The Lancet Commission described the former president’s COVID-19 response as “inept and insufficient” and advocated for a single-payer health system.
Author: Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY
‘Hard truths and important facts’: Biden pushes for testing reset with $50 billion plan
Biden’s $50 billion coronavirus testing fix calls for a new federal testing board, more supplies, rapid tests and better technology to fill gaps
Toilet paper, patio heaters and surgical gloves: Amazon vendors hiked prices on pandemic items, report says
New report found 409 of 750 ‘essential’ pandemic products sold by Amazon vendors saw price hikes of more than 20% over the past year.
‘Momentous event’: HHS Secretary Alex Azar touts COVID-19 vaccine as a key to US herd immunity
Hospitals nationwide began immunizing health care workers Monday after the FDA’s authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
‘A very, very dark place’: Hospitals brace for crisis-care mode with too many patients, not enough staff
Hospital ICUs are filled with a record number of critically ill Americans with COVID-19, and there’s no relief in sight.
The demand for COVID-19 testing is up across the US, stressing labs and delaying results. Is it a sign of things to come?
Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp said higher COVID-19 testing demand across the U.S. means results will take longer, possibly up to three days.
Fast, cheap, accurate: Researchers pin hopes on Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR-technology tests to detect coronavirus
UC Berkeley’s Nobel Prize winner and MIT researchers employ gene-editing technology to develop rapid COVID-19 virus tests.
Antibody tests were supposed to help guide US reopening plans. They’ve brought more confusion than clarity amid coronavirus.
A lack of evidence has complicated hope COVID-19 antibody tests will provide quick answers about immunity and when social distancing orders can relax.
‘Medication I can’t live without’: Lupus patients are struggling to get hydroxychloroquine diverted for COVID-19
Lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients struggle to fill prescriptions as COVID-19 triggers a shortage of hydroxychloroquine.
Labs are testing 100,000 people each day for the coronavirus. That’s still not enough.
Public and private labs now complete more than 100,000 COVID-19 tests each day. Still, many are denied tests and labs struggle with a growing backlog.