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New top story from Time: We Must Use This Moment to Improve Diversity in Clinical Trials — And Not Just for Vaccines
Long before I became a healthcare executive, I began my medical career on a different side of the stethoscope. As a practicing doctor in Madrid, I learned firsthand the value of treating all patients with empathy, dignity, and individualized care. Throughout my career, I’ve always focused on [...]
New top story from Time: The World Food Program Won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. Here’s How the Pandemic Has Made Its Work Even More Essential
The U.N.’s World Food Program was awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, with the Norwegian Nobel Committee praising the agency’s “impressive ability to intensify its efforts” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The WFP is the world’s largest [...]
New top story from Time: The U.S. Spent Billions of Dollars on Biodefense. COVID-19 Was the Attack it Never Saw Coming
Atop high-rise government buildings and inside critical military installations across the country, you’ll find high-tech sensor systems installed to sniff the air in search of any hint of dangerous bacteria, viruses or toxins that might be dispersed in an airborne attack. The detection devices, part of a multi-faceted $100 billion federal effort to bolster the nation’s biological defenses, were installed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
None of them, however, saw the coronavirus coming. Despite the piles of money, gee-whiz gadgetry and high-minded strategy that’s been thrown at the biodefense effort in the last 20 years, officials in the highest reaches of the U.S. government and military have found themselves hobbled by a deadly disease that has been passed around at federal locations with the highest security protocols. It’s a plot line that America’s adversaries could only dream of — and a red flag that U.S. government and military remain vulnerable to biological threats, whether they are natural, accidental or intentional.
The Pentagon confirmed Wednesday that Gen. Gary Thomas, the Marine Corps’ No. 2 officer, became the second four-star [...]
New top story from Time: She Was Racially Abused by Hospital Staff as She Lay Dying. Now a Canadian Indigenous Woman’s Death Is Forcing a Reckoning on Racism
New top story from Time: How Old-Fashioned Letter-Writing Became 2020’s Campaign Innovation
New top story from Time: Democrats and Republicans Aren’t Watching the Same Pandemic
This week’s vice presidential debate was a face off not only between Vice President President Mike Pence and California Senator Kamala Harris, but a head-to-head matchup of two ways of understanding the United States’ [...]
New top story from Time: Angelina Jolie: How the Pandemic Is Hurting Women in a World That Already Didn’t Care About Them
The UN Secretary General’s latest report on COVID-19 contains a chilling statement: “gains on gender equality risk [...]
New top story from Time: ‘It’s a Game for Them.’ Scientists Around the World Are Teaching Dogs to Sniff Out COVID-19
Steve Lindsay, a public health entomologist at Durham University, is midway through explaining how dogs might play a role in detecting COVID-19 infections when a decidedly less-well trained canine interrupts our conversation.
“If you’ll excuse me for a minute, I’ve got a naughty black [...]
New top story from Time: COVID-19 Outbreaks Are Now Emerging in Refugee Camps. Why Did it Take so Long For the Virus to Reach Them?
For a number of months, the world’s largest refugee camps appeared to have been spared the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. But human rights groups now say COVID-19 infection rates are on the rise in the temporary settlements that house millions of the world’s [...]