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April 2021
Context: Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, between February 23 and March 8, 2020, some areas of Italy were declared “red zones,” with citizens… More
After more than a decade of promise and hype, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are finally making inroads into clinical… More
March 2021
A crisis forces us back to the questions themselves and requires from us either new or old answers, but in any case direct judgment. A crisis becomes… More
The United States finds itself amid three concurrent and interrelated crises. First, at the time of writing, the United States has reported more than… More
The pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated health inequities in both acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its longer-term sequelae.… More
Context: The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted significant barriers in the exchange of essential information between… More
Since the launch of the Quarterly’s Building Back Better series of policy opinion posts in November 2020, the United States has experienced one of… More
Context: The relative performance of teaching hospitals has been discussed for decades. For private and public insurers with provider networks, an… More
Context: Prescription drug spending per capita in the United States is higher than in most other industrialized countries. Policymakers seeking to… More
Context: Significant effort has been directed toward developing a COVID-19 vaccine, which is viewed as the route out of the pandemic. Much of this… More