As the nation responds to the police killing of George Floyd, we explore the public health impacts of police violence and what a public health response could look like.

Guest: Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, pediatrician and police violence researcher

Read the transcript and learn more on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/06/02/police-violence/

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With their business models upended by the coronavirus, hospitals are dusting off a decades-old idea: hospitalize patients in their own homes.

Guests: 

Bruce Leff, MD, Director, The Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, Johns Hopkins

Travis Messina, MBA, Cofounder and CEO, Contessa

Kavita Patel, MD, MPH, Nonresident Fellow, Brookings Institution

Raphael Rakowski, Cofounder and CEO, Medically Home

David Zaas, MD, MBA, President, Duke Raleigh Hopsital

For more about hospital care at home: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/28/home-sweet-hospital/

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Sites known as preprint servers post cutting-edge research in mere days. That speed has advantages during a health crisis, but it also comes with risks.

Guest: 

Richard Sever, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

For more about preprints visit: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/26/science-under-pressure/

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Requiring face masks in public during COVID-19 may be a good public health move but it may also be putting some people's health at risk.

Guest: 

Dr. Gabriel Felix, Psychiatry Resident at Cambridge Health Alliance

For more of Gabriel’s story: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/21/masking-problems/

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Some scientists argue we should intentionally infect volunteers with the coronavirus to get a vaccine sooner. How would it work?

Guests:

Lehua Gray, Challenge Trial Volunteer

Seema Shah, JD, Associate Director of Research Ethics, Lurie Children’s Hospital

Zeb Jamrozik, MD, PhD, Monash Bioethics Centre

Anna Durbin, MD, Professor of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Learn more about human challenge trials and read the transcript: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/19/challenge-trials

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The cosponsor of Colorado’s recently withdrawn public option bill shares what it was like to go from being on the eve of major health reform to the brink of an economic and health care catastrophe.

Guest:

Kerry Donovan, State Senator, Colorado District 5

For more information about Colorado's public option legislation: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/14/bill-interrupted/

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America’s public health agencies are fighting the coronavirus with phones and faxes rather than the real-time data they desperately need.

Guests:

Janet Hamilton, Executive Director, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists

Richard Danila, Deputy Epidemiologist for the state of Minnesota

Katie O’Donnell, Larimer County Health Department

Arien Malec, former federal health IT official

Julia Adler-Milstein, Professor of Medicine at UCSF

For more information about the state of the data driving testing, tracing and surveillance: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/12/what-the-fax

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Inside one county's efforts to use contact tracing to flatten the COVID-19 curve.

Guest: Tair Kiphibane, nurse, director of the infectious disease bureau in Salt Lake County, Utah.

For more information about contact tracing: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/07/disease-detectives/

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What happened to Medicaid during the last recession? And what can that teach us going into the next one?

Guests:

MaryAnne Lindeblad, Washington State Medicaid Director

Tom Betlach, Former Arizona Medicaid Director

Ben Sommers, MD, PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Harvard

Helen Levy, PhD, Research Professor, University of Michigan School

Get more information and read the transcript of this episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/05/medicaid-recession/

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The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled that insurers are owed $12 billion for losses they incurred in the early days of the Affordable Care Act. What are the origins and implications of this case?

Guests:

Larry Levitt, Executive Vice President for Health Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation

For more of our conversation with Larry: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/04/30/risk-corridors

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