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Government
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Biden administration pledges open access to briefings after AHCJ raises concerns
A spokesman for President Biden’s administration has pledged that any legitimate reporter who signs up with the White House press…
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Court settlement grants Florida paper access to COVID-19 reports
The state of Florida last week settled a lawsuit with the Orlando Sentinel, agreeing to provide weekly COVID-19 reports within…
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Who is Jeffrey Zients, the soon-to-be White House coronavirus czar?
As President-elect Joe Biden develops a strategy for ending the pandemic, the person who will be in charge of executing…
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AHCJ to track access problems in real time – with your help
AHCJ’s Right to Know Committee is launching a new strategy for tracking and combating the obstacles that health care reporters…
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Inspection data could prompt stories about COVID-19 problems in hospitals
AHCJ has updated its public HospitalInspections.org website to give people a better glimpse of potential COVID-19 problems at some hospitals…
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Where are the aging experts in Biden’s COVID-19 task force?
Consider this: COVID-19 has hospitalizations and deaths among those over 65 are five and 90 times higher respectively than in…
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Supreme Court case on Affordable Care Act could have far-reaching effects on Medicaid expansion, pre-existing condition protections
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether it should strike down the individual mandate and…
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Biden coronavirus task force members announced
If you want to know how seriously President-elect Joe Biden is taking SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, look no…
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President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 plan includes national testing strategy, boost in contact tracing
President-elect Biden reportedly plans to announce his COVID-19 task force on Monday, sending Americans a signal that getting the pandemic…
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Brief compares candidates’ positions on older Americans’ health
A new explainer from The Commonwealth Fund examines how the two presidential candidates will or have approached health issues of…