CAN MOSQUITOES SPREAD THE CORONAVIRUS?

CAN MOSQUITOES SPREAD THE CORONAVIRUS?

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CAN MOSQUITOES SPREAD THE CORONAVIRUS?

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No. While mosquitoes can spread some diseases, most notably malaria, experts say COVID-19 is not among them.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has no data to suggest the coronavirus is spread by either mosquitoes or ticks. COVID-19 is mainly spread from person to person through droplets people spray when they talk, cough or sneeze. And the World Health Organization says a mosquito bite won’t give you the virus.

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But why not, if mosquitoes can transmit other diseases? A recent study offers an explanation. Researchers say the virus would have to infect the mosquito and multiply inside of it in order for the mosquito to pass it on to people. That failed to happen when researchers injected three species of mosquitoes with the virus.

WHILE THE US IS REELING FROM COVID-19, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS TRYING TO TAKE AWAY HEALTH CARE

Nicole Huberfeld, Professor of Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights and Professor of Law, Boston University and Paul Shafer, Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy, and Management, Boston University

The Conversation logoWhile the US is reeling from COVID-19, the Trump administration is trying to take away health care

The death toll from COVID-19 keeps rising, creating grief, fear, loss and confusion.

a man and a woman holding a cake: People affected by the downturn in the economy caused by coronavirus at a food bank in Central Florida in April, 2020. © Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto/Getty Images People affected by the downturn in the economy caused by coronavirus at a food bank in Central Florida in April, 2020.

Unfortunately for us all, the pain only begins there. Other important health policy news that would ordinarily make headlines is buried under the crushing weight of the coronavirus. Many have not had time to notice or understand the Trump administration’s efforts to wreck health care coverage.

We are both professors at Boston University School of Public Health who study health insurance, one using economics and statistics and the other focusing on law and policy. We have researched the big picture of COVID-19’s impact on the safety net and the details of how our federalist system, with states having considerable control over policy, has made a coordinated response to the pandemic more difficult. Here, we highlight two major actions by the Trump administration that should be receiving more attention – attempting to cap federal Medicaid funding, and arguing to the Supreme Court that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down.

a group of people on a bed: COVID-19 patients arrive to the Wakefield Campus of the Montefiore Medical Center on April 06, 2020 in the Bronx borough of New York City.© John Moore/Getty Images COVID-19 patients arrive to the Wakefield Campus of the Montefiore Medical Center on April 06, 2020 in the Bronx borough of New York City.

Limits on Medicaid funding

Complicated language and political posturing make it hard to understand health care in the best of times. This is particularly true for proposals to change the funding for Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income Americans that also covers many disabled and elderly people.

Medicaid has historically been funded like this: States