Research efforts are laser-focused on finding coronavirus treatments to save the most critically ill. But what about everyone else? A new clinical trial at Stanford University is part of an emerging movement to find COVID-19 medicines that can be given almost immediately after infection, before the virus gains a firm foothold in the body. If…
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Did you miss a day in Statistics class? The COVID-19 pandemic is here to help. In the wake of a startling Stanford report that suggests as many as 81,000 people could already have been infected with coronavirus in Santa Clara County, number nerds are taking to Twitter to debate sampling methods, false positives and Bayesian…
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Overwhelmed by the demands of caregiving, Quette dialed 911 when she found her teenage son downstairs in their kitchen struggling to breathe. He had rolled his wheelchair to the oven to keep himself warm as he tried to regulate his temperature, she recalled, and was drenched in sweat from an apparent infection. In that moment
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Here in Washington, we’ve been hearing about tensions between the White House and one of its most controversial — but, at least in some circles, most popular — figures: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Polling of likely voters indicates that the Health and Human Services secretary can be an asset to Republicans when he’s talking about improving the nation’s food supply or labeling ultraprocessed foods. But when he’s talking about removing recommendations for routine childhood vaccinations, he can be a detriment. So, when I