9 Best Articles in 2020
The Washington Post
Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying from strokes
The Washington Post
5 min read · 609 saves · Apr 24th · Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead by strokes. Some didn’t even know they were infected by…
The Atlantic
Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time
The Atlantic
7 min read · 308 saves · Jul 27th · Derek Thompson · Companies are power scrubbing their way to a false sense of security.
MIT Technology Review
Google’s medical AI was super accurate in a lab. Real life was a different story.
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · 237 saves · Apr 27th · If AI is really going to make a difference to patients we need to know how it works when real humans get their hands…
MIT Technology Review
The coronavirus pandemic is a game changer for mental health care
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · 174 saves · Mar 20th · Regulatory changes and anxiety heightened by isolation are leading to a boom in use of mental health apps and teletherapy—but are they good enough?
WIRED
This Algorithm Doesn't Replace Doctors—It Makes Them Better
WIRED
2 min read · 166 saves · Jul 17th · Tom Simonite · An artificial intelligence system has outperformed physicians when detecting skin lesions. The results are changing how one school trains dermatologists.
The New York Times
The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus
The New York Times
10 min read · 161 saves · Jul 5th · New federal data provides the most comprehensive view to date of how Black and Latino people have been likelier than their white peers to…
The New York Times
How the World Missed Covid-19’s Silent Spread
The New York Times
20+ min read · 148 saves · Jun 27th · Symptomless transmission makes the coronavirus far harder to fight. But health officials dismissed the risk for months, pushing misleading and contradictory claims in the…
Science Magazine
From ‘brain fog’ to heart damage, COVID-19’s lingering problems alarm scientists
Science Magazine
~18 min read · 146 saves · Jul 31st · Some COVID-19 survivors are still sick months later. Doctors want to learn why and what they can do
The New York Times
It Started as a Tax Cut. Now It Could Change American Life.
The New York Times
9 min read · 139 saves · From 2017 · An overhaul championed by President Trump and Republican leaders could reshape health care, education and social services.
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The inside story of how Trump’s COVID-19 coordinator undermined the world’s top health agency
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~17 min read · 42 saves · Oct 14th · How physician Deborah Birx’s unreasonable demands for hospital data created a “debacle” at CDC
The New York Times
Antibody Treatments, Though Promising, Will Be in Short Supply
The New York Times
7 min read · 39 saves · Oct 20th · Katie Thomas · All the weak points of American health care — testing delays, communication breakdowns, inequity — are working against this potential treatment.
STAT
How software infuses racism into U.S. health care
STAT
~15 min read · 38 saves · Oct 13th · The use of analytics software to target medical services to patients who need them most is infusing racial bias into health care decisions.
The Wall Street Journal
These Doctors Have Long-Term Covid. Now They’re Pushing for Better Care.
The Wall Street Journal
5 min read · 12 saves · Oct 20th · Physicians hit hard by Covid are turning to support groups and calling attention to the illness’s long-term effects; ‘this has absolutely changed my perspective.’
