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Does Paxlovid help people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19? Show us the data!

By Paul Fenyves

Pfizer via AP

Paxlovid was given the green light based on a trial that included only unvaccinated, Covid-naive people. That's a minority of Americans.

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Hopelessness around youth mental health is creating a 'nihilistic contagion'

By Steven C. Schlozman

Adobe

Hopelessness is a major feature of the mental health emergency among youths. Things won't get better without turning around this pessimism.

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Listen: The faces of Covid at 1 million deaths and counting

By Patrick Skerrett

Since March 2020, the @FacesOfCovid Twitter feed has memorialized more than 7,000 Americans who died because of the pandemic.

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Omitting long Covid from pandemic messaging is harmful for public health

By Danielle Wenner and Gabriela Arguedas Ramírez

Adobe

Public health narratives neglect long Covid, leading those with symptoms to be discounted, marginalized, and subject to other harms.

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One million reasons to reimagine end-of-life care

By Shoshana Ungerleider

Adobe

The multitude of "bad" deaths from Covid-19 should renew conversations about improving end-of-life care to aid more "good" deaths.

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Take a stand for those who can't with the Promising Pathway Act

By Brian Wallach and Mike Braun

Adobe

The Promising Pathway Act, crafted with patient input, gives people with life-threatening illnesses timely access to innovative treatments.

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NEJM, other journals: provide more transparency about conflicts of interest or don't publish conflicted articles

By Martin F. Shapiro and Sidney M. Wolfe

Adobe

The New England Journal of Medicine and other journals must make conflicts of interest more transparent to readers, or not publish articles.

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Russian aggression underscores the U.S.'s need for greater investment in medical countermeasures

By Joe Lieberman and Michelle McMurry-Heath

Adobe

The U.S. mustn't delay significant investment in innovative chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear medical countermeasures.

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To improve safety, hospitals should make 'radical transparency' real — and accessible

By Michael L. Millenson and J. Matthew Austin

Misha Friedman/Getty Images

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs can help hospitals and health systems better communicate safety information to the public.

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