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Even as governments around the world have responded to the Covid-19 crisis by making unprecedented commitments of billions of dollars toward vaccine and therapeutic development and trillions more for economic …
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Here is my working definition of a public health expert: someone who is constantly frustrated that people will not act on clear health advice in the interests of their own …
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As the U.S. heads toward a third peak in the pandemic, rural counties are among the areas most severely affected by Covid-19. While their absolute numbers of cases are still …
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Monday marked the first announcement of preliminary results of Phase 3 trials of Covid-19 vaccines, and we expect many more to follow. These results are long awaited: Mass vaccination will …
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Before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, leading organizations in clinical research had been gradually discovering, experimenting with, and implementing remote technology. The pandemic has catapulted their transformation agendas forward. …
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On Monday, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their experimental Covid-19 vaccine candidate prevented more than 90% of infections in healthy volunteers. Based on these encouraging data — potentially among the …
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Winter is coming. With the end of Covid-19 nowhere in sight, the U.S. must brace for the annual surge of influenza, bronchitis, sinusitis, bronchiolitis, and other acute respiratory illnesses. Last …
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“You’re a unicorn,” the investor said. The first time she called me that, I responded with a nervous laugh and downplayed her comment. But that didn’t stop her. She went …
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President-elect Joe Biden faces many grave challenges. The one we believe to be paramount is that the lack of coherent, national leadership to date in the face of the Covid-19 …
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