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How Coronavirus Is Fast-Tracking Medical Research
The first Covid-19 cases arrived at Stanford’s hospital about two weeks ago, during the second week of March, mostly from the local community. “It’s a condition that has no known definitive treatment,” says Neera Ahuja, medical professor, hospitalist, and medical director of the general medicine inpatient wards at Stanford University. The trends from China suggested…
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Confused About “Shelter in Place”? Read This.
Stay at home and shelter in place. These are our instructions. Dr. Anthony Fauci from the NIH has advised us to stay at home. California Governor Gavin Newsom and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered residents to shelter in place. Connecticut and Illinois have followed suit. My city, Dallas, announced it yesterday. Other places will…
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Lives or Livelihoods? COVID-19 and the economy
In the middle of an unthinkable crisis, all we can do is take on each challenge as we find it. But does that mean we will fail to prepare for a very different Britain after? What is only a week, seems to have lasted forever, but does that make thinking about the future too hard?…
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Coronavirus Advice From America’s Foremost Ebola Doctor
Dr. Bruce Ribner, who successfully treated multiple Americans with Ebola in 2014, offers perspective on Covid-19 There’s little denying that the United States was ill-prepared for the coronavirus pandemic. Testing capacity is still staggeringly slow, health workers don’t have enough protective equipment, and there are not enough ventilators. But the United States is not without…
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This Is How Your Immune System Reacts to Coronavirus
People infected with the novel coronavirus can have markedly different experiences. Some report having nothing more than symptoms of a mild cold; others are hospitalized and even die as their lungs become inflamed and fill up with fluid. How can the same virus result in such different outcomes?
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Coronavirus: Containing the financial contagion
The coronavirus is clearly threatening to trigger a financial contagion in the world economy and this time the impact could be very different from the scenarios experienced in the financial crisis of 2008. We are witnessing the phase one of this epidemic, where the focus of every country is to take care of the health…