Covid-19: Don’t think pandemic is over, Whitty warns
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Unlocking too quickly would lead to a substantial surge in infection, the UK’s chief medical adviser says. BBC News – Health
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The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities
A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. economy, jobs, and peoples’ household finances — in particular, medical spending. In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. This broad-spanning patient… Read More »
The Remarkable Rise of Pharma’s Reputation in the Pandemic
The reputation of the pharmaceutical industry gained a “whopping” 30 points between January 2020 and February 2021, based on the latest Harris Poll in their research into industries’ reputations. The study was written up by Beth Snyder Bulik in FiercePharma. Beth writes that, “a whopping two-thirds of Americans now offer a thumbs-up on pharma” as… Read More »
Imagining a pandemic as a physician novelist [PODCAST]
The Podcast by KevinMD | Podcast | November 7, 2020 “There are some things that we are living through as a result of COVID-19 that I did not imagine in my fictional account. For example: the timeline. As we are now four full months into this pandemic in the U.S., some experts estimate that we… Read More »