Read article – Quotes Kendall Hoyt, assistant professor of medicine, in an article that examines the timeline for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Read article – An opinion piece co-authored by Kendall Hoyt, assistant professor of medicine; Susan Athey from Stanford University; and Michael Kermer from Harvard University; in which they discuss the importance of international coordination when it comes to strategies for deploying a COVID-19 vaccine. (Picked up by Gulf Times and China Daily.)

Read article – An opinion piece by Cassie Kosarek, Geisel ’20, in which she discusses what she has learned in her time away from medicine as a split-year student. (Picked up byYahoo! News.)

Read article – Quotes Kendall Hoyt, assistant professor of medicine, in an article about how the COVID-19 pandemic is raising questions about the patent system, pandemic preparedness policy, and the value of a private health sector structurally incapable of prioritizing high-risk, low-probability events. “When researchers have to navigate multiple patents to assemble the knowledge required to develop a vaccine, it slows progress,” says Hoyt. “Because upstream discoveries and tools are blocked by a tangle of IP protections, the current system is not well suited to responding to global public health needs.”

Read article – Quotes David Leib, chair and professor of microbiology and immunology, in an article about what makes the virus so deadly. (Picked up by Yahoo! News.)

Read article – Quotes Elizabeth Talbot, professor of medicine, in an article about how thirteen hospitals in New Hampshire have signed up to receive remdesivir as an experimental drug to treat COVID-19. The treatment has shown to have a small effect in trials.

Read article – Quotes Robert Santulli, honorary associate professor of psychiatry, in a feature story about a new pen pal program called Pine Pals. The program pairs Dartmouth students with senior citizens to be writing companions as stay-at-home orders and physical distancing continue.

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Elliott Fisher, professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about how New England states are partially reopening amid concerns about adequate COVID-19 testing and contact tracing. (Picked up by NECN, Voice of America, and many more. Similar coverage in Concord Monitor.)

Read article – Quotes Elliott Fisher, professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about how New England states are partially reopening amid concerns about adequate COVID-19 testing and contact tracing.

Read article – Quotes Elizabeth Talbot, professor of medicine, in an article about the future of self-serve food bars after many restaurants and supermarkets closed down these services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Talbot, who is the deputy epidemiologist for the state of New Hampshire, said the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is not food-borne. “COVID-19 is transmitted predominantly by the person-to-person route through respiratory droplets,” said Talbot. “If respiratory droplets land on surfaces, then a person can come along and touch a contaminated surface and inoculate themselves within a short period of time after that.”