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Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time
7 min read · 222 saves · Jul 27th · Derek Thompson · Companies are power scrubbing their way to a false sense of security.
This Algorithm Doesn't Replace Doctors—It Makes Them Better
2 min read · Paywall possible · 155 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.
Some scientists are taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine, and nobody knows if it’s legal or if it…
8 min read · Paywall possible · 51 saves · Jul 29th · Preston Estep was alone in a borrowed laboratory, somewhere in Boston. No big company, no board meetings, no billion-dollar payout from Operation Warp Speed,…
MIT engineers designed an affordable, reusable face mask that's as effective as an N95 — take a…
2 min read · 40 saves · Jul 21st · Cory Stieg · Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have a created a new type of face mask that could be a game-changer for healthcare…
From ‘brain fog’ to heart damage, COVID-19’s lingering problems alarm scientists
~18 min read · Paywall possible · 38 saves · Jul 31st · Some COVID-19 survivors are still sick months later. Doctors want to learn why and what they can do
Covid-19 Data in the US Is an ‘Information Catastrophe’
2 min read · Paywall possible · 32 saves · Jul 30th · The order to reroute CDC hospitalization figures raised accuracy concerns. But that's just one of the problems with how the country collects health data.
Covid-19 data is a public good. The US government must start treating it like one.
3 min read · Paywall possible · 20 saves · Jul 17th · Earlier this week as a pandemic raged across the United States, residents were cut off from the only publicly available source of aggregated data…
How new hospital data reporting rules will affect U.S. Covid-19 response
8 min read · 18 saves · Jul 16th · Public health experts are scrambling to figure out how seriously the new hospital data reporting rules will impact the coronavirus response in the U.S.
A new Rx: AI for operations in health care
Paywall possible · 17 saves · Jul 15th · Hospitals and pharmaceutical companies today are using artificial intelligence to streamline the back office.