Medicaid enrollment is up across the country, including North Carolina, which means costs are up, too. States don't have the flexibility to borrow and print money as the federal government does, so planning for the future is especially important when facing economic uncertainty.
COVID-19 revealed severe issues in the U.S. health care system, including the distribution of health care professionals and the restrictions we put on those professionals. The report calls for a massive overhaul of how states educate and credential health care professionals in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the United States, millions lost their jobs due to government-mandated shutdowns and plummeting demand for certain goods and services. Tragically, this massive job…
When Governor Cooper, NC Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Secretary Mandy Cohen, and others go before the television cameras to give North Carolinians a COVID-19 update, the Cooper…
Dr. Mandy Cohen, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) secretary, gave a presentation before the NC House Health Committee on June 17. This was the week…
My colleagues Don van der Vaart and Jon Sanders have argued in a series of reports on the “fog of COVID-19 data” that coronavirus statistics are being miscalculated, misconstrued,…
One of the most challenging aspects of the response to COVID-19 is the lack of information known about the virus before it started to spread throughout the world. How is…
Given doubts about the quality of COVID-19 data collection, it’s very useful to know whether a state is witnessing more deaths than usual. All the more so when the…
posted July 1, 2020 by Dr. Donald R. van der Vaart
There has been a lot of chatter about spikes in COVID-19 infections. The North Carolina media is maintaining a somewhat constant reporting of the numbers with very little discussion of…
