The Buckeyes have become the latest in a sad, expanding list of colleges, universities, and other institutions to reach big settlements over students’ long sexual abuse by twisted medical staffers, with Ohio State University agreeing to pay $41 million to 162 male athletes for two decades of molestation and mistreatment by a team doctor. After….
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New hospitals may offer hope to D.C.’s poor, minority areas as Covid-19 rages
Even as the Covid-19 pandemic shows the terrible toll inflicted on African Americans in the District of Columbia by health care disparities, city officials have announced they are advancing with a pricey plan to plug a giant hole in area medical services by helping to fund not one but two new hospitals that will serve….
Continue ReadingU.S. botched testing. What about the next steps to fight Covid-19: tracing and isolating?
As state and local officials struggle with constituents restless with measures designed to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, the next key phases in the battle with the novel coronavirus may prove yet more contentious. How ready are we to accept not just testing but also tracing and isolating infections? The White House is bolting to….
Continue ReadingNursing homes across region failed to protect residents from Covid-19’s toll
With nursing home operators bleating up a storm of weak defenses and denials, soaring Covid-19 infections and deaths have laid siege to far too many long-term care facilities in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The consequences have been dire. In Maryland, the Baltimore Sun reported: “Nearly three-fifths of Marylanders killed by the coronavirus….
Continue ReadingBookmark deep digs into what’s next with Covid-19 and its impact on medicine
For those who may have more time on their hands due to the pandemic and who may be seeking deeper digs into Covid-19, excellent long-form coverage is abounding. Consider, for example, taking time for the New Yorker article by Siddhartha Mukherjee, a cancer doctor, biologist, and best-selling nonfiction author who delves into the question of….
Continue ReadingHope and skepticism go hand-in-hand with vital measures in Covid-19 battle
Optimism and realism should not be oppositional characteristics when looking hard at the slowly evolving measures to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. Experts always have said many ways will be needed to battle the novel coronavirus and much attention has focused on a few: effective treatments, a vaccination, as well as testing, testing, testing. There….
Continue ReadingWhen the fringe drives pandemic response, it’s not funny. It’s dangerous.
Even as the nation battles the Covid-19 pandemic, leaders at all levels need to protect our democracy by both allowing appropriate expression of different points of view while also ensuring that extremists do not shove themselves into the center of public policy-making about crucial health concerns. Americans — to their great distaste — have gotten….
Continue ReadingPoliticians seek a 100% immunity in coronavirus — from lawsuits seeking justice
It’s a little hard to fathom but actions speak louder than words: For political partisans, what seems to be scarier than a novel coronavirus that has infected more than 1 million Americans and claimed more lives in a few weeks than years of U.S. involvement in Vietnam? Trial lawyers. Like me. Really? Politico, the news….
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