This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. We know that Kaiser is notorious for cutting corners, but the recent email sent to all Kaiser employees that the hospital would no longer be...
This week the Biden administration announced that they are making free home tests and “high quality” masks available, to help curb the omicron surge. So far, they have purchased 1 billion tests, and plan to distribute the first 500 million through a new website...
As people return from various holiday activities and students go back to school, many want to do the responsible thing and get tested for COVID to protect others around them. But the problem is, where can you find a test? They’ve run out at drugstores, and across the...
With school starting again, students, parents, teachers, other school personnel, and many community members are incredibly anxious about the spread of COVID, especially among young people who are not yet eligible for the vaccines. And we are right to be anxious. One...
Report From Someone Trying to Roll Out Accurate Testing and Reporting at a Huge Public University Many of us wonder why the testing is taking so long to roll out in the U.S., a presumably developed country. One reason is a lack of a centralized health records system,...
