Coronavirus spotlights overuse of hospital emergency rooms
Patient visits to emergency rooms have dropped precipitously since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. This could be a sign of emergency room overuse. More
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Pandemic Science Out of Control
From Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, how a toxic legacy of poor-quality research, media hype, lax regulatory oversight, and vicious partisanship has come home to roost in the search for effective treatments for COVID-19. More
What do we owe doctors and nurses?
If this pandemic can be compared to a war, we have sent our soldiers—our medical professionals—to the front lines without the protection and protocols they need to survive. In order to retain health professionals after this epidemic, we must answer their long-held concerns—and involve them in charting new policies and ways of keeping them healthy enough to tend the sick. Call it the GI Bill for Healthcare Professionals, if you will. More
Lack of beds, ventilators, and coordination: what the coronavirus has taught us about the deficiencies of the U.S. health system
The U.S. health system was ill-equipped for a major pandemic, experts say, citing a host of issues from a lack of hospital beds and medical professionals, to a patchwork system that lacks centralized control. More