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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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So they need mainstream healthcare, and they need housing support. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients? There’s often both a floor and a ceiling, because let’s say they have a pension or they have government benefits. HPV vaccine.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. We do talk about healthcare policy. Asian hate is, again, another umbrella term for racism and discrimination.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

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We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . Their vaccines aren’t as effective.