Last summer, the Trump administration let the contract lapse with the firm maintaining the ventilator stockpile. Now, ventilators are reaching states in disrepair. nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/… @SangerNYT @KannoYoungs @nkulish
Margot Sanger-Katz
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Margot Sanger-Katz
@sangerkatz
Covering health care metaphors at @nytimes @upshotnyt. Popcorn enthusiast.
On Signal: @sangerkatz.01
Joined September 2011
- The mouth is part of the body. But dentistry has been kept separate from the rest of medicine, and is almost always left out of health insurance. Congress is looking to start changing that--by adding a dental benefit to Medicare for the first time.
- This sort of rapid shift in American public opinion basically never happens. nytimes.com/interactive/20… @Nate_Cohn @KevinQ
- We have published an extremely detailed map of where people are wearing masks in the United States. nytimes.com/interactive/20… @jshkatz @KevinQ
- In the Covid winter, it's hard to know what's safe, and what's appropriate. We asked 700 epidemiologists how they're living. nytimes.com/2020/12/04/ups… @clairecm @qdbui
- Not taking hydroxychloroquine.Potus doctor note on his treatment >
- If you think the Coronavirus death numbers are exaggerated, please look at this @jshkatz chart. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
- The president endorsed several bills that would have weakened these protections if they had passed. He had no role in passing Obamacare, which established them. He supports a lawsuit to erase them.Mini Mike Bloomberg is spending a lot of money on False Advertising. I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare, you have it now, while at the same time winning the fight to rid you of the expensive, unfair and very unpopular Individual Mandate.....
- Since Covid arrived, 179,000 more Americans have died than would in a normal year. nytimes.com/interactive/20… @DeniseDSLu @jshkatz
- Replying to @sangerkatzHere’s a summary of their answers. Most of them are comfortable opening their mail without precautions. But few plan to attend a concert any time soon. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
- Replying to @sangerkatzFirst of all, a fact that may surprise you given some of the public debate about masks: Mask use is pretty high in the United States, overall. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
- To give a sense of the impact of Florida's coming abortion law, take a look at how it changes how far women throughout the South will need to go to get an abortion after 6 weeks of pregnancy. nytimes.com/interactive/20… @clairecm @qdbui
- Replying to @sangerkatz @clairecm and 2 othersThe quotes that touch on coronavirus are particularly interesting to me. nytimes.com/2020/07/01/ups…
