Op-ed: Let hospitals, not politicians, triage care during the latest COVID-19 surge
The doctor-patient relationship starts at birth and extends across one's life. When patients are honest with their doctors, better decisions can be made about their health. They expect the same honesty in return and, indeed, the Hippocratic Oath demands as much of physicians. Underscoring this important responsibility, throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, national polls have found that most Americans trust medical professionals to give them accurate information about the virus.
President Biden’s plan to make 500 million at-home test kits available at no cost later this month sounds great — but does not go far enough. Moreover, widespread use of at-home tests requires a shift in how to track the virus and its impact on communities.
That’s been the cry of the food industry, if not the nation and world as a whole, during the pandemic. Now, as Covid stubbornly lingers, that cry has shifted to a new set of problems with the supply chain, labor and inflation.
A new study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign identifies the optimal conditions to reduce the risk of COVID transmission on airplanes.
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