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 …
This Is How You Can Return To Work Safely
Public health experts agree on the need for widespread testing to be in place before businesses can reopen and the economy restarts. But not every government official is on board. In May, there is a real risk that Americans will be asked …
This Is How You Can Return To Work Safely
Public health experts agree on the need for widespread testing to be in place before businesses can reopen and the economy restarts. But not every government official is on board. In May, there is a real risk that Americans will be asked …
Washington Post Covers Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 with ACCESS Health Chair and President
At the height of Fox News’s coverage of a would-be treatment for the novel coronavirus, the network’s medical correspondent, Marc Siegel, offered a remarkable testimonial during Tucker Carlson’s show. Siegel said his 96-year-old father, suffering from symptoms of the virus and fearing …
What Did We Know And When Did We Know It? Disease Surveillance: Past, Present And Future
What can we know, when can we know it, and what can we do with what we know? As COVID-19 moves through our world wreaking destruction upon our social fabric, our lives, and our economies these questions return to haunt me. I …
Why COVID? Nature’s Code Cracking Machine Intelligence
COVID-19 is a pandemic that never had to happen. To prevent another—or one even worse—we have to internalize a simple lesson about life on earth that we tend to forget. Nature, for all its beauty and wonder, is out to get us. …
Washington Post Column on Technology to Combat Covid-19 Features William A. Haseltine
The last time the United States faced a big, hard-to-track threat, we ended up with the Patriot Act and a mass-surveillance program that still rankles. This time, how do we use technology to combat the novel coronavirus without creating elements of a police state? …
The New Normal For Hospital Care
Most hospitals and doctors offices are closed for business as usual. Many remain open for exceptional emergencies such as near fatal heart attacks and life threatening accidents. That leaves many of us without routine care or even care for serious chronic illness. …
Arizona Republic Features William A. Haseltine on Coronavirus Testing
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 …
Daily Beast Features William A. Haseltine on Undiagnosed Cases of Covid-19
It’s a comforting thought at a time of mass death from an historic and unpredictable pandemic: What if I had it already—maybe even that time I felt sick a few months ago? After all, while antibody testing is only now being rolled …
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