Pfizer, Moderna and other companies are banking on regular Covid-19 vaccinations as an important business line for years to come.
Category: Policy
This looks a lot different from the trenches: from consulting to the COVID ward
As a young and optimistic business school graduate, I recall when the consulting firm I worked for was retained to evaluate “USA Hospital and Medical Clinics” (pseudonym). “USA” had grown quickly and was struggling to manage the recent expansion. We in…
Google Launches $3 Million Fund To Tackle Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation
Google says it wants to help particular groups of people that are being targeted with false and misleading information about Covid-19 vaccines.
Pfizer, BioNTech Boost Vaccine Production Goal To 2 Billion Doses In 2021
The companies also expect to apply their mRNA vaccine technology to other diseases, such as flu.
Democracy and the health of a nation
I am a Philadelphian. I was born in a hospital within a few blocks of Independence Hall, where the Constitution was written, and of Thomas Jefferson’s lodging, where the Declaration of Independence was drafted. Whether it was elementary school trips to…
Why states need to develop rural health outreach programs
Disparities in rural health care have been well established with respect to socioeconomic status, race, and geography. COVID-19 brought these disparities to the surface within most rural communities in the United States, highlighting the limited access…
Undecided On Getting A Covid-19 Vaccine? Beware Of These Two Cognitive Biases
Dr. Joshua Liao discusses how people can approach the decision to get vaccinated and avoid some common biases that may distort perceptions of vaccine safety and efficacy.
Medicine is failing rural Americans
In recent years, the divide between rural and urban areas of the United States has become more pronounced, with sharply divergent views on both social and economic policies. The results of this latest election show starkly that the divide persists, and…
The ethics of rationing care during COVID
I recently read an opinion by a physician regarding the decision as to which COVID patient would receive care and which would not when hospitals became too full to care for every patient. He suggested that no one need be denied care if some structural …
The Covid-19 Pandemic And The Case For Healthcare As A Fundamental Freedom
Dr. Vanessa Kerry, cofounder and CEO of Seed Global Health, explains why the U. S. should take a rights-based approached to healthcare as a pillar of society on the anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famous “Four Freedoms” speech.
