Month: November 2020

There is no shortage of nurses nationally. But in places where one exists, the pandemic is pushing hospitals to the breaking point. View original article Contributor: Lenny Bernstein

As a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations ravage the Upper Midwest, health-care workers deal with severely ill patients who remain skeptical about the existence of the virus. View original article Contributor: Paulina Villegas

The announcement puts the United States on track to have two strikingly effective coronavirus vaccines available in coming weeks. View original article Contributor: Carolyn Y. Johnson

There is no shortage of nurses nationally. But in places where one exists, the pandemic is pushing hospitals to the breaking point. View original article Contributor: Lenny Bernstein

“This is not going to dig us out of what’s ahead this next month,” Natalie Dean, a biostatistician at the University of Florida, warned about Thanksgiving and the coming holiday season. View original article Contributor:

Pfizer provided less detail in its announcement last week on Nov. 9 than Moderna did on Monday, Nov. 16. Pfizer’s outside board of experts analyzed 94 volunteers and estimated that the effectiveness of its vaccine was over 90 percent. They did not specify how many people who got sick had received the vaccine or the … Read more

Very much so. The United States government provided $1 billion in support for the design and testing of the Moderna vaccine. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health oversaw much of the research, including the clinical trials. Moderna also received an additional $1.5 billion in exchange for 100 million doses if the vaccine proved to … Read more

A former Jesuit priest and leader in bioethics, he believed that an ethicist should be part of a patient’s medical team when hard decisions have to be made. View original article Contributor: