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Health Affairs: How The Rapid Shift To Telehealth Leaves Many Community Health Centers Behind During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Reorienting the goals for implementing telehealth, policy makers, payers, and providers can empower health centers to thrive into the future and meet the nation’s underserved patients where they are

The Hill: Primary care doctors could be COVID-19’s next victims

Drs. Dan Schwarz and Tom Frieden on primary care during COVID-19 and the need to protect and support primary care practices nationwide.

New York Times: The Country Is Reopening. My Patients Are Still Suffering.

Dr. Daniela Lamas writes an op-ed about COVID-19’s impact on the most vulnerable among us.

Boston Globe: Wearing a face mask with a valve? It might be time to find something else, some experts say

Dr. Atul Gawande is quoted in this Boston Globe article on the dangers of wearing a face mask with a valve.

Advisory Board: 5 strategies to safely reopen America, according to Atul Gawande

An overview of Dr. Atul Gawande’s latest New Yorker piece on the five strategies to safely reopen America.

FierceHealthcare: Industry Voices—COVID-19 intersects with the maternal health crisis and the opioid epidemic

Katie Barrett on how other health emergencies have largely been forgotten, despite the unfortunate reality that they are being exacerbated by the new crisis

WBUR: How The Pandemic Could Help Our Deadly Fight Against Stress

A commentary by Dr. Dan Henderson on the rare opportunity to recognize stress as a health problem worth treating, now and after COVID-19.

The New Yorker: How to Social-Distance as America Opens Back Up

Dr. Asaf Bitton discusses the risks of socializing indoors, the problem of public bathrooms, and why doctors have changed the way they think about masks.

Harvard Business Review: The Danger of Vaccine Nationalism

Drs. Rebecca Weintraub & Asaf Bitton on the importance of effectively and equitably distributing a COVID-19 vaccine once developed.

Crowdsourcing Against Coronavirus: The COVID Translate Project’s Mission to Spread Knowledge Worldwide

By Ruby Kwak In late March 2020, as COVID-19 infection rates climbed rapidly in the United States, Dr. KJ Seung of Partners in Health — a global health NGO based in Boston — reached out to his brother, Professor Sebastian Seung, a neuroscience and computer science professor, at Princeton University, with an unusual request for… Continue reading Crowdsourcing Against Coronavirus: The COVID Translate Project’s Mission to Spread Knowledge Worldwide