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American Pediatric Intensive Care Units, Their History, And The Covid-19 Stress Test

October 13, 2021

To imagine the pressure felt in American intensive care units over the course of the pandemic, it is perhaps helpful to...

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Lockdown Blues: How Covid’s Delta Variant Popped New Zealand’s Pandemic Bubble

Ben Stanley

August 30, 2021

Two weeks ago, the headlines out of New Zealand were as simple as they were strange. After a single positive case of...

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‘There Is No More Space Here’: Untangling the Chaotic Threads of India’s Covid-19 Crisis

Ben Stanley

May 5, 2021

Amongst the enduring images taken during the Covid-19 global pandemic, few may ultimately match the simple,...

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‘Every Step Forward’: The Role of Med Students in the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

Ben Stanley

January 22, 2021

There are more than 120,000 medical students in the United States. Like most others studying medicine around the world,...

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The Struggles, and Promise, of America’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

Ben Stanley

January 13, 2021

Like more than 222,000 of her fellow Americans, a 75-year-old lung cancer survivor from New Jersey tested positive for...

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A Rocky Rollout: COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution in America

Ben Stanley

December 22, 2020

Last Monday, a 52-year-old woman from New York unrolled her left sleeve, and entered the history books. A nurse at Long...

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Pandemic on the Plains: The COVID-19 Crisis in North and South Dakota

Ben Stanley

December 5, 2020

Earlier this week, North Dakota’s Kailee Leingang spoke to Slate about being a contact tracer in a state where the...

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Hitting the Hay: Covid-19, and Rural Health in America

Ben Stanley

November 19, 2020

Located on the state border with southern New Mexico, Loving County lies deep in the kind of West Texas Cormac McCarthy...

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“A Real Reason to Hope”: The Pfizer News, And Overall Covid-19 Vaccine Update

Ben Stanley

November 11, 2020

Only under the most intense heat and pressure do carbon atoms crystallize. Only then are diamonds formed. From a public...

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All The President’s Pandemics: Wilson, Trump, and How History Repeats

Ben Stanley

October 3, 2020

Since the first novel coronavirus case was reported in the United States on January 20, more than 7.3 million Americans...

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Pandemic Without Peaks: Africa’s Unexpected COVID-19 Experience

Ben Stanley

September 10, 2020

Though Africa’s first COVID-19 case appeared in Egypt on February 14, it didn’t really start making noise around the...

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Why New England’s COVID-19 Response Has Been America’s Best

Ben Stanley

August 28, 2020

As of today, more than 180,000 Americans have died due to COVID-19. An estimated 5.8 million in the United States have...

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Med School in the COVID-19 Era: What To Expect When Classes And Clerkships Restart

Ben Stanley

August 13, 2020

For generations of American doctors-in-training, August has always marked a crucial apex in the greater medical school...

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Beyond COVID-19: Global Diseases That Could Have a Vaccine by 2030

OnlineMedEd

July 28, 2020

When English physician Edward Jenner inoculated the eight-year-old son of his gardener against smallpox in 1796, he...

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Pots, Pans & Vaccine Trials: Brazil’s COVID-19 Response, And Its Role in Finding a Cure

Ben Stanley

July 18, 2020

For more than a week of warm mid-March evenings, the sound of clanging pots and pans echoed out across São Paulo and...

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Stranded in Paradise: How New Zealand Beat COVID-19

Ben Stanley

July 10, 2020

This weekend, the Auckland Blues play the Canterbury Crusaders at Christchurch’s Rugby League Park. A renewal of New...

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COVID-19 Moon Shot: Looking at the Current State of Coronavirus Vaccine Efforts

Ben Stanley

July 4, 2020

On July 21, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. An extraordinary...

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The First Big Wave: Looking Back at the 2002-2004 SARS Outbreak, and the Lessons We Learnt Ahead of COVID-19

Ben Stanley

April 30, 2020

As of May 1, around 3.25 million people worldwide have been infected by the current novel coronavirus. While around one...

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