It’s been more than a century since the last pandemic struck our nation. Through those 100 years, there have been outbreaks that have shaken and surprised our healthcare system, like AIDS, SARS and Ebola. But not since the influenza epidemic of 1918 have our hospitals been as overwhelmed and short-supplied as those in COVID-19 hotspots… Read More »
Britons are ‘more likely to die of cancer than they were 15 years ago’ because of coronavirus – as 27-year-old mother who beat breast cancer twice dies of the disease after doctors wrongly blamed her cough on Covid-19 Experts modelled what effect disruption of cancer services will have by 2025 Around 3,500 patients with four… Read More »
“We need to take ownership of this and implement a federal plan by which we bring every state to containment by October,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, a professor and Dean of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, adding that some states have been able to do that already. “But other parts of the… Read More »
One of the effects of the COVID-19 public health emergency is that it has added urgency and speed to technology transformations that were already occurring, such as cloud migration and deployments of artificial intelligence and machine learning. At few places is that shift more pronounced than at Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic, which six months before the… Read More »
A worker wearing a mask and face shield speaks with visitors outside the High Line park as New York … [+] City moves into Phase 3 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to curb the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic on July 16, 2020. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images) Getty Images Is your 2020 vision to wear some… Read More »