The Daily Yonder In the Rural Race to Distribute Covid Vaccines, a Piecemeal Approach From outreach to remote areas to assistance from the National Guard, rural providers are trying to reach isolated seniors everywhere. But staffing, low vaccine allocations and transportation barriers have gotten in the way.
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Connecticut National Guard members wait to check-in vehicles for Connecticut s largest Covid-19 Vaccination Drive-Through Clinic in East Hartford, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
For the first time in a long time last summer, the Madison County fairgrounds were empty. As with many other events across the state, the pandemic sidelined this annual celebration of all things agriculture.
Juanita Wilson / Buncombe County Special Collections, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, NC
Six months ago, as part of a reckoning on racial injustice, the City of Asheville and Buncombe County both passed resolutions to consider reparations to the Black community as a way to begin making amends for slavery and generations of systemic discrimination.
The votes were hailed as “historic” by The Asheville Citizen Times, and ABC News asked, “Is Asheville a national model?”
Since then, local officials concede, little has been done. Some in the Black community see zero progress.
“From my understanding, they’ve done nothing,” said Rob Thomas, community liaison for the Racial Justice Coalition.
1. Health provisions in Cox’s budget
Governor Spencer Cox released his $21.7 billion FY 2022 budget proposal last week, calling for “opportunity for all” and focusing largely on education and the COVID-19 response. The budget allocates $250 million to COVID-19 response efforts, with $100 million for public health, $100 million toward short-term economic response, and $50 million toward critical education needs.
Other health-related investments include: $1.2 billion for Medicaid & other social services, $125 million for rural infrastructure such as broadband, $3.3 million to recruit and retain frontline social service and state hospital workers, and $2.3 million to strengthen the state’s behavioral health system. Appropriations subcommittees began their work this week to hash through the state’s spending plan.
5 Things Maryland: Medical liability, Veto override, Staffing shortages DJ Wilson | Jan 21, 2021
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We are hosting our Convening Panel next month ahead of our 2021 Maryland State of Reform Health Policy Conference on May 13th. Like our Convening Panel meeting, our conference will be virtual this year.
The job of the Convening Panel is to help identify the right topics, sessions and speakers for the conference. So, if you have ideas for sessions or speakers at this year’s event, we’d love to get your input. We crowdsource our speakers and sessions so that we have as many credible voices in the mix as is possible for a one day event.
5 Things Alaska: Health legislation, State budget, DHSS split DJ Wilson | Jan 20, 2021
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We are now on the other side of the 45th peaceful transfer of power since our Constitution was ratified in 1789. It is one of the most uncommon things in the great swath of human history, having hardly been done without swords or battles of some sort. Here, in America, we do this by election.
If your candidate won, congratulations. If your candidate didn’t win, that is the great luxury of living in a republican democracy. You know you’ll get another chance. Now, Alaska and America move towards a period of lawmaking and governance. Municipal elections are coming up on April 6th, which are consequential. But, it’s also nice to know we won’t likely have quite the animus of the 2020 elections until at least the mid-terms roll around in 2022.