Two Weeks And Ten Million Covid Tests In Wuhan
Over the last two weeks of May, all residents over the age of 5 in Wuhan, China were tested for the presence of active SARS-CoV-2 virus replication. The tests identified 300 people with active infection. None of those tested show any signs …
Rapid, Accessible, Affordable, Ubiquitous Tests For SARS-CoV-2 Are On The Way
We need rapid, accessible, affordable and ubiquitous tests to detect those who are actively infected and can infect others. The good news is that they are coming soon. SARS-CoV-2 genome tests The first type of test to detect active infection measures the …
Daily Beast Features ACCESS Health Chair and President on Antibody Tests
New York City remains under seemingly interminable pandemic lockdown. But as researchers around the globe chase the promise of antibody tests—which have faced criticism for their mixed accuracy and dubious reputation as harbingers of COVID-19-immunity—a new wave of such testing in America’s …
Responsible Reopening: A Lesson From NYU Shanghai
This news clip is a glimpse of what reopening looks like for a small university in a country and city that has met the requirements for reopening, according to the Centers for Disease Control guidelines and US public health officials: The number …
The Right Understanding of Covid-19 Paves Way for the Right Response
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 …
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 …
The Hill Features ACCESS Health Chair and President on Spike of Covid-19 Cases in Arizona
Arizona experienced its worst day of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, reporting 310 new infections which pushed the state’s total confirmed case count to 5,769. Additionally, 66 Arizonans have died from the disease in the past three days, the most the state …
Arizona Republic on Testing with William A. Haseltine
With Arizona and other states considering reopening their economies on May 1, health experts said the state isn’t yet doing enough COVID-19 testing or collecting good enough data to responsibly lift stay-at-home orders. Arizona has done 51,000 tests through Saturday, a fraction of the COVID-19 tests needed …
How Many Tests Do We Really Need?
We are all eager to return to normal or at least a new normal. Today’s limits on the availability of tests is the key bottleneck to re-opening We all know more tests are needed. But how many more? Given the urgency to …