Read article – Cites comments by Kendall Hoyt, assistant professor of medicine, in an article about how not all public health experts are on board with President Donald Trump’s plans to fast-track vaccine development, a project dubbed Operation Warp Speed.

Read article – Quotes James Weinstein, the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor Emeritus, in an article about how the COVID-19 pandemic has fast-tracked patient-centric changes in medicine. “Public health has been underrepresented in the tech space,” says Weinstein, who currently works as the senior vice president for Microsoft Healthcare. “Technology is fantastic, but if we can’t talk to each other, we can’t communicate the appropriate data.”

Read article – A news brief announcing that David Green, clinical associate professor of surgery, joined the Concord Regional VNA board of trustees. Green recently retired as senior vice president and chief medical officer of Concord Hospital.

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.