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Category Archives: Public Health
Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis
In July, Blog for Iowa will present some different news sources on Feature Friday as the regular editors take summer break. This week is a blog post from International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War on the relationship between … Continue reading
Posted in gun control, Public Health
Tagged gun control, gun violence, IPPNW, public health
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Doing The Right Thing
Governor Kim Reynolds has neither the bandwidth nor expertise to manage the coronavirus pandemic. I didn’t vote for her, yet that is cold comfort. As COVID-19 cases increase in Iowa, and in all 50 states, her latest statement is evidence … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 Election campaign, Public Health
Tagged 2022 Election campaign, coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19 Vaccines, Kim Reynolds, public health, Reynolds and Covid-19
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Laundering Face Masks–Again
Laundering home sewn face masks is back on the to-do list. It looks like we’ll need them. On Monday I wrote we are not really taming the coronavirus in Iowa or in the United States as a whole. Too many … Continue reading
Posted in Public Health
Tagged Coronavirus, coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19, Covid-19 Vaccines, public health, Vaccine hesitancy
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Masking In The United States
I recently flew to Florida to help someone move to the Midwest, my first non-local trip since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. We convoyed from central Florida to Chicago, following major interstate … Continue reading
Posted in Public Health
Tagged coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19, living in society, masking, public health
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Just A Reminder:
If we have learned nothing in the past year, in order to have a functioning economy it surely doesn’t hurt to have a public health care system that works, with competent leadership that will act in the interest of all. … Continue reading
Public Health Approach To Gun Violence
On page A5 of Tuesday’s Cedar Rapids Gazette was the headline “75 shot in Chicago last weekend.” From 3 p.m. Friday until 6 a.m. Monday 12 people were killed and 63 wounded, mostly on the south and west sides of … Continue reading
Posted in gun control, Public Health
Tagged gun control, gun culture, gun violence, public health
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An Unadvertised Bomb Inside Repealing The ACA
Look out Kids, Mom and Dad may break you Filial responsibility. Ever hear of it? This is an old concept in law that goes back to the English poor laws in the 1600s. Stated simply, it means that children are … Continue reading
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Branstad, Health Care & Medicare, medicaid expansion, Medicare, Obamacare, Public Health, Republican hypocrisy, Republicn Policy
Tagged filial responsibility, repeal and replace
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The Courtney Report
I support the Governor’s goal to make Iowa the healthiest state in the nation by focusing on improving health outcomes and rewarding healthy behaviors. That is why the Senate has incorporated those ideas into SF 296, which would expand Medicaid … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Courtney, Courtney Report, Health Care & Medicare, medicaid expansion, Public Health
Tagged appointees, mental health, public safety, vulnerable Iowans
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Iowa Democrats, Clean Air and Socializing
At the Kirsten Running-Marquardt fundraiser last night, I sat in a row of chairs with a group of long-time Democratic party activists. Most local Democrats know them by name, Jean and Jix Lloyd-Jones, Dick and Doris Myers and Bill and … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Election Campaign, ALEC, Energy, Environment, Progressive Community, Public Health, Sustainability
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No Iowa Dairy for President Clinton
President Bill Clinton was on the Daily Show recently promoting his new book, Back to Work. He looks frail, but engaged in life. I got into an argument with a Hillary Clinton supporter during the run up to the 2008 … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Frances Thicke, Organic Foods & Farming, Public Health
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