BONUS - The Obstacles Slowing Down America’s “Test-to-Treat” Program for COVID-19
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English - April 26, 2022 11:00 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 559 ratingsNews Health & Fitness Medicine covid covid19 education globalhealth medicine coronavirus health novelcoronavirus publichealth science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The federal “test-to-treat” program was designed to reduce hospitalizations and deaths by getting antivirals to people who test positive for COVID-19 as quickly as possible. Hannah Recht, a reporter at Kaiser Health News who has written about the topic, talks to Stephanie Desmon about how confusing websites, lack of up-to-date information and costs have kept many of the neediest from receiving prompt care.