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Andrew Cuomo’s Covid-19 nursing home fiasco shows the ethical perils of pandemic policymaking

26.02.2021

WASHINGTON — The humbling of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on pandemic policy has been spectacular and swift. Within a matter of days, one of America’s most trusted voices in …

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Coronavirus / Health

‘We need to get in the room’: Hospital chaplains struggle to balance Covid safety with patients’ spiritual needs

25.02.2021

Infection fears have never slowed down Rev. Moneka Thompson. For more than 10 years, she’s visited patients hospitalized at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with tuberculosis, chickenpox, and any …

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Health Tech

How Covid-19 could usher in a new role for continuous glucose monitoring in hospitals

24.02.2021

In early May, a wing of Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center was eerily empty. The space had been cleared of patients as the pandemic raged. But it wasn’t going …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Lung transplants after Covid-19 raise difficult issues

23.02.2021

When the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in the spring, I wrote that some people with severe Covid-19-related lung injury would never recover their lung …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: The pandemic slingshot: propelling from national crisis to a resilient health care system

22.02.2021

A year into the Covid-19 pandemic and the U.S. is still battling this crisis. As the country enters its second and third waves of cases, we know it won’t be …

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Health

FDA issues alert on ‘limitations’ of pulse oximeters, without explicit mention of racial bias

19.02.2021

Two months after Democratic lawmakers expressed concern about potential racial disparities in pulse oximeter readings — calling the issue a matter of “life or death” — the Food and Drug Administration …

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Health / Health Tech

‘These numbers are incredibly important’: Doctors and lawmakers call on FDA to address racial disparities in pulse oximeters

10.02.2021

A long-documented, under-the-radar disparity is garnering new attention as the Covid-19 pandemic stretches into another year: Some pulse oximeters, which measure oxygen levels and are critical to making decisions about …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion / Health

Opinion: A buddy system can help doctors and nurses weather the Covid-19 maelstrom

05.02.2021

Remember outings in elementary school or at camp? You were probably paired with another kid about your age and size whose hand you held. The buddy system made losing someone …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Truth and transparency after Covid-19: Mending the relationship between hospitals and the communities they serve

04.02.2021

In April 2020, Víctor Santamaría was in an intensive care unit at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City with a breathing tube in his throat. His lungs, kidneys, …

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