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 …
Karma Impact Interviews William Haseltine on Funding for Covid-19 Drugs
It all comes down to money and early funding to develop drugs against COVID-19. Ground-floor funding of drug research makes all the difference in whether a potential pharmaceutical solution hits the marketplace in a timely fashion, Dr. Deepak Srivastava of the biomedical …
A Vaccine Candidate Protects Non-Human Primates From SARS-CoV-2 Infection
A pre-print in BioRxiv from a Beijing based biotechnology company company, Sinovac, describes protection of macaque monkeys from infection by SARS-CoV-2 by a vaccine candidate. The candidate is a “killed virus” vaccine prepared by inactivating live virus with beta-Propriolactone, a standard procedure …
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 …
How Business Leaders Can Respond Covid-19
Many management books talk about the importance of building trust with customers in order to succeed, but in the age of Covid, trust takes on new meaning. When businesses reopen, the behavior of customers will be critical to containing new outbreaks. Customers …
Houston Public Media Interviews William A. Haseltine
In ths special edition of Houston Matters, host Ernie Manouse is joined by Dr. William Haseltine, a scientist, biotech entrepreneur, chair and president of ACCESS Health International, chair of US/China Health Summit, and a former professor at Harvard Medical School. Listen to …
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 …
Monoclonal Antibodies Could Help Fight Against Coronavirus
A group of Chinese scientists report the isolation of two human monoclonal antibodies with the potential to treat and to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infections, the causative agent of COVID-19. The work is described in a manuscript made available by Nature Cellular and Molecular …
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 …
In Some Hospitals, Surviving COVID Is Almost Twice As Likely
Earlier this month I published a story in Forbes on the importance of reducing in-hospital death rates. Even among the “best” hospitals in Manhattan, the chances of leaving by the morgue instead of the front door are twice as high in some …
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