4
May
2020
If We’re Smart, COVID19 Will Strengthen Our Defense Against Drug-Resistant Bugs
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1
May
2020
A Time for Empathy
This is a fragile moment. It’s May 1. Some of us have been in social isolation for two solid months. Everyone’s at some point on the continuum of stir crazy. More than 30 million people are out of work. Tempers are flaring. Protestors are carrying guns. It’s obvious we can’t sustain a maximalist social-distancing policy much longer. Today, we have... Read More
30
Apr
2020
Real-Time Tracking of Viral Outbreaks: Emma Hodcroft on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Emma Hodcroft. Emma is a molecular epidemiologist at the University of Basel, and the co-developer of Nextstrain. NextStrain is the open-source toolkit built for real-time tracking of viral outbreaks. In the early days, teams led by Trevor Bedford at Fred Hutch and Richard Neher in Basel used it to track viral evolution of... Read More
28
Apr
2020
Keeping an Academic Lab Afloat in a Pandemic
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28
Apr
2020
We Didn’t Become the World Biotech Leader By Sealing Ourselves Off
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27
Apr
2020
Capturing Family History, While We Have Time
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27
Apr
2020
How a Simple Gesture Morphed Into a Full-Time Effort to Feed the Frontline
As a night owl, I relish the “me time” hours from midnight to 2 a.m. Snuggled in bed, the rest of my family asleep, I scroll through the news and laugh at friends’ video posts. Like many other science writers, I spent many of those quiet hours in February following the relentless spread of the new SARS-CoV-2 virus, especially as... Read More
25
Apr
2020
A San Francisco Doctor Answers the Call to New York
The week things got really interesting was the week of March 16. That’s when Sara Cody, the Santa Clara County public health officer, and her legion of public health heroes made the gutsy call – the first of its kind in the nation — to shut things down in the entire 6-county San Francisco Bay Area, home to more than... Read More
24
Apr
2020
A Sad Week of Reckless Leadership
The first US death from COVID-19 was reported on Feb. 29. Today, Apr. 24, the US death toll exceeds 50,000. That’s more than Italy and Spain combined. Even though we had early warning. It’s tragic. There’s also a reason why the death toll hasn’t been higher. It’s because of large-scale physical distancing in this expansive country of 330 million people.... Read More
22
Apr
2020
Massachusetts Biotechs Consider How to Return Safely, and Create a New Normal
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22
Apr
2020
Build Back Better
As the nation has struggled to cope with the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has become the voice so many have looked to for support and leadership. What Cuomo seems both to offer and effectively communicate is not just a mastery of the facts, but also a grounded yet hopeful narrative. The story he projects... Read More
21
Apr
2020
How to Navigate the Blizzard of COVID-19 Antibody Studies
What is the single thing you wish you knew about COVID-19? Here is what I wonder about most. How many of us have had it already without knowing it – either because we did not have symptoms, or because we thought it was something else, or because we thought it might be COVID-19 but we could not get tested?... Read More
21
Apr
2020
Singapore’s COVID19 Crisis: Forgetting to Check the Blind Spot
It is with a heavy heart that I pen this follow-up piece on Singapore’s COVID19 situation. In the past few months, the city state has been hailed as an exemplar of early, preemptive and targeted response to combat the pandemic. Other countries have studied its response. As I wrote here on Mar. 19, despite being a densely populated high-risk state,... Read More
20
Apr
2020
Cultivating a Tolerance for Adversity in Our Teams and Our Communities
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17
Apr
2020
The Real Question is How to Restart
When?? When can we finally go back to something resembling a “normal” life, go back to work and restart our economies, embrace again long-lost family, friends, co-workers? And, in too many cases, when can we get together to properly mourn those we have lost? I cannot tell you “when.” Everyone wants the answer to that question. I do, too. But... Read More
17
Apr
2020
Getting it Right: Walking the Diagnostic and Serologic Testing Tightrope
Last week I felt like I was coming down with something. My throat hurt and I had a bit of a dry cough. A dreadful feeling set in. Obviously, I had COVID-19. My mother and her partner, both in their 70s, are currently living with me in Seattle. My friend’s son had recently returned from New York. A few days... Read More
17
Apr
2020
Hunting for Antibodies Against COVID19: George Scangos on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is George Scangos. George is the CEO of San Francisco-based VIR Biotechnology. VIR has been all over the news the past couple months. It’s at the forefront of companies racing to discover and develop broadly neutralizing antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that’s sparked a global pandemic. VIR was founded in early 2017 by some... Read More
17
Apr
2020
Bridging the Social Divide in the Pandemic
Halfway through an explanation to a patient I am treating for a suspected case of COVID-19, I realize I don’t know the Spanish term for “sanitizing wipes.” I’m in my new clinical home base, where Massachusetts General Hospital has cordoned off special care for COVID-19 patients. There are modular plastic walls and bright fluorescent lights. A few weeks ago, this... Read More
16
Apr
2020
Serology Testing: Keep an Eye Out for Quick-and-Dirty Tests
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16
Apr
2020
Scaling Up Biotech Drugs and Vaccines Against COVID19 Won’t Be Easy
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