Kavita Patel
Physician/Health Policy Researcher/Contributor @msnbc @nbc /views my own
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1 week ago |
newrepublic.com | Benjamin Miller |Norman Ornstein |Kavita Patel
May is Mental Health Awareness Month—a time when the nation is supposed to recommit to the mental health and well-being of millions struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, and addiction. But instead of renewed support, the American people are getting a very different kind of message from the Trump administration: one of disinvestment, dismantling, and disregard. More than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness—and over half receive no treatment. That’s not just a failure.
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2 months ago |
msnbc.com | Kavita Patel
In a Fox News interview last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that poor nutrition played a role in making an unvaccinated school-age child in West Texas’ Mennonite community the first person to die in the U.S. of measles in 10 years.
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2 months ago |
flipboard.com | Kavita Patel
1 hour agoRFK Jr. touts beef tallow french fries at Steak 'n ShakeHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised Steak ‘n Shake for cooking its french fries in beef tallow while he was being interviewed at the fast food chain on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program. Chris Hayes points out RFK Jr.'s choice to focus on french fries while the deadly measles outbreak spreads through the country.
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2 months ago |
msnbc.com | Kavita Patel
As we commemorate the fifth anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the novel coronavirus a pandemic, this is the first of a six-part MSNBC Daily series that reflects on the million American lives lost, the political polarization and the declining trust in public health measures that followed the virus’ spread and assesses the country’s preparedness for the next pandemic.
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Kavita Patel
As we commemorate the fifth anniversary of theWorld Health Organization declaring the novel coronavirus a pandemic, this is the first of a six-part MSNBC Daily series that reflects on the million American lives lost, the political polarization and the declining trust in public health measures that followed the virus’ spread and assesses the country’s preparedness for the next pandemic.
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