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But a new study published in the journal  Clinical Infectious Diseases suggests that the coronavirus, known officially as SARS-CoV-2, may have infected people in the U.S. as early as Dec. 2019. Researchers analyzed blood donations collected by the American Red Cross from residents in nine states. They found evidence of coronavirus antibodies in 106 out of 7,389 blood donations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed blood that was collected between Dec. 13 and Jan. 17. “The presence of antibodies in a person’s blood means they were exposed to a virus and their body’s ...

A lead author, Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, Chief Quality and Clinical Transformation Officer at University Hospitals and Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, developed the concept of "defects in value." He and co-first author John W. Urwin, MD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, wrote their model "offers a hopeful path forward for improving value in health care." Using the success achieved at University Ho...