Omicron: America wasn't ready despite warnings when new variant hit
Global health experts warned for months that unless we got the whole world vaccinated, variants would emerge that eluded prior immunity.
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Global health experts warned for months that unless we got the whole world vaccinated, variants would emerge that eluded prior immunity.
In the early going of the Revolutionary War, George Washington had a communicable disease problem. Smallpox was killing his army with greater efficiency than the British.
Patriotic Americans protect personal liberties preserved in the Bill of Rights. When citizens’ freedoms are pushed to the extreme, however, such tactics produce “hyper-individualism,” warns columnist David Brooks. “Hyper-individualism defines freedom as absence from restraint,”…
Dr. David Oshinsky, a top medical historian told me recently that he expects this pandemic to be most remembered not in terms of the politics that have divided us, but instead in terms of the incredible advances in biotechnology that have saved us.
When a private-equity firm bought a Philadelphia institution, the most vulnerable patients bore the cost.