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Cracks in COVID-19 treatment reveal need to bolster primary care

  • Written by Tuba Agartan, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Providence College
Throughout the U.S., hospitals are short on supplies. At UNLV Medicine (University of Nevada at Las Vegas), the staff is running out of COVID-19 test kits. Getty Images / Ethan Miller

Every day the COVID-19 crisis reveals just how unprepared the U.S. health care system was.

But it’s not only the shortage of masks, tests and ventilators, nor...

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