News You Can Use – COVID-19 Response was a Massive Global Failure
By Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick
Twitter: @drnic1
Host of Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist – #TheIncrementalist
This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of September 2022.
As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners.
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We dive into the recently published The Lancet COVID-19 Commission that reviewed the worldwide response to the Pandemic. As Craig puts it the results show we as nations countries had a very poor response to the pandemic.
Click to access covid-19-commission-2022.pdf
Despite some countries having better results and responses worldwide sharing of data and international cooperation remained very poor throughout.
We discuss the status of the latest boosters for COVID19 including the distribution of the bivalent COVID19 vaccine and the flu shot and I describe my experience getting both on the same day. All round a very good experience with little pain and very happy with the results.
Listen in to hear our discussion now what’s old is new again with CVS’s purchase of Signify Health and their desire to bring back the physician house calls.
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About the Show
For years Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick, has served as a voice on the impact of new technologies on healthcare, earning a reputation as a leading authority on where the future of medicine is going. Combining powers of observation and real world experience, Dr. Nick has seen many predictions come true and makes the case that innovations in healthcare can be accomplished incrementally, not just by moonshot events. Tune in to hear Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist and his guests discuss what the future of healthcare looks like, how we will get there, and what it will take to improve healthcare for all.
This article was originally published on the Dr. Nick – The Incrementalist blog and is republished here with permission.
