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While a single mom in the US gets $1,200 in Covid relief, the GOP plan provides that a millionaire real estate developer gets an average of $1.6 million -- and

So what's the undercount on #covid19 in the US? I worked with @Harvard statistician @rafalab to calculate the excess deaths, and it seems that in the US more than 100,000

President Trump's decision to halt funding for the World Health Organization is a sad effort to find a scapegoat for his own failings. He is now compounding the damage by

I spent 2 days in the "hot zone" in New York hospitals, witnessing needless death and heartache, and heroic, shattered health workers. One doctor spends her days treating patients, holding

The Obama administration’s handling of H1N1 was a model. Prompt response, quick development of a vaccine and then messaging for people to get vaccinated. But Rush Limbaugh and Fox News

The U.S. may lose about 90,000 Americans to Covid-19 because we did not manage the virus as well as South Korea did. The first wave is estimated to take 93,000

Doctors and nurses are the superheroes of our day. My new column looks at how hospitals are punishing and sometimes firing them for speaking up about inadequate personal protective equipment.