US hospitals are unprepared for the spread of coronavirus. Here’s what they need to do.
This piece by ACCESS Health Chair and President William A. Haseltine originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times. When the new coronavirus COVID-19 first broke out, China’s health care system was unprepared. Hospital waiting rooms were so packed with prospective patients that …
Scientists warned about coronavirus for years but got nowhere. Here’s how to fix that.
This article, written by ACCESS Health Chair and President William A. Haseltine, originally appeared in the Washington Post. Nature is teaching us a heavy lesson with this latest coronavirus outbreak. It warned us first with SARS and then with MERS, but we didn’t …
Why Are We So Fearful of the New Coronavirus?
This article was originally published on Psychology Today. In the thick of a disease outbreak, the line between panic and preparedness can feel perilously thin. For individuals living with comorbidities like chronic lung and immunodeficiency diseases, the new coronavirus is deadly. To …
Prince Mahidol Side Meeting on Digital Technology to Achieve Universal Healthcare
ACCESS Health recently co-hosted a side meeting with Health Futures partner FHI360 on the use of digital technology in achieving universal healthcare. The side meeting was held at Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) in Bangkok, Thailand, a gathering that attracts hundreds of …
Want to Prevent Another Coronavirus Epidemic?
This article was originally published on Scientific American. Once again we stand unprepared as the third epidemic of a new and deadly coronavirus races around the world. This need not have been the case. We should have learned from the SARS epidemic …
The US isn’t defenseless against the coronavirus, but it is unprepared
This article was originally published on Quartz. “We have it totally under control.” “It’s going to be just fine.” Those were the words of US president Donald Trump when he recently weighed in on news of the potential spread of the new …
Solving The Coronavirus Identity Crisis: A Strategy For Prevention
This article was originally published on Forbes. The new coronavirus, like its predecessors, is a beast to be reckoned with. And yet its working name, 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), is curiously tame. So technical and nondescript a label is hardly befitting of …
Escalate Federal Action Against The Coronavirus Before It’s Too Late
This article was originally published on Forbes. The 2019 coronavirus, otherwise known as 2019-nCoV, is spreading faster and further each day. This past Sunday, infectious disease experts told The New York Times that a full blown pandemic is increasingly likely, if not inevitable. Why, then, …
What Governments Must Do To Deliver An Anti Coronavirus Drug Within Months
This article originally appeared on Forbes. The world needs an anti coronavirus drug as soon as possible—and there is something the United States government can do right now to achieve that. STAT News recently reported that most big pharma companies have been reluctant to join the …
What Makes This Coronavirus Different—And What We Can Do About It
This article originally appeared on Forbes. To date, more than 4,500 people have contracted 2019-nCoV, the new coronavirus that first appeared in Wuhan, China and has spread to numerous countries around the world. The first death from the severe viral respiratory disease was announced …