This post, by Austin Frakt, originally appeared on The Incidental Economist on April 2, 2020. I don’t have time for a fully formed post or column on this, but I want to make note of a few ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is intersecting with drivers of health (which include social determinants and health system factors). Continue reading [...]

By Kate Raphael We understand that social policies have great potential to affect health, but studies that aim to document the associations between policy interventions and health outcomes are often methodologically weak. Association studies are unable to identify the directionality of causal pathways (e.g., do chronically ill people make less money because they are able to Continue reading [...]

We spoke with an attending physician about current hospital working conditions, PPE availability, and medical didactics during the rise of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City. They kindly answered our most pressing questions; in turn, we honored their request to remain anonymous. Continue reading [...]

“We can’t wait until capacity has already been overloaded before requesting extra machines – we have to act now based on the best available data. If we don’t, the surge in COVID-19 patients May result in rationing care and unnecessary deaths.” Continue reading [...]

Global Mental Health Impact Story of the Week – March 25th 2020 Leveraging Mobile Phone Technology to Provide Affordable and Accessible Mental Healthcare in Ghana; the MindIT Mental Health Service Story Continue reading [...]

Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 NEJM | Doremalen et al. | Mar. 17, 2020 The aim of this recent publication was to determine how long SARS-CoV-2 could survive in the air and on various surfaces. The authors compare the length of SARS-CoV-2 survival to SARS-CoV-1 (measured by the amount of Continue reading [...]