A Warning From Sweden
Sweden now has among the highest per capita death rates from Covid-19 in the world. Why? The answer is simple. Sweden was lax in its implementation of protective measures in the face of the outbreak, refusing to implement broad stay at home …
The Guardian Features ACCESS Health Chair and President on Preparing for the Second Covid-19 Wave
A group of nine leading scientists who advised President Barack Obama has warned that the US has just three months to rebuild its stockpile of emergency medical equipment if it wants to be prepared for a second wave of coronavirus in the fall. In …
What AIDS Taught Us About Fighting Pandemics
Thirty-five years ago, in the midst of the new and still somewhat unknown AIDS epidemic, I warned in testimony to the US Congress that we were facing another deadly episode in the long battle between humankind and microbes. If asked to testify …
The Private Sector Response to COVID-19 in India
This is the second in a series of blog posts by ACCESS Health India Country Director Dr. Krishna Reddy. Dr. Reddy is a board certified cardiologist with a long and distinguished career, marked by his leadership of the CARE Hospital Group which …
An Urgent Need To Reopen Medical Care For All
A shorter version of this article was originally published in The Hill. Each day in America and in most countries around the world brings with it a new story of crowded hospitals packed with panicked patients and exhausted health workers. But there is …
An Urgent Need to Reopen Medical Care for All
Each day a new story of crowded hospital corridors and exhausted healthcare workers appears in our newspapers. But another story, equally tragic, is unfolding in the privacy of our homes. Countless Americans with chronic conditions and other serious illnesses languish in isolation …
A Letter To Congress: Four Principles For A Safe Economic Reopening
On Monday, a bipartisan group of public health leaders laid out four principles for the safe reopening of the US economy in a letter to Congress. In it, they argued that the key to reopening our economy would be to test, trace …
Reopening America will require this key thing that’s been ignored
Returning to work and school after the coronavirus is urgent and necessary. Virtually all public health officials agree on the three capabilities necessary to reopen society: Availability of tests to identify those actively infected and capable of infecting others. Exhaustive contract tracing …
This Is How You Can Return To Work Safely
Public health experts agree on the need for widespread testing to be in place before businesses can reopen and the economy restarts. But not every government official is on board. In May, there is a real risk that Americans will be asked …
Why COVID? Nature’s Code Cracking Machine Intelligence
COVID-19 is a pandemic that never had to happen. To prevent another—or one even worse—we have to internalize a simple lesson about life on earth that we tend to forget. Nature, for all its beauty and wonder, is out to get us. …