Opinion: Trump’s cuts to WHO funding: irresponsible, irrational, and simply wrong
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us that an infectious disease outbreak in one corner of…
Category: First Opinion
Opinion: Covid-19 will pass. Will we be able to say the same about the racism it has illuminated?
The Covid-19 pandemic is teaching me that the world can change almost overnight when it…
Opinion: When the Covid-19 pandemic is over, health care must not return to business as usual
I’m a doctor who treats patients with Covid-19 in the emergency department and the intensive…
Opinion: Our hospital’s community management strategy for Covid-19 works. Yours can, too
The Covid-19 pandemic is overwhelming hospital and emergency response systems in the U.S., much as…
Opinion: Home testing for Covid-19 will provide the combination to unlock the U.S.
As the government struggles to help Americans move from lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders to a…
Opinion: Covid-19 and suicide: an uncertain connection
I live and work in Colorado, a beautiful state that can look to an outsider…
Opinion: The view from two residents inside an ICU’s pandemic crew: Covid brain, relentless sorrow, and kindness in calamity
“Welcome to the Covid crew,” read the email we received in mid-March. With that quick…
Opinion: Mobile integrated health programs with paramedics should be on the front line of the Covid-19 fight
Long before the first case of a mystery respiratory disease was identified in China and…
Opinion: If pharma helps quench the Covid-19 pandemic, what will it want in return?
Make no mistake: The only long-term solution to the Covid-19 pandemic is a safe and…
Opinion: You are waiting for the surge
The death toll from the march of Covid-19 through New York City soars past 10,000….
Opinion: Managing a pharma company during three crises: lessons learned for Covid-19
When I started working in the biopharma industry 20 or so years ago, I didn’t…
Opinion: Doctors discover telehealth’s silver lining in the Covid-19 crisis
Before the Covid-19 crisis, I — like most physicians — thought that in person, face-to-face…
Opinion: Farmers markets provide healthy food and support local economies. Keep them open during Covid-19 lockdowns
The Farmers Market in Berkeley, California, where I’ve shopped for the last 20 years, recently…
Opinion: Medical students called to the Covid-19 fight need support, protection
As the escalating Covid-19 pandemic puts increasing pressure on health systems, a shortage of medical…
Opinion: I was a ‘perfect setup’ to be fooled by Covid-19
“Hi, this is Pooja,” I answered my phone promptly. I had been waiting all day…
Opinion: Without training, N95 masks may not protect workers on the Covid-19 frontlines
A key strategy for protecting health care workers on the frontlines of fighting the highly…
Opinion: De-identified data exception in HIPAA poses a litigation risk
As money pours into health care startups built around artificial intelligence — more than 350 deals…
Opinion: Poor countries have made extraordinary progress against epidemic disease. We need to learn from them
About two months ago, when Covid-19 was still a somewhat distant problem in the United…
Opinion: Health care workers speaking truth on social media: amplify and protect their voices
“I think a lot of doctors now are feeling that the worry and the panic…
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Opinion: Mobilize the military to improve the response to Covid-19
As Covid-19 sweeps across the world, health care workers have become prime victims of it,…
Opinion: We’ll see more shortages of diagnostic tests if the FDA has its way
February was a frustrating month for my laboratory. We wanted to make tests to detect…
Opinion: Covid-19 opens unexpected rifts between health care workers
My pager wakes me at 4:00 a.m. It’s from Jill, a nurse on the medicine…
Opinion: Decarceration can reduce Covid-19 spread. The surgeon general should make that call
The jail on New York’s Rikers Island has a coronavirus infection rate that’s seven times…
Opinion: The coronavirus pandemic could transform our health care system — for the better
The Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly disrupted our everyday life. Cities and states are on lockdown…
Opinion: The tension between public health and patents in the era of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic, devastating as it is, is producing some triumphs of collaborative research and…
Opinion: To accelerate innovation, the CDC should ease limits on which labs can handle the coronavirus
Not long after SARS-CoV-2 was first identified in December 2019 as the cause of an…
Opinion: To restart the economy, employers need to lead the way on Covid-19 testing, vaccination
The precise, nationally coordinated campaigns of Covid-19 testing and contact isolation that helped South Korea…
Opinion: Lost opportunities from FDA, NIH inaction when sponsors fail to report clinical trial results
Americans are learning a thing or two about clinical trials as they watch the tense,…
Opinion: Professionalism drives health care workers to treat patients with Covid-19. We mustn’t jeopardize it
Why would a slight, 79-year-old physician-scientist stand up to a volatile, combative President Trump on…
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Opinion: Faces of health care workers on the frontlines of the Covid-19 fight
Health care workers are responding to the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic with professionalism and…
Opinion: I’m studying in the U.S., my family is in Italy. Every day is filled with mutual, gut-wrenching worry
WASHINGTON — I was supposed to be home in Italy for my spring break. Instead, as…
Opinion: With only ‘shaky data’ to go on, it’s tough to practice evidence-based medicine during the Covid-19 pandemic
Part of my job as an obstetrician is to keep up with the latest evidence…
Opinion: Covid-19 ‘immunity certificates’: practical and ethical conundrums
The media’s understandable focus is now on the number of people hospitalized with and dying…
Opinion: Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time for biomedical research investments to pay off
The Covid-19 pandemic is the monumental public health challenge the medical community has been fearing…
Opinion: Searching for an effective Covid-19 treatment: promise and peril
In response to the most serious global health threat in a century, the world’s biomedical…
Opinion: The challenges of giving birth in the time of Covid-19
There are about 300,000 births every month in the United States. That won’t change as…
Opinion: Learning about epidemic response from sub-Saharan African countries
In 2014, as one of us (A.T.D.) lay dying in an Ebola treatment center in…
Opinion: A proper tribute to health care workers on the Covid-19 front lines: forgive their student loan debt
Covid-19 has been likened to a stealth enemy attacking the fabric and well-being of our…
Opinion: I am far more than ‘just a nurse’
I inspect my patient from head to toe and then left to right across her…
Opinion: CDC: remember who you are
Public health wins are quiet — the child born healthy, the loved one still safe,…
Opinion: A doctor and a deli manager: on the front lines of the Covid-19 fight
In the morning, my fiance and I wake up, get dressed for work, blow each…
Opinion: Excluding med students and letting trainees opt out of Covid-19 care is bad for medicine
The devastating coronavirus pandemic is highlighting the dedication and courage of health care communities in…
Opinion: While social distancing, do your other patriotic duty: have The Conversation about serious illness care
At no time since World War II has there been a clarion call for the…
Opinion: Misinformation about an outbreak like Covid-19 is important public health data
One of us (L.H.-D.) heard the first official news of the coronavirus outbreak in China…
Opinion: Using social distancing to test if technology can solve the loneliness epidemic
As the coronavirus spreads exponentially across the United States, widespread social distancing is thought to…
Opinion: Predicting immunotherapy success: We’ve mastered the foothills but the summit lies ahead
The Nobel Prize-winning discovery of immune checkpoint inhibitors has changed how cancer is treated. These…
Opinion: The ‘certified recovered’ from Covid-19 could lead the economic recovery
Re-opening a nightclub in New York seems crazy at this point, as that’s just the…
Opinion: A deficit of more than 250,000 public health workers is no way to fight Covid-19
What happens when a nation systematically cuts or underfunds its public health workforce? We are…
Opinion: I’ve been cared for by dozens of clinicians in nearly 20 years. I’m in awe of their work on Covid-19
To health care workers on the front lines: thank you. As a rare disease patient…
Opinion: I got Covid-19 and got lucky. The emotional impact hurt more
I tested positive for Covid-19 not long ago. It wasn’t a worried-well test, or even…