The U.S. gets a D- in the coronavirus fight. That stands for ‘disorganization,’ and it’s fixable
What’s missing in our #coronavirus response is an appreciation of the value of data, and humanity’s mastery of it, as the one weapon we have against an out-of-control virus.
NEW YORK — Leora Horwitz has seen other disasters. Now the director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science at New York University Langone Medical Center, she was a resident in a New York intensive care unit on Sept. 11, 2001, and chief resident during the blackout two years later. But working in the hospital to fight the novel coronavirus that has stopped the U.S. economy is like nothing she has ever experienced.
Normally transferring a single patient to the intensive care unit, or watching one die, is enough to ruin her week. Now, she is transferring one patient in five.
