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Press releases
Kaiser Permanente creates COVID-19 Social Health Playbook
October 13, 2020
Health care system provides model for screening patients for access to food, housing, and other essential factors for health.
Covid 19: Return to Sports Playbook
October 8, 2020
Kaiser Permanente today announced a multidisciplinary team of sports medicine physicians, infectious disease, and other specialists has developed and released comprehensive guidance for youth, high school, and collegiate athletes to return to sports safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Newsmakers
Bechara Choucair, MD, and Stephen Parodi, MD discuss public health impacts of COVID-19
November 23, 2020
COVID-19 is the latest in a series of developments that have had a profound impact on public health, according to Kaiser Permanente physician leaders.
Lisa A. Jackson, MD, offers perspective on efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine in TIME story
November 18, 2020
The senior investigator with the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute discusses promising developments from clinical trials on a COVID-19 vaccine under development by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health.