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Months of Chaos and Systemic Failure Are Wearing Down Health Care Workers An ER tech helps the Mercy Air flight team transport a COVID-positive patient from the ED at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, California on December 22, 2020, in Apple Valley, California. Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images By Nurse Kristen Cline was working a 12-hour shift in October at the Royal C. Johnson Veterans Memorial Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, when a code blue rang through the halls. A patient in an isolation room was dying of a coronavirus that had raged for eight...

COVID-19 timeline: How the pandemic unfolded over 1 year By Stephanie Weaver article A digital sign directs people to the drive-through coronavirus testing area which began on the main campus of Stony Brook University on March 18, 2020. (John Paraskevas/Newsday RM vis Getty Images) LOS ANGELES - 2020 turned the world upside down with a worldwide pandemic. The challenging months brought death, sickness, disruption and scientific exploration to the forefront of our lives, and many call it both the shortest and the longest year in history — and one that will certainly not be forgotten. Decem...

The inside story of how Trump’s denial, mismanagement, and magical thinking led to the pandemic’s dark winter By Yasmeen Abutaleb, Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey and Philip Rucker The Washington Post,Updated December 20, 2020, 12:55 a.m. Email to a Friend White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci listened as President Trump spoke at a coronavirus briefing at the White House on March 20.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post WASHINGTON - As the number of coronavirus cases ticked upward in mid-Nov...

The inside story of how Trump’s denial, mismanagement and magical thinking led to the pandemic’s dark winter Yasmeen Abutaleb, Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Philip Rucker [This story has been optimized for offline reading on our apps. For a richer experience, you can find the full version of this story here. An Internet connection is required.] As the number of coronavirus cases ticked upward in mid-November — worse than the frightening days of spring and ahead of an expected surge after families congregated for Thanksgiving — four doctors on President Trump’s task f...

In the race to identify safe and effective therapeutic treatments for the sickest COVID-19 patients, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense are engaging a non-profit research organization, Quantum Leap Research Collaborative of San Francisco, on a phase 2 clinical trial that rapidly screens multiple potential drugs simultaneously. “Through our Operation Warp Speed partnership, we have worked feverishly with private industry to develop and make treatments available to reduce hospitalization, either shortening the length of stay or treating people with ...