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For Prisoners, Pandemic Hits with Greater Force

The COVID-19 crisis inside jails and prisons has laid bare the public health emergency created by mass incarceration in this country. UCSF experts say the health care system has an important role to play in helping to attenuate these harms.

Brie Williams in the San Francisco County Jail

Axing the ACA Means Young Adults with Cancer Lose Coverage 

Researchers found that patients with a pediatric cancer who were protected under the ACA’s dependent coverage provision were more likely to remain on private insurance for longer durations compared to their older peers who turned 19 before the Act. 

stock images shows IV drip and pediatric patient in a hospital bed