Each year, nearly 1 million women choose to end a pregnancy in the United States, and about one quarter of American women will use abortion services by 45 years of age. Women’s ability to determine whether and when they have a child has profound consequences for their self-determination and for the…
Thu May 07, 2020 03:00
As Americans report ever-growing difficulty affording their prescription drugs, President Donald Trump has come under increasing pressure to act. To date, the Trump administration has attempted to advance a number of policy initiatives by means of executive action, but it has not yet adopted a…
Thu May 07, 2020 03:00
I have been thinking a lot about fear lately, and how much it behaves like a virus. How it can spread insidiously, person to person, or airborne, through new media and old, faster than we can contain it. How it induces so many of the same symptoms as a virus does: sweating, palpitation, nausea,…
Thu May 07, 2020 03:00
Ebola virus (EBOV) was the best-known and most extensively studied member of the Filoviridae family (Mononegavirales order) long before the shattering 2013–2016 West African epidemic. The virologic taxon Filoviridae was defined in 1982 and subsequently amended regularly to accommodate changes.…
Thu May 07, 2020 03:00
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing clinicians, health care institutions, and public officials to develop crisis standards of care that differ radically from ordinary care for services such as diagnostic testing and mechanical ventilation. Under normal conditions, cardiopulmonary resuscitation…
Wed May 06, 2020 03:00
"Try Googling ‘record-setting lake trout New Hampshire,’" I found myself saying recently to an anxious patient while we explored ways to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. He loves fishing, and I remembered a story in the paper recently — just barely pre-plague — that showed a smiling sportsman…
Wed May 06, 2020 03:00
To rapidly communicate short reports of innovative responses to Covid-19 around the world, along with a range of current thinking on policy and strategy relevant to the pandemic, the Journal has initiated the Covid-19 Notes series. The Covid-19 pandemic has forced health care providers to…
Wed May 06, 2020 03:00
In early April, Wisconsin and Michigan released data showing stark racial disparities in rates of Covid-19 cases and deaths. In those states, many media outlets noted that the percentages of affected people who were black were more than twice as high as the proportion of blacks in the overall…
Wed May 06, 2020 03:00
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