by Alex Lawson | Mar 25, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Tony Webster / flickr / cc Editor's update: After Public Citizen, People's Action and 50 other groups demanded Gilead Pharmaceuticals end its claim of "orphan drug" status for remdesivir, a potential treatment for COVID-19, Gilead has asked the FDA to...
by Joy Blackwood, Natasha DeJarnett, Surili Sutaria Patel | Mar 24, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Democracy, Election, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Joint Base San Antonio / cc There’s been a massive failure of leadership in the United States in preparation, containment, treatment and protecting our residents from the cascading effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. As Board members of Physicians for...
by Tom Conway | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Featured, Future of Work, Health
Photo credit: Airman 1st Class Collin Schmidt, U.S. Air Force, cc Kimberly Delbrune-Mitter, a cardiac nurse, cares deeply about her patients and remains steadfast in her desire to help them, even as COVID-19 spreads across America. What plagues her about the new...
by Tobita Chow | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc As the crisis around Covid-19, the novel coronavirus that has sparked a global pandemic, has unfolded sending shockwaves through the U.S. economy, President Trump and his allies wasted no time casting blame on China. On...
by Paul Engler | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Featured, Health, Protest
ACT UP rally, May 21, 1999. Photo credit: NIH History Office There are times in history when sudden events — natural disasters, economic collapses, pandemics, wars, famines — change everything. They change politics, they change economics and they change public opinion...
by Miles Mogulescu | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Featured, Health
Within two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American auto factories were already converting to make tanks instead of cars. The government needs to treat the Covid-19 pandemic like a war - except the enemy is an invisible virus rather than a foreign...