Digital event: Confronting a Pandemic — Part 3
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Category: coronavirus
Opinion: The growing global appetite for meat increases the risk of future ‘spillover’ pandemics. We can do something about it
I was a pandemic specialist for 15 years, leading projects under the emerging pandemic threats…
Opinion: Calling all health care workers ‘heroes’ harms all of us
Here’s an unjust fact: Some of the frontline health care workers we’ve been celebrating with…
‘It’s something I have never seen’: How the Covid-19 virus hijacks cells
A deep dive into how the new coronavirus infects cells has found that it orchestrates…
Opinion: Life with lupus: Trump’s hydroxychloroquine hype puts my treatment — and himself — at risk
President Trump’s revelation this week that he’s taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off Covid-19 sent shivers…
Opinion: Lessons from the military on how to balance caring for patients against the risk of personal harm
“If not me, then who?” That was the answer Marine Corps First Lieutenant Travis Manion…
Federal legislation to protect health data has made little progress. Will that change in the Covid-19 era?
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, health data privacy wasn’t exactly a hot topic on Capitol Hill….
Vaccine experts say Moderna didn’t produce data critical to assessing Covid-19 vaccine
Heavy hearts soared Monday with news that Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate — the frontrunner in the…
CEO tapped by Trump to make generic drugs during pandemic has a dicey track record
As the chief executive of Phylo, the new company awarded $354 million by the federal government…
FDA, partnering with New York health tech firm, seeks to collect ‘real-world’ data on Covid-19
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it will launch a new research project…
Opinion: Covid-19 has exposed the limits of the pharmaceutical market model
That so much hope is being pinned on remdesivir, the drug Gilead is testing for…
Opinion: Ventilators can save people with serious Covid-19. The people behind them are even more important
In mid-March, the day before I flew back to New York City to return to…
As Covid-19 lockdowns are lifted, uncertainty at nursing homes only deepens
It was late April when a Covid-19 outbreak was reported at the Seven Hills Health…
9 ways Covid-19 may forever upend the U.S. health care industry
WASHINGTON — In the U.S. alone, Covid-19 has claimed nearly 100,000 lives and 30 million…
Gilead ups its donation of the Covid-19 drug remdesivir for U.S. hospitals
Gilead Sciences, the drug company behind the experimental Covid-19 therapy remdesivir, has upped the number…
In combative remarks, Azar tells WHO that its Covid-19 response ‘cost many lives’
WASHINGTON — Health secretary Alex Azar on Monday publicly blasted the World Health Organization, telling…
EMA urged to release full clinical trial data upon authorizing Covid-19 treatments
Amid a worldwide clamor for Covid-19 medicines and vaccines, the European Medicines Agency is being…
Early data show Moderna Covid-19 vaccine generates immune response
A candidate vaccine for Covid-19 developed by the drug maker Moderna appears to generate an…
Life as a Covid-19 contact tracer: sleuthing, stress, and veering off-script
All Maddie Bender knew when she called the New Haven, Conn., family was that a…
Utah went all-in on an unproven Covid-19 treatment, then scrambled to course-correct
Even before President Trump started plugging chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as Covid-19 treatments, enthusiasm for the…
Opinion: A pandemic plan was in place. Trump abandoned it — and science — in the face of Covid-19
President Obama was bothered. It was the summer of 2009 and he was in a…
WHO embraces plan for Covid-19 intellectual property pool
In response to the global race to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization…
The Trump administration outlines audacious plan to deliver ‘hundreds of millions’ of Covid-19 vaccine doses by end of 2020
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday rolled out a hyper-ambitious plan to develop and…
FDA says Abbott’s 5-minute Covid-19 test may miss infected patients
The Food and Drug Administration said late Thursday that the Abbott ID Now rapid test…
Opinion: Contact tracing must balance privacy and public health
Contact tracing armies in California and New Jersey. Rapid-response contact tracing in Washington. Track and…
Opinion: Life with an autistic child can be difficult. During a pandemic it can be grueling
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted daily life for most people around the world. It has…
Opinion: Testing everyone for Covid-19 doesn’t make sense. We need to test smarter, not harder
In response to calls for Covid-19 testing of the entire U.S. population, several large universities,…
Under an ‘America First’ president, will the U.S. corner the market on Covid-19 vaccine?
The United States is sprinting headlong toward the development and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines. But…
Less than a movie ticket or ‘impossible to overpay’? Experts name their price for remdesivir
Two weeks ago, the world learned that remdesivir, a treatment from Gilead Sciences, has a…
Rick Bright is facing attacks from Republicans across Washington, but his opponents can’t seem to land a punch
WASHINGTON — It may have been Rick Bright’s best day in two months. The ousted…
Listen: Covid-19 in the White House, an audacious approach to Parkinson’s, and the public health lessons from porn
What can the adult film industry teach us about fighting coronavirus? Does the FDA approve…
Trump administration fires back at ousted vaccine expert as he testifies on his role in U.S. coronavirus response
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration accused a federal whistleblower Thursday of “one-sided arguments and misinformation”…
Opinion: Is Anthony Fauci today’s Galileo Galilei, the champion of science?
Defending science and scientific integrity can be a frustrating and lonely battle. As I watch…
Opinion: Covid-19, a ‘supernova in human history,’ will need multiple perspectives to understand and manage
Covid-19 is a tragic infection that is killing hundreds of thousands of people around the…
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Opinion: Gilead should ditch remdesivir and focus on its simpler and safer ancestor
In the midst of a pandemic like Covid-19, for which there are no FDA-approved drug…
Cats can catch Covid-19 from one another, study finds. The question is: Can we?
With sporadic reports in recent weeks of cats infected with the coronavirus that causes Covid-19,…
Covid-19 experts lament dismissal of early warnings and disease’s impact on communities of color
From testing failures to downplayed virus risks to the disproportionate effect on communities of color,…
World Health Assembly draft resolution boosts access to Covid-19 medicines
World Health Assembly negotiators have agreed on a draft resolution that ensures countries can navigate…
Opinion: We’re psychiatry residents. We will take good care of you if you get Covid-19
As the number of Americans with Covid-19 rapidly rises, doctors are among them, having no…
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Opinion: Palliative care needs tweaking in the coronavirus era
“This is my fault. I’m the one who got her sick,” my patient’s son tells…
Fueled by the Covid-19 pandemic, remote heart monitoring could become tech’s next big target
It was a shift that began long before the pandemic: Tech companies, health providers, and…
Gilead signs licenses for generic companies to make and sell remdesivir in 127 countries
Seeking to blunt concerns about access to its remdesivir treatment for Covid-19, Gilead Sciences (GILD)…
6 takeaways from the Senate’s surreal virtual hearing on the U.S. coronavirus response
WASHINGTON — The Senate’s first major hearing on the Covid-19 pandemic began with the sounds…
Digital event: Confronting a Pandemic — Part 2
Editor’s note: The livestream will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET. The need to…
Opinion: Waiting for my daughter Blueberry in the Year Zero of Covid-19
Medicine is typically an intimate interaction with its one-on-one conversations and physical exams behind closed…
Opinion: To put Covid-19 behind us, all Americans should be vaccinated against it
My work as an emergency medicine physician has taken me to urban and rural areas…
With little data, doctors struggle to decide which Covid-19 patients should get remdesivir
Now that the federal government has begun distributing the experimental Covid-19 drug remdesivir, hospitals are…
STAT Plus: With hopes running high for Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine, the stock’s value requires an almost mythical leap of faith
Moderna is moving at unprecedented speed to develop a vaccine to prevent infection from the…
Covid-19 has streamlined addiction medicine. Will the changes stick?
Nicole Godinez’s monthly visit to an addiction clinic typically takes several hours: To start, there’s…
Opinion: A global pathogen shield: the health security step to ‘never again’
In the name of strategic defense, the world’s nations have amassed enough nuclear weapons to…