Insurers in WA must cover transgender health care under new bill
At 19, Venus Aoki left Mexico because of the discrimination she experienced there as a transgender woman. She came to the United States seeking medical care to aid her transition — a process that would require additional procedures and therapy. Yet, even since arriving in Washington state five years ago, Aoki, now 24, has still been unable to access some of the gender-affirming treatments prescribed by her doctor. Continue reading at Crosscut. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
These tribes have not received federal assistance during the pandemic. Here’s why.
The Indian Health Service has been lauded for the success of its vaccine rollout. But there’s one group of tribes that received no vaccines, no testing supplies, and none of the federal relief money that’s gone to Indian Country during the pandemic. Most tribes received testing supplies that Indian Health Service sent to their clinics. And as sovereign nations, they got their own vaccine allocations that they could prioritize as they chose. Continue reading at KUOW. (Ellis O’Neill/KUOW)
New IHME study says COVID-19 has caused over 905,000 deaths in U.S., 6.9 million deaths globally
A new study concludes that COVID-19 has caused more than 905,000 deaths in America and more than double the number of global deaths that have been reported. The updated analysis by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine found that COVID-19 deaths are significantly underreported in almost every country. Continue reading at Q13.
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Insurers in WA must cover transgender health care under new bill (Liias)
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