Jeffrey Flier
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Formerly Dean of HMS.
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Human challenge studies to accelerate coronavirus vaccine licensure
Abstract. Controlled human challenge trials of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidates could accelerate the testing and potential rollout of efficacious vaccines. By rep
Harvard Scientists Find Link Between Coronavirus and Loss of Smell | News | The Harvard Crimson
A team of Harvard scientists led by professor Sandeep R. Datta found that certain cells in the nose express genes that facilitate COVID-19 infection.
Jeffrey Flier
Harvard Scientists Find Link Between Coronavirus and Loss of Smell | excellent work from Bob Datta- News | The Harvard Crimson
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Cigarette smoke triggers the expansion of a subpopulation of respiratory epithelial cells that express the SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2
The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has infected more than 600,000 people and has overwhelmed hospital systems around the world. However, the factors mediating fatal SARS-CoV-2 infections are poorly understood. Here, we show that cigarette smoke causes a...
Covid-19 in Critically Ill Patients in the Seattle Region — Case Series | NEJM
Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Covid-19 in Critically Ill Patients in the Seattle Region — Case Series
Frightened Doctors Face Off With Hospitals Over Rules on Protective Gear
Many hospitals bar doctors and other staff members from wearing protective masks in public areas. Some have been disciplined for pushing back.
UW-Madison will be a clinical trial site for a coronavirus treatment that uses plasma from recovered patients
UW-Madison has joined a national effort to use the plasma of recovered coronavirus patients to treat those suffering from the COVID-19 virus.
A Look at the $100 Billion for Hospitals in the CARES Act
The $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act contains $100 billion for hospitals. This post examines key questions about how that money will be used.
Endocrine Society honors endocrinology field’s leaders with 2020 Laureate Awards
The Endocrine Society today announced it has chosen 13 leading endocrinologists as winners of its prestigious 2020 Laureate Awards, the top honors in the field.
Jeffrey Flier
Alternative reality of the day- if not for COVID-19, @Maratosflier would yesterday have received the Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research from the Endocrine Society in SF, to thunderous and well deserved applause. I clapped at home. 👏
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Covid-19 testing: overcoming the challenges
When it comes to Covid-19 testing, who gets tested, along with false positives and false negatives, can distort the picture of the pandemic.
US and J&J commit $1b to coronavirus vaccine codeveloped by Beth Israel - The Boston Globe
Clinical trials are set to start by September, and if all goes well, it could be ready for emergency use early next year.
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Jeffrey Flier
US and J&J commit $1b to coronavirus vaccine codeveloped by Beth Israel - I have followed Dan Barouch since he was an MD PhD student @harvardmed, recruited as junior faculty @BIDMChealth. We depend on great medical scientists like him now.
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Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis
These early estimates give an indication of the fatality ratio across the spectrum
of COVID-19 disease and show a strong age gradient in risk of death.
Med students offered early degree option to help in COVID-19 fight
Harvard Medical School is offering this year’s graduating students the option to receive their diplomas early so that, if they choose, they can be deployed into hospitals to help with COVID-19 patients.
Jeffrey Flier
Med students offered early degree option to help in COVID-19 fight – Harvard Gazette
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Chief executive at Beth Israel Lahey Health taking 50 percent pay cut for three months - The Boston Globe
Dr. Kevin Tabb, the chief executive of Massachusetts’ second-largest hospital system, said Monday that he would give up half his salary amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
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Chief executive at Beth Israel Lahey Health taking 50 percent pay cut for three months- will Boston hospital competition now include a bidding war to lower hypertrophied executive comp? @MassGeneralNews @BrighamWomens @PartnersNews
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It actually may be the end of the world as we know it - The Boston Globe
A handful of business futurists and science-fiction writers were asked what they expect the world to be like after the pandemic starts abating.
Jeffrey Flier
What might the near future hold? Futurists weigh in. Could it be be the end of the world as we know it! @ScottKirsner
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Coronavirus Slowdown in Seattle Suggests Restrictions Are Working
Officials in Washington State worry that their gains are precarious, but they see evidence that containment strategies have lowered the rate of virus transmission.
Voltaire Quotes
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make..." - Voltaire quotes from BrainyQuote.com
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Jeffrey Flier
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" Voltaire. Worth contemplating today. Feel free to RT. HT @MrsPage_
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America’s Make-or-Break Week
Rent, utilities, credit card payments, payroll: The bills are now coming due for big companies, small businesses and millions of laid-off workers. How Americans navigate the next few days will shape how the coronavirus pandemic impacts the economy.
Jeffrey Flier
Coronavirus has shut businesses and pushed millions into unemployment. America’s bills are still due: Rent, credit card, payroll. “The deadline is looming large and it is petrifying.”
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The Nation’s 5,000 Outpatient Surgery Centers Could Help With The COVID-19 Overflow
A coalition of anesthesiologists wants to repurpose the country’s more than 5,000 surgery centers to serve as emergency overflow amid the coronavirus pandemic. The centers have trained medica…
Hospitals Need Cash. Health Insurers Have It.
Coronavirus has delayed non-urgent care, leading to a financial crisis.
Jeffrey Flier
Hospitals Need Cash. Health Insurers Have It. We may need to change the model of insurance payments in light of the pandemic and changes in services that have been required. HT @Paulflevy
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