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Burnout among health care workers affects us all. STAT hosts "The Exhaustion Epidemic" on Monday at 1:00 pm (ET) to explore the problem and possible solutions. You can learn more and register here. Then come on back and check out this week's First Opinion essays on blankets and health care woes, the cancer moonshot 2.0, and much, much more. Mrs. J wanted a blanket in the emergency department. Saying no chips away at my soul By Jay Baruch Mario Tama/Getty Images Denying a blanket to a patient waiting to be seen in a cold emergency department says something very sad about health care. Read More Cancer moonshot 2.0: A missed opportunity for prevention By Nicholas Freudenberg AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana To "end cancer as we know it" will require strategic investments in prevention and screening, which are notably absent from Moonshot 2.0. Read More The Karikó problem: Lessons for funding basic research By Stuart Buck Adobe It's easy in retrospect to spot groundbreaking scientists like Katalin Karikó. How do we find those today don't yet look like "visionaries"? Read More High-risk individuals should get priority access to Covid therapies. That isn't happening By Caroline Behr and Michael L. Barnett Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff People at high risk of developing severe Covid-19 symptoms should have high priority for getting monoclonal antibodies. That isn't happening. Read More Want to improve trust in U.S. public health agencies? Start with a new mantra By Evan J. Zimmerman Adobe "Be first, be right, be credible" is the wrong mantra for public health communication. It should be "Be right, be fast, be clear." Read More The hospital of the future won't be what you expect By Rob Rohatsch Daniel Cole/AP Radical changes afoot will lead to hospital-quality care being administered in primary and urgent care centers and in people's homes. Read More Recovery community organizations need more than bake sales to help people survive addiction By Ryan Hampton and William Stauffer Ted S. Warren/AP Recovery community organizations are key drivers of the recovery movement yet rarely get credit — or funding — for the work they do. Read More Primary care clinicians are the glue to health and wellness. Their shortage spells trouble By Deborah Cohen Adam Berry/Getty Images Two supply chain problems — the dwindling pipeline of primary care clinicians and poor support for primary care — threaten U.S. health care. Read More What's next for digital mental health companies? By Thomas R. Insel Adobe Digital mental health start-ups have economic value. But it is too soon to tell if that will be matched by their clinical impact and value. Read More Hospitals' cash prices for services offer a new look at health care pricing By Jackson Williams Adobe In the murky health-care marketplace, the cash prices some hospitals list for services is almost always lower than insurer-negotiated prices. Read More Sunday, February 6, 2022       1 Exchange Pl, Suite 201, Boston, MA 02109 ©2022, All Rights Reserved. I no longer wish to receive STAT emails Update Email Preferences | Contact Us | View In Browser