellow Bethany Hallenborg

03.03.2022 covid overdose map

A Surge in Overdose Deaths During Covid-19

Almost all states experienced increased rates of fatal drug overdose from 2019 to 2020.

Guest Authors Kevin Griffith, Samantha G. Auty

02.21.2022 subway car in empty station

Working from Home? Commuting Beyond Covid-19

Covid-19 and the resulting policy responses negatively impacted public transit ridership in 94 metropolitan areas.

Guest Authors Kenneth B. Medlock, III, Ted Temzelides, Shih Yu (Elsie) Hung

02.15.2022 covid knocking dominoes over

Covid-19's Wide Ranging Impacts

Public Health – Seattle & King County worked with partners to access new, timely data to monitor Covid-19 indicators for better decision-making.

Guest Authors Abigail Sekar, Eva Wong, Amy Laurent

12.09.2021 Kevin Churchwell

Kevin Churchwell

Kevin Churchwell, MD, president and CEO of Boston Children's Hospital, talks with PHP about why it's so important to focus on children's health.

Fellow Rubina Veerakone

12.03.2021 Illustration of person in hospital bed

Health Equity

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Covid-19 Testing and Outcomes

Covid-19 disease, hospitalization and death disparities loom large among Latinos in a California study.

Guest Authors Mireille Jacobson, Tom Y. Chang, Manisha Shah, Rajiv Pramanik, Samir B. Shah

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