Contracted staffing issues in Missouri reveal broader crisis in hospitals

March 6, 2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

Early this week, I had a big story published in The Missouri Independent, as part of the Documenting COVID-19 project’s ongoing collaboration with that nonprofit newsroom. While this was a local story, to me, the piece provides important insights about the type of support that is actually needed in U.S. hospitals right now: not temporary assistance, but long-term, structural change.

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States treating COVID-19 as “endemic” is leading to shifts in data collection and reporting

February 20, 2022.Reading time 16 minutes.

Some states are making major shifts in the ways they collect and report COVID-19 data. State public health departments are essentially moving to monitor COVID-19 more like the way they monitor the flu: as a disease that can pose a serious public health threat and deserves some attention, but does not entirely dictate how people live their lives.

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