New York Times Features William A. Haseltine on Covid-19
Alice Wolowitz, a student nurse, began her shift at a hospital one morning in Philadelphia. She fell sick during the shift, rapidly declined and was dead that night. That was 1918, and people were collapsing and dying everywhere from a Spanish flu …
Mapping A Better Life For Older Adults Of New York
Two weeks ago, The New York Academy of Medicine relaunched its data visualization tool IMAGE: NYC, otherwise known as the Interactive Map of Aging. Created in partnership with the Center for Urban Research at CUNY, the open source, data driven map helps …
Daily Beast Features William A. Haseltine on Covid-19
Sooner or later it will almost inevitably happen. Though novel 2019 coronavirus cases in the United States have so far ticked up in fits and starts, experts on deadly diseases say Americans should be prepared to see an overnight boom in cases …
U.S. hospitals are unprepared for the spread of coronavirus. Here’s what they should do
When the new coronavirus COVID-19 first broke out, China’s healthcare system was unprepared. Hospital waiting rooms were so packed with prospective patients that hundreds more had no choice but to line up outside. Many waited several hours, only to be turned away …
Years of coronavirus warnings got us nowhere. Here’s how to fix that.
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 heed the warnings. If we willfully ignore nature this third time, our global community risks paying an …
Why Are We so Fearful of the New Coronavirus?
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 protect them, certain precautions are, indeed, necessary, including …
Escalate Federal Action Against The Coronavirus Before It’s Too Late
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, is the response of …
What Governments Must Do To Deliver An Anti Coronavirus Drug Within Months
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 search for …
The US isn’t defenseless against the coronavirus, but it is unprepared
“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 coronavirus, dubbed the 2019-novel coronavirus, or 2019-nCoV, …
USA Today Features William A. Haseltine on Covid-19
At the height of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa five years ago, federal health officials faced what seemed like an impossible request: Could U.S. airports screen passengers for the deadly virus when they arrived from three hard-hit nations, Guinea, Liberia and …
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