What is Science as a Superpower About?
ACCESS Health Chair and President William A. Haseltine, PhD, has dedicated his life to healing as many people as possible through science. He was a professor at Harvard Medical School where he developed and helped find cures for diseases such as cancer …
Report Release: Assessment of the Accessibility of Commercial Insurance in China for People with Disabilities Report
On March 26, 2021, the “Assessment of the Accessibility of Commercial Insurance in China for People with Disabilities” report release event was officially held in Beijing. The report conference was jointly launched by Yibaojihua, ACCESS Health China, and the Beijing AE Foundation. …
ACCESS Health Philippines: A Look Back On 2020 And Look Ahead To 2021
With the pandemic’s onset, 2020 became a year of transition for the Philippines office. The introduction of quarantines necessitated a move online for nearly all our projects and activities. Nevertheless, our work continued and we were able to complete a number of …
Elderly care: What Germany can learn from the rest of the world
Abstract: Sustainable elderly care becomes increasingly challenging in a rapidly ageing world. Being the third oldest nation globally, Germany is facing significant societal changes and demographic pressures. Bold and far-reaching reforms to revolutionise senior care are urgently required. Here, we review Germany’s …
Do Not Ignore Covid-19 Safety This Thanksgiving
After months of isolation and quarantine, many hoped that Covid-19 would be under control by the holiday season so families could reunite. As Thanksgiving approaches, that hope feels like a distant memory as daily cases reach record highs in the United States. …
Why We Can’t Rely On Natural Immunity To Protect Us From Covid-19
There is a question that has crossed all our minds at some point, yet has no satisfactory answer: If I’m infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, how long am I immune? A more technical way of asking the same question …
The University Of Illinois’s COVID-19 Control Shows That Mass Testing Is The Answer
The University of Illinois implemented an aggressive testing campaign to reign in the spread of COVID-19. The operation involves testing the entire student body and faculty twice per week—around fifteen thousand tests each day. Students tested positive are alerted and quarantined while …
Why Most Voters Oppose Schools Reopening
Even as test rates hover around six to seven percent and tens of thousands of new Covid-19 cases are being reported daily, school districts across the country will continue with plans to resume operations in the coming weeks. The latest survey data …
What Restarting Sports And Reopening Schools Have In Common
On Saturday, the Mid-American Conference became the first Football Bowl Subdivision to postpone its upcoming season. The announcement comes amidst the most recent debate about schools doing the exact opposite—reopening and requiring students and faculty to return to campus. While many conferences, …
New Evidence Suggests Young Children Spread Covid-19 More Efficiently Than Adults
Two new studies, though from different parts of the world, have arrived at the same conclusion: that young children not only transmit SARS-CoV-2 efficiently, but may be major drivers of the pandemic as well. The first, which as published in JAMA yesterday, reports findings from a …