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What do COVID-19 and the bank crisis have in common? Social trust is essential to combat a public health crisis, and trustworthy information is critical to nurturing public trust. cayala The Hill

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Assuming that we will continue to gain ground against this coronavirus and that it will become endemic and manageable even if it doesn’t entirely disappear, there will still be other pandemics in the future. Have we learned the lessons of COVID-19? In particular, have we learned from our mistakes?

Study reveals linguistic disparities in COVID vaccine uptake, outcomes CIDRAP

A study of more than 850,000 people in Minnesota and Wisconsin finds a link between a preference to speak a non-English language and limited English proficiency and delayed time to first COVID-19 vaccination and increased rates of SARS-CoV-2–related hospitalization and death among some language-preference groups.

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The Biden administration will hang on to some Covid pandemic emergency powers Even though the Biden administration is ending its most high-profile Covid-19 emergency declaration next month, it’s still going to hold on to some pandemic-era powers. Rachel Cohrs STAT

...The Department of Health and Human Services gave governors a heads-up on Friday that it is planning to keep pharmacists’ ability to administer Covid-19 and flu vaccines past the end of the public health emergency.