This Devastating Covid-19 Outbreak In Brazil Is A Warning To The Rest Of The World
In March 2020, the Brazilian city of Manaus, the largest urban area in the Amazon, identified its first case of Covid-19. Prevalence of the disease went on to peak in early May, bringing untold devastation to local hospitals, economies, and community life. …
Biden’s Covid-19 Plan Is A Welcome Relief — But It Needs To Go Further
With great relief, we welcome President Biden’s inauguration and his administration’s robust and rational Covid-19 recovery and economic stimulus plan. The $1.9 trillion plan includes positive steps that public health experts have been calling for since the beginning of the pandemic. While …
Why America Should Look To China To Contain Covid-19
Since the earliest days of the Covid-19 pandemic, American news media has been rife with stories about how China handled – or according to many of the reports, mishandled – the initial outbreak. The most recent is a story in the New York …
Why Covid-19 Is Overwhelming California
At this pivotal juncture in our nation’s history, California has become a microcosm of broader developments taking shape across the US. The country’s most populous state is also its most diverse, home to a wide range of cultures, ethnicities, and economies. To the …
The Trouble With Herd Immunity And Covid-19 Vaccines
Now that an independent advisory panel has voted in favor of approving Pfizer’s two-dose Covid-19 vaccine, it likely won’t be long before the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clears it for emergency use. Within 24 hours of their decision, millions of …
New Study Shows Deep Impact Of Climate Change On Human Health
Our visual narratives of climate change have, historically, been replete with spectacular images of fire and flood. But the blood orange skies that loomed over San Francisco in early September—precipitated by a freak lightning storm that set regions surrounding the Bay Area ablaze—were what captured the …
Modified CDC Guidelines Grant Covid-19 Patients Discretion To Leave Quarantine Early
In recent days, the CDC modified its quarantine guidelines such that infected individuals do not necessarily need to follow them. They still officially recommend fourteen days for Covid-19 isolation before returning to society, but quarantines may be reduced to only seven or ten days …
Americans Need to Establish What Went Wrong
The coronavirus pandemic is a far greater economic and societal threat than anything the United States has faced in recent memory. The 9/11 attacks took nearly 3,000 lives. COVID-19 has taken a quarter million. The nation’s responses to these two threats—one a palpable and …
Congress and the states must fix Trump’s COVID-19 mistakes
We face a crossroads today, with the pandemic growing significantly worse but hope for an end to the suffering – through a vaccine or the forceful action of a new president –higher than ever. But the reality is that the President-elect Biden will be …
The Biden Team Must Prioritize Cheap Rapid Test Production And Distribution
All of us hope that a Covid-19 vaccine will bring an end to our current suffering. But even in the best-case scenario, by the time a vaccine is widely available, hundreds of thousands more lives will be lost. We must use the …