Opinion: Crossing the threshold: violence against home visiting nurses
It’s a difficult time to be a nurse. It’s an even more difficult time to be a home visiting nurse. This large group of health care providers, who are largely …
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Opinion: States and hospitals: overhaul your vaccine plans with data before it’s too late
The first phase of the vaccine rollout, which is supposed to deliver shots to roughly 24 million health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities, has been stymied by …
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Opinion: Stop sidelining science. Bring back federal scientific advisory committees
In a move touted as “improving the utility of federal advisory committees,” President Trump signed Executive Order 13875 in June, requiring all federal agencies to reduce the number of their …
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Opinion: We lost to SARS-CoV-2 in 2020. We can defeat B-117 in 2021
We are barely a week into 2021 and already there are urgent warnings about a novel pandemic virus strain spreading surreptitiously and exponentially across the world. This seems like déjà …
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Opinion: Even during a pandemic, hospitals must make family visits and communication the standard of care
Since the start of the pandemic, nearly 340,000 Americans have died of Covid-19, many of them alone, isolated from those who love them by hospital policies cutting off family visits. …
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Opinion: Mother Nature is not ‘the ultimate bioterrorist’
Despite the menacing track record of emerging pathogens, “Mother Nature is the world’s worst bioterrorist,” a long-overused catchphrase of scientists and public health professionals, is in urgent need of retirement. …
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Opinion: Even in a virtual JPM week, we need to maintain the relationship ‘glue’ that keeps the biotech industry strong
Every January, the week of the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (JPM week) is a whirlwind — oftentimes in the literal sense, with players from across the life science industry …
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Opinion: Along with vaccine rollouts, the U.S. needs a National Hi-Fi Mask Initiative
Though the first Covid-19 vaccines are now being given to health care workers, other frontline workers, and the elderly in the United States, it will likely be months before enough …
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Opinion: Wastewater-based epidemiology: a 20-year journey may pay off for Covid-19
When I entered public service in 1991 as a research scientist with the Environmental Protection Agency, its attention was focused on the impact of pesticides and industrial chemicals on humans …
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