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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Blowing The Whistle On Trump Team’s COVID Policies


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Those working inside the Trump administration are getting so frustrated with the response to the COVID-19 pandemic that they are going public. Named and unnamed whistleblowers — including one of the government’s top vaccine experts who was ousted from his job ―are out with stories of political favoritism, workers with no government experience overruling those who have done their jobs for decades, and an underlying disdain for science.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is hearing cases by telephone, including one this week that would give employers the broad ability to decline to offer no-cost birth control to women, a benefit guaranteed under the Affordable Care Act.

This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Rachana Pradhan of Kaiser Health News.

Among the takeaways from this week’s podcast:

Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read too:

Julie Rovner: Kaiser Health News’ “UVA Lawsuits,” by Jay Hancock and Elizabeth Lucas

Anna Edney: Reuters’ “Bayer’s Chloroquine Donation to U.S. Raises Concern About FDA Standards in Pandemic,” by Katherine Eban

Alice Miranda Ollstein: The Arizona Republic’s “State Health Department Tells University COVID-19 Modeling Team to Stop Work, Limits Data Access,” by Rachel Leingang

Rachana Pradhan: ProPublica’s “How Profit and Incompetence Delayed N95 Masks While People Died at the VA,” by J. David McSwane


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