COVID-19 Coverage

The Pandemic

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COVID-19 Pandemic Coverage

March 2022

  • SARS-CoV-2: Where Did It Come From, and Where Does It Go Next? Mar. 7. (Mara Aspinall)

February 2022

  • When Does COVID Normalcy Begin? Feb. 24. (Larry Corey)
  • The Omicron Story: The Winter of Our Discontent. Feb. 9. (Larry Corey)

January 2022

  • The Omicron Wave: A Review of the Research on Spread and Severity. Jan. 6. (Mara Aspinall)

December 2021

  • A Doctor’s View From the Front Line of the Omicron Wave. Dec. 30. (Alex Harding)
  • Controlling COVID: Masks, Treatments & Fast, Frequent Testing. Dec. 20. (Mara Aspinall)
  • The Long War. Dec. 15. (Otello Stampacchia)
  • Vaccines Must Produce Antibody and T cell Immunity. Dec. 14. (Harlan Robins)

November 2021

August 2021

  • Vaccination and the Delta Variant: 4 Steps Forward, 2 Steps Back. Aug. 16. (Larry Corey)

July 2021

June 2021

  • T-cell Immunity Analysis Wasn’t Practical at Scale Before COVID. Now It Is. June 10. (Chad Robins)

May 2021

  • RT-PCR Tests Have Quantitative Power for COVID-19. Let’s Use It. May 3. (Mara Aspinall)

April 2021

March 2021

  • Flying Blind on the Origin of the Pandemic. Mar. 29. (Ruth Etzioni)
  • AZ Tells Us Vaccine is OK. Rebuilding Trust Will Take a While. Mar. 22. (Luke Timmerman)
  • AZ’s Vaccine Mess. Mar. 16. (Luke Timmerman)
  • One Vaccine Dose or Two? We Need Our Best Defenses. Mar. 14. (Larry Corey)
  • Once Vaccinated, What To Do With Masks? Mar. 10. (Larry Corey)
  • J&J Vaccine: One Dose Delivers Strong Immune Response and Protection. Mar. 3. (Larry Corey)

February 2021

January 2021

December

  • Listening Through the Noise and Talking to Those Who Will Listen. Dec. 22. (Sam Blackman)
  • Science in the Face of Fear: Vaccine Hesitancy and Public Trust. Dec. 20. (Larry Corey)
  • There Is Light, But It’s a Long Tunnel. Dec. 19. (Otello Stampacchia)
  • A Triumph of the Scientific Enterprise. Dec. 17. (Luke Timmerman)
  • A Grateful Physician Reflects on Getting the Vaccine. Dec. 17. (Amanda Banks Christini)
  • Round 2: What’s Changed, and What Hasn’t in COVID-19 Treatment. Dec. 17. (Alex Harding)
  • The Vaccine Is Coming. Scientists Need to Stay Focused on Equity. Dec. 11. (Michele Andrasik)
  • Pfizer, BioNTech Gets Advisory OK. Now Comes the Hard Work. Dec. 10. (Luke Timmerman)
  • Vaccine Communication: An Opportunity for Biopharma to Lead. Dec. 10. (Kyle Serikawa)
  • Vaccine Trials: A Band of Brothers and Sisters. Dec. 7. (Larry Corey)
  • This COVID-19 Long Hauler is Still Trying to Recover. Dec. 7 (E. Blair Clark-Schoeb)
  • AZ’s Muddy Result. Dec. 3. (Luke Timmerman)
  • Vaccine Scarcity: Buckle Up for Debate. Dec. 1. (Larry Corey)
  • COVID Drives Development of At-Home Diagnostics. Dec. 1. (Frank Vinluan)

November

  • The Weather Outside is Frightful, and That’s Only the Half of It. Nov. 30. (Lisa Suennen)
  • Why I Volunteered for a Vaccine Trial. Nov. 25. (Mike Huckman)
  • Getting Married in 2020. Nov. 24. (Carolyn Ng)
  • A New Model for Vaccine Communications. Nov. 23. (Mike Kuczkowski)
  • Why Operation Warp Speed Studies Weren’t Limited to Severe Disease. Nov. 20. (Larry Corey)
  • The mRNA Vaccine News is Good. But Let’s Keep the Masks for Now. Nov. 18. (Larry Corey)
  • Pfizer, BioNTech’s Vaccine Watershed. Nov. 12. (Luke Timmerman)

October

September

  • COVID-19 Testing Needs to Be Open, Not Closed. Sept. 30. (Alex Dickinson)
  • What We Know and What We Don’t. Sept. 21. (Alex Harding)
  • Moderna & Pfizer Transparency & a Tribute to Bill Gates Sr. Sept. 17. (Luke Timmerman)
  • Industry and Academia Take a Stand for Science. Sept. 10 (Luke Timmerman)
  • FDA and CDC Credibility Tarnished; Pfizer Sprints Ahead With Vaccine. Sept. 3. (Luke Timmerman)

August

July

June

  • Q&A With Regeneron on Neutralizing Antibodies. June 29. (KJ Mulam)
  • How the US is Losing Against the Virus. June 26. (Otello Stampacchia)
  • The Exponential Curves Re-Emerge. June 26. (Luke Timmerman)
  • Inconvenient Truths and Rays of Light. June 11. (Luke Timmerman)
  • Making Drugs at the Edge of Reason. June 10. (Vicki Sato)
  • Anger, Pain and Hope. June 4. (Luke Timmerman)
  • Puretech Focuses on Long-Term Lung Complications in COVID19 Patients. June 2. (KJ Mulam)
  • Dig Deep and Fight Hard Against Injustice. June 1. (Rob Perez)

May

April

  • Tracking Viral Outbreaks. Emma Hodcroft on The Long Run. Apr. 30. (Luke Timmerman)
  • Keeping an Academic Lab Afloat. Apr. 28. (Jim Olson)
  • We Didn’t Become the World Biotech Leader By Sealing Ourselves Off. Apr. 28. (Bernat Olle)
  • Capturing Family History, While We Have Time. Apr. 27. (Leora Schiff)
  • How a Gesture Morphed Into a Full-Time Effort to Feed the Frontline. Apr. 27. (Ellen Kuwana)
  • A San Francisco Doctor Answers the Call to NYC. Apr. 25. (Ethan Weiss)
  • A Sad Week of Reckless Leadership. Apr. 24. (Luke Timmerman)
  • Build Back Better. Apr. 22. (David Shaywitz)
  • Massachusetts Biotechs Consider How to Return Safely. Apr. 22. (Adam Thomas)
  • How to Navigate a Blizzard of Antibody Studies. Apr. 21. (Ruth Etzioni)
  • Singapore Forgot to Check Its Blind Spot. Apr. 21. (Carolyn Ng)
  • Cultivating a Tolerance for Adversity in Our Teams. Apr. 20. (Eric Murphy)
  • The Real Question is How to Restart. Apr. 17. (Otello Stampacchia)
  • Walking the Diagnostic and Serologic Testing Tightrope. Apr. 17. (Ruth Etzioni)
  • Hunting for Antibodies: George Scangos on The Long Run. Apr. 17 (Luke Timmerman)
  • Bridging the Social Divide in the Pandemic. Apr. 17. (Dr. Alex Harding)
  • Serology Testing: Keep an Eye Out for Quick-and-Dirty Tests. Apr. 16. (Michael Koeris)
  • Scaling Up Antibodies and Vaccines Won’t Be Easy. Apr. 16. (Jim Thomas)
  • Don’t Waste This Crisis: Solving the Patient Cost-Share Problem. Apr. 15. (Jeff Berkowitz)
  • Drug Repurposing to Keep COVID19 Patients Out of the ICU. Apr. 15. (Robert Plenge)
  • A Healthcare Investor, and Doctor, Peering into the Fog. Apr. 14. (David Sable)
  • The Pandemic Takes a Certain Kind of Toll on African Americans. Apr. 14. (Stephen Graham)
  • Why COVID-19 Can’t Be Compared With Flu. Apr. 14. (Ruth Etzioni)
  • The Testing Fiasco Continues. Apr. 9. (Luke Timmerman)
  • Facing the Consequences of a Misinformation Pandemic. Apr. 8. (Kyle Serikawa)
  • Rationale for Testing Anticoagulants Against COVID19. Apr. 7. (Ethan Weiss)
  • Not All COVID-19 Models Are Created Equal. Apr. 7. (Ruth Etzioni)
  • I’ve Got a Fund Full of Toilet Paper and I’m Ready to Deal. Apr. 6. (Lisa Suennen)
  • Where the Puck is Going: Serologic Testing. Apr. 6 (Michael Koeris)
  • Loss & Grief During Covid19. Apr. 6. (Dr. Katherine Shear, Laurel Mayer & Jeff Lieberman)
  • Diagnostic Dysfunction: Mike Pellini on The Long Run. Apr. 4. (Luke Timmerman)
  • A Baffling Coronavirus Response. Frontpoints. Apr. 2. (Luke Timmerman)
  • A Chance at Redemption for US Healthcare. Apr. 2. (Leora Schiff)
  • Thinking Ahead: Building a Broad Arsenal Against Infectious Disease. Apr. 1. (Ankit Mahadevia)
  • Building on Our Immunology Understanding, Seeing Reasons for Hope. Apr. 1. (Doug Williams)
  • What’s the Real Risk of Death from COVID19? Apr. 1. (Otello Stampacchia)

March

February

January