When it comes to Covid, the United States specializes in denialism. Deny the human-to-human transmission of the virus when China’s first cases were publicized in…
Eric TopolMarch 16, 2022
American COVID-19 pandemic with fewer than 12,000 new cases a day and a total of 15,000 patients in the hospital. There was a declaration of independence from the…
Eric TopolFebruary 21, 2022
The term ‘fully vaccinated’ needs to be redefined. It’s time for the United States and the CDC to see natural immunity as a partial path…
Eric TopolFebruary 20, 2022
As the Biden administration took office last January, with the pandemic peaking at more than 130,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States, there were high…
Eric TopolJanuary 18, 2022
The holidays should be a time for getting together with friends and family, but instead we have a double dose of coronavirus strains — Delta…
Eric TopolDecember 16, 2021
Masks, vaccines, boosters, rapid tests and anti-Covid pills will all be essential in the months ahead. ast week, we learned from virus sequencing and rapid…
Eric TopolDecember 1, 2021
The US thinks it will be ‘immune’ to what is happening in Europe. That’s wishful thinking. It’s deja vu, yet again. The pandemic first hit…
Eric TopolNovember 12, 2021
The lack of data around breakthrough infections is giving many Americans a false sense of security. The Delta variant was first identified in the United…
Eric TopolAugust 9, 2021
Here’s a paradox: A new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, aducanumab, gets approved by the Food and Drug Administration through an accelerated process without sufficient data, although there…
Eric TopolJuly 1, 2021
