Analysis: Don鈥檛 Want a Vaccine? Be Prepared to Pay More for Insurance.
Health insurers could do more to encourage vaccination, including letting the unvaccinated foot their bills.
Analysis: Necessary or Not, Covid Booster Shots Are Probably on the Horizon
In today鈥檚 pharmaceutical universe, a simple 鈥渟afe and effective鈥 determination by the Food and Drug Administration to approve a drug can be manipulated to sell products of questionable value. And drugmakers can profit handsomely.
Why We May Never Know Whether the $56,000-a-Year Alzheimer鈥檚 Drug Actually Works
It could take years for follow-up studies to prove Aduhelm slows the disease 鈥 or doesn鈥檛. Meanwhile, its maker will profit.
Analysis: Why We鈥檒l Likely Never Know Whether a Covid Lab Leak Happened in China
If international scientific sleuths are hoping to see a lab log or find a whistleblower, that sort of information won鈥檛 be revealed. In China today, it is dangerous to say what you know if it challenges the official government narrative.
Telemedicine Is a Tool 鈥 Not a Replacement for Your Doctor鈥檚 Touch
The pandemic has demonstrated that virtual medicine is great for simple visits. But many new types of telemedicine promoted by start-ups more clearly benefit providers鈥 and investors鈥 pockets, rather than yielding more convenient, high-quality and cost-effective medicine for patients.
Analysis: I Was a Teenage Rifle Owner, Then an ER Doctor. Assault Weapons Shouldn’t Count as ‘Guns.’
The United States has undergone a cultural, definitional, practical shift on guns and what they are for.
Analysis: How the US Invested in the War on Terrorism at the Cost of Public Health
After 9/11, as our defenses against international and bioterrorism hardened, our defenses against infectious diseases shrank. By the time a deadly virus arrived on our shores last year, nearly two-thirds of Americans were living in counties that spend more than twice as much on policing as they spend on public health.
Analysis: The Trump Health Care Policies That Deserve to Stick Around
President Joe Biden may want to continue the previous administration鈥檚 efforts to lower drug prices and make medical costs transparent.
Beijing鈥檚 SARS Lockdown Taught My Children Resilience. Your Covid Kids Will Likely Be Fine.
Living through SARS taught my children important lessons, and not just about hygiene. It taught them how to make sacrifices for the sake of friends, family and community.
With Demand Far Exceeding Supply, It Matters That People Are Jumping the Vaccine Line
When hospital administrators and politicians鈥 spouses get immunized before people more at risk, it undermines confidence in the system.
Analysis: Some Said the Vaccine Rollout Would Be a 鈥楴ightmare.鈥 They Were Right.
There are already signs that the distribution of the COVID vaccines will be messy, confusing and chaotic.
It鈥檚 Time to Scare People About COVID
Our public messaging about the virus should explain the real costs 鈥 in graphic terms 鈥 of catching the virus.
Voz de un experto: los niveles de seguridad que propone Fauci durante COVID
El doctor Anthony Fauci, la autoridad m谩xima en enfermedades infecciosas del pa铆s, dice que, si la mayor铆a de las personas se vacuna, se lograr铆a cierta “normalidad” a mediados de 2021.
Take It From an Expert: Fauci鈥檚 Hierarchy of Safety During COVID
In a new interview, the nation’s top infectious disease expert tells us how to survive the coming months and describes how hard it is when people still insist the coronavirus outbreak is 鈥渇ake news.鈥
An谩lisis: el invierno llega para los bares. C贸mo salvarlos. Y salvarnos.
Son lugares de alto riesgo de propagaci贸n. 驴Por qu茅 no compensar a los propietarios para que cierren sus negocios para proteger la salud p煤blica?
Analysis: Winter Is Coming for Bars. Here鈥檚 How to Save Them. And Us.
To stop the coronavirus, we need to stop super-spreader events.
Analysis: 鈥楧on鈥檛 Be Afraid of COVID鈥? Not Buying It, Unless Businesses Do Job Right
COVID precautions may seem like overkill. But I won’t set foot in a store unless certain steps are taken.
Cumplimos reglas con el cintur贸n de seguridad o el cigarillo. 驴Por qu茅 no con las m谩scaras?
Treinta y cuatro estados y Washington, D.C., tienen alg煤n tipo de mandato sobre el uso de m谩scara, pero muchos ciudadanos y agencias del orden los ignoran descaradamente.
Analysis: We Follow Laws on Seat Belts and Smoking. Why Not on Masks?
Americans have gotten used to all sorts of mandates, from cleaning up after dogs to stopping at intersections. There鈥檚 no reason it should be this hard to enforce ones around the coronavirus.
Analysis: You鈥檝e Checked for Fever. Now, What鈥檚 Your Risk Tolerance?
Getting out of our bunkers doesn鈥檛 mean throwing caution to the wind.
