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March 27, 2020

The Impact of COVID-19 on Unemployment and Health

By Brieanne Lyda-McDonald

Over the course of the past two weeks, daily life has become very different for most people. With school closures and recent “stay-at-home” orders across the state, every North Carolinian…

March 25, 2020

COVID-19 and the Health Insurance Coverage Gap

By Michelle Ries

Written by Michelle Ries   Many NCIOM task forces and stakeholder convenings, most recently the Healthy NC 2030 Task Force, the Task Force on Serious Illness Care, and the Task…

March 23, 2020

COVID-19 and the Digital Divide

By Emily Hooks

Written by Emily Hooks   As COVID-19 cases increase throughout our state and nation, social distancing guidelines have caused Americans to restructure most of our daily routines. To adhere to…

March 13, 2020

What the 2007 NCIOM Pandemic Flu Task Force recommendations can tell us about the ethics of handling COVID-19

By Michelle Ries

By Brieanne Lyda-McDonald   As concerns over state and local responses to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic increase, the North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NCIOM) is looking back to a report…