Professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton say our current health system takes from the poor and working class to generate […]
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Apr 2020
Jessie Hellmann writes in The Hill that a robust network of “contact tracers” is needed to control the spread of […]
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Apr 2020
Steve Coll writes in the New Yorker how President Woodrow Wilson contracted the “Spanish Flu” more than 100 years ago, […]
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Apr 2020
Isaac Chotiner writes in the New Yorker that after a month of social-distancing measures in the U.S., researchers know more […]
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Apr 2020
Executive Editor Tina Reed of FierceHealthcare writes that the U.S. will begin following a phased-in approach to begin reopening the […]
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Apr 2020
Listen to former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown explain why it is crucial we take a global view of fighting […]
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Apr 2020
Numerous contenders—from a controversial malaria medication to treatments that regulate the immune system—are now in clinical trials Tanya Lewis of […]
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Apr 2020
Matthew Herper writes in STAT that a test for the novel coronavirus that was unveiled by President Trump on the White House […]
Apr 2020
Casey Ross writes in STAT that the pitch from technology companies goes something like this: We can tap phone data […]
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Apr 2020
In New York, the curve has started to flatten—but the I.C.U.s are still full, and patients are still dying The […]
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