These Recharge Rooms Are Helping Health Care Workers Cope
Mariam Zakhary, an assistant professor in Mount Sinai Hospital’s department of rehabilitation medicine, remembers what 7 pm sounded like in…
If Covid-19 Did Start With a Lab Leak, Would We Ever Know?
“We find ourselves 10 months into one of the most catastrophic global health events of our lifetime,” wrote Stanford University…
The US Government Needs to Invest in Digital Design
Imagine if, when the president addressed the nation in those early, frightening days of March 2020, he had announced the…
How Many Microcovids Would You Spend on a Burrito?
Relentless tabulators often come off as zealous, maybe a little paranoid, and certainly no fun. Luckily, Olsson shares a house…
There Should Be a Nobel Prize for Vaccine Logistics
I spent a lot of time last year thinking about how things went wrong. You can understand why. For a…
Here’s a Plan to Stop the Coronavirus From Mutating
Another group, writing in The New England Journal of Medicine earlier this month, detailed the trajectory of the virus in…
The Race for a Covid Vaccine Was More About Luck Than Tech
It’s been a constant theme in coverage of the new Covid vaccines: A years-long process of research and development has…
The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine
A miracle cure must have sounded pretty good. On March 19, the president conducted a press conference, and it was…
The Vulnerable Can Wait. Vaccinate the Covid Super-Spreaders First
One of the first people to address the committee was Santa Claus. Or, more precisely, it was Ric Erwin, chairman…
UK coronavirus epidemic is doubling every seven days warn scientists
By Adam Vaughan Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty speaking at the televised briefingPippa Fowles / No 10 Downing Street The…