Hospitals and Healthcare

The Covid-19 epidemic response has shown that the U.S. is blessed with heroic physicians and other health care providers, researchers, and facilities. But it has also revealed a health care system that was woefully unprepared for the surge of pandemic patients. In the authors’ analysis, the primary blame rests on a hospital and insurance financial model geared towards providing high priced services rather than meeting all demands for care, including pandemics. Then they outline a plan for creating a hospital sector that can better respond to the population’s health needs during a time of crisis.

It’s easy to blame COVID. But Australia has suffered medicine shortages for years. The pandemic has only highlighted the problem. Here’s what we could do to better avoid shortages in the first place.

We have the chance to build a world class, dedicated quarantine facility. Here's how we could do it.

Calls to delay the AstraZeneca rollout last week were based on a misunderstanding of our vaccine strategy

A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.

Australian scientists have identified the five types of virus that pose the greatest pandemic threat and have told the federal government to start bolstering its defences.

In 2020, our way of life was turned on its head as the COVID-19 pandemic set in. But as we enter our third year of the pandemic, is there anything history can teach us about these present-day challenges?

Those of us in lockdown may be reaching for the remote more than usual, but this study found 17 creative activities that are better for boosting your mood.

In 1789, a disease tore through communities around Sydney Cove leaving dead bodies scattered along the shorelines. Some think this outbreak was a fire deliberately lit.

And yes, there could soon be another pandemic.

Centuries before coronavirus, plague, smallpox, yellow fever and other contagions killed hundreds of millions around the world.

The coronavirus caught hospitals flat-footed. Now, worried about a resurgence and future infectious diseases, they want to make sure that doesn’t happen again.