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Jul 31
School COVID Risk Levels
As the question of how and when to reopen our nation’s schools grows more urgent every day, my colleagues and I developed a new infographic to help schools and parents. It details the risk levels of various normal school activities (riding the bus, eating lunch in the cafeteria, football practice, etc.).
We created this as a public service, so please feel free to tweet, post, email, print, or hang this infographic on your refrigerator. To download the infographic for your own use, click here or here for the Spanish K-12 index.
To check out the original risk index for everyday activities, click here.
Jun 30
COVID-19 Activity Risk Levels
With no clear direction from the federal government on how to handle the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been hard to decide what’s safe and unsafe as states begin to open up. There's no right answer; you just need to know the risks and how much risk you're willing to take. That's why Professor Saskia Popescu, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Arizona, Dr. James P. Phillips, MD, the Chief of Disaster Medicine at GWU Emergency Medicine, and I developed a COVID-19 Risk Index to help you do this, based on four key factors:
1) Enclosed space
2) Duration of interaction
3) Crowds
4) Forceful exhalation
Again, we hope this Risk Index is helpful to you as you decide what you are comfortable doing as these activities become available. We created this as a public service, so please feel free to tweet, post, e-mail, and print and hang this on your refrigerator or around your workplace. You can download the infographic here, or here for the Spanish language version
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Mar 24
Fourteen Days. That's the Most Time We Have to Defeat Coronavirus. (New York Times)
Read the Article. March 24, 2020. New York Times.
Mar 18
The Coronavirus is Here to Stay, SO What Happens Next? (New York Times)
Read the Article. March 17, 2020. The New York Times.
Jan 22
We Protected My Terminally-Ill Father From The System (The Atlantic)
The Atlantic. January 2020. Read the article.
Sep 6 '19
No One Likes Surprise Medical Bills. So Why Does Congressional Action Seem So Unlikely? (Washington Post)
Washington Post. September 2019. Read the article.
Aug 2 '19
Democrats Are Having the Wrong Health Care Debate (New York Times)
Read this article. The New York Times, August 2019.
Apr 23 '19
How the U.S. Surrendered to China on Scientific Research (The Wall Street Journal)
By Ezekiel Emanuel, Amy Gadsden, and Scott Moore
The Wall Street Journal, April 2019
Apr 11 '19
Big Pharma’s Go-To Defense of Soaring Drug Prices Doesn’t Add Up (The Atlantic)
The Atlantic, March 2019
Apr 5 '19
America Has Already Had a Gay President (The Washington Post)
The Washington Post, March 2019
Apr 5 '19
Republicans and Democrats Might Be Able to Make a Deal on Drug Pricing
The Washington Post, November 2018.
Mar 8 '17
How Republicans Plan to Ration Health Care (The New York Times)
Click here to read the article.
Published on March 7, 2017 in the New York Times Opinions section.
May 31 '16
Want to win $2 billion? Create the next antibiotic. (Washington Post)
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May 30, 2016 - Washington Post
Jul 8 '15
The Coming Shock in Health-Care Cost Increases (The Wall Street Journal)
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The Wall Street Journal, July 7 2015