Hank Greely
I'm a Stanford law prof. I work on ethical, legal, and social issues arising from biosciences. I had a book come out in May 2016: The End of Sex. (Don't worry)
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In Chicago, 70% of COVID-19 Deaths Are Black
While black residents make up only 23 percent of the population in Cook County, they account for more than half of the COVID-19 deaths.
Bet Big on Treatments for Coronavirus
Antivirals and antibody therapies are showing promise. The FDA needs to step up its pace.
The Social Life of Genes: Shaping Your Molecular Composition
Your DNA is not a blueprint. Day by day, week by week, your genes are in a conversation with your surroundings. Your neighbors, your family, your feelings of loneliness: They don't just get under your skin, they get into the control rooms of your...
Tiger at Bronx Zoo in New York City tests positive for coronavirus
The zoo said its cats were infected by a person caring for them who was had COVID-19
George W. Bush in 2005: 'If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare'
In the summer of 2005, President George W. Bush was on vacation when he began flipping through an advanced copy of a new book about the 1918 flu pandemic.
If You Have Coronavirus Symptoms, Assume You Have the Illness, Even if You Test Negative
Just because a coronavirus test says you don’t have the virus doesn’t mean you aren’t infected — or infectious.
Trump says 200,000 Americans could die from coronavirus, because he’s done "a very good job"
The goalposts just moved drastically.
The latest incredibly disturbing Coronavirus symptom impacts your brain
According to research by neurologists, a small subset of COVID-19 patients is showing brain diseases or dysfunctions.
Official Counts Understate the U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll
Inconsistent protocols, limited resources and a patchwork of decision-making has led to an undercounting of people with the coronavirus who have died, health experts say.
Hank Greely
/2 And another excellent piece on death undercounts nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/… Less analytic, more focused on human stories from around the country. Nice e.g. of 2 different journalistic approaches to basically the same story.
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Why We Don’t Know How Many Americans Are Infected With Coronavirus—and Might Never Know
Sparse testing is just one reason the official tally is far too low.
Editorial: It's time for the networks to stop live broadcast of Trump's briefings
The coronavirus task force briefings have ceased to be informative. They serve to keep the spotlight on Trump for his political promotion.
U.S. 'wasted' months before preparing for virus pandemic
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China might ignite a global pandemic, the Trump administration squandered nearly two...
Navy Captain Removed From Carrier Tests Positive for Covid-19
Captain Crozier was fired after a leak of a letter he had emailed to Navy leaders detailing the service's failures in dealing with a coronavirus outbreak on the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt.
Shortage of Test Components Forces Labs to Beg, Borrow and Improvise
As diagnostic testing continues to pick up speed in the U.S., shortages of some supplies and a backlog of samples have pushed hospitals, academic medical centers and labs to create their own patchwork solutions.
To Beat the Coronavirus, Raise an Army of the Recovered
We are at war, and this is our draft. Immunity comes with responsibility.
David Lat, Eyeing Hospital Discharge, Talks About His Battle and Donating Blood to COVID-19 Research
I don't think I've fully wrapped my head—and heart—around the enormity of what I've just been through,” he said during his first interview since returning to stable condition, conducted via direct messaging on Twitter. And I'm so grateful to be...
BioEdge: Iran’s coronavirus disaster compounded by fake remedy
Bootleg methanol kills and blinds
Hank Greely
Ouch! Iran has seen a quack COVID cure (preventive): drinking methanol. Hundreds dead bioedge.org/bioethics/iran… Whiskey cure on social media; ethanol v methanol not widely known; methanol blackened to warn but black market suppliers added bleach to remove the color. HT @bioedge
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New York Is the Epicenter of the World
The hidden gift in this pandemic is that we learn how to prepare for the worse one still to come.
NEW DETAILS: Georgia beaches reopening as of Friday night
Some of the state’s most popular beaches will be allowed to reopen Friday night due to Gov. Brian Kemp’s statewide order superseding that of some city-level shelter-in-place mandates.
A German Exception? Why the Country’s Coronavirus Death Rate Is Low
The pandemic has hit Germany hard, with more than 91,000 people infected. But the percentage of fatal cases has been remarkably low compared to those in many neighboring countries.
Hank Greely
Good piece on the German low COVID deaths. Many reasons but a good public health system is big. Scary, tho (near article's end) - even w/all that, they aren't sure they will be able to avoid triage in a few weeks. & they're infinitely better than us.
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