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During the first two to three weeks of the pandemic in 2020, I was involved in a lot of meetings about the current status and future plans for the impending surge of COVID-19 patients we were anticipating. It was during that time we witnessed COVID-19 ravaging cities like New York City. In one of the […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed health care as we know it. It has sowed fear and doubt among the public and created endless questions without answers. Our hospitalized patients may wonder why they can’t have their families beside them and worry about contracting the virus in the hospital. Strict visitation policies only add to their […]

This article is part of a series in The Hospital Leader written by members of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas in Austin, exploring lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic and outlining an approach for creating COVID-19 Centers of Excellence. During the early months of the COVID-19 […]

Leading Pandemic Voices Dr. Bob Wachter and Dr. Ashish Jha Share Views at The Doctors Company Virtual Executive Advisory Board Meeting Renowned physician experts Robert M. Wachter, MD, and Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, took stock of how the U.S. is faring in the COVID-19 pandemic during a virtual meeting hosted by the TDC Group […]

This article is part of a series in The Hospital Leader written by members of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas in Austin, exploring lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic and outlining an approach for creating COVID-19 Centers of Excellence. Patients dying without their loved ones, families […]

“The practical effectiveness of consumer-grade masks available to the public is, in many cases, comparable with or better than their non-N95 respirator medical mask counterparts.” The above surprised me. I wanted to pass along the results of the study behind this quote because the outcomes are not only relevant to us and the advice we give […]