National Autism Awareness Month begins in April
Published on April 15, 2021 in FEATURES by Features Staff
By Karolina Dombaxi, Staff Writer April is National Autism Awareness Month, dedicated to increasing awareness about autism spectrum disorder. According to Autism Speaks, in 2020 the CDC reported that one in 54 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with autism. Autism can be reliably diagnosed as early as the age of two, but most children are still being diagnosed after the age of four. The core symptoms of autism are social communication challenges and restricted, repetitive behaviors. Many children with autism also have sensory issues and can be over sensitized by touch, taste, light, pain and other stimuli.
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Over the past few months, Facebook has used third-party fact-checkers to decide which COVID-19 news stories and op-eds are false or misleading. Recently, one determined that a
Wall Street Journal opinion article by Marty Makary, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins professor and editor-in-chief at
In his op-ed, Makary argued that COVID-19 will be mostly gone by April. I want to be clear: I am not interested in litigating Makary s opinion, which is what an op-ed conveys. April 30 will be here soon, and we will find out. Instead, I am interested in thinking about how an $800-billion company decides when an op-ed by a professor can be stamped misleading.
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Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.
Why Haven Never Got Off Ground
Haven, the healthcare venture launched three years ago by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase, fell apart because one of its partners began its own independent health services arm that competed with the joint project,
Haven announced last week it is folding in February. After promising to streamline access to prescriptions and primary care, it never created a single consumer health product.
Amazon, meanwhile, separately launched several products and reached partnerships since Haven was born. The online retail giant already had some health initiatives in the works when Haven launched, but it didn t share its plans with Haven employees and added other services even as Haven was trying to implement its own.