New York Times (December 13)
With Zero-Covid restrictions lifted, Beijing again “looks like a city in the throes of a lockdown — this time, self-imposed by residents. Sidewalks and pedestrian shopping streets are barren, and once busy traffic thoroughfares are deserted. Residents are hunkering down indoors and hoarding medicine as a wave of Covid sweeps across the Chinese capital.”
Tags: Barren, Beijing, Deserted, Hoarding, Hunkering down, Lockdown, Medicine, Residents, Restrictions, Self-imposed, Shopping streets, Zero COVID
Washington Post (February 26)
We will soon find out whether a global crisis can “unite the planet and encourage everyone to pull together…. This outbreak is manageable with good medicine, good information and global cooperation. But it’s going to be a bumpy ride for a while.”
Tags: Bumpy, Cooperation, Global crisis, Information, Manageable, Medicine, Outbreak, Planet, Unite
Wall Street Journal (April 3)
“It’s fashionable to despair over American progress against cancer, but the reality is that every year medicine makes steady and durable gains…. The mortality rate fell 1.5% a year on average for all cancers from 2002 to 2011, while new cases of cancer dropped 0.5% a year over the same period.”
New York Times (May 11)
“Antibiotics have transformed medicine and saved countless lives over the past seven decades. Now, rampant overuse and the lack of new drugs in the pipeline threatens to undermine their effectiveness.” The last new class of antibiotics emerged in 1987. Today both standard-treatment and last-resort antibiotics often fail due to growing resistance in germs and bacteria.
Tags: Antibiotics, Bacteria, Drugs, Effectiveness, Germs, Lives, Medicine, Overuse, Pipeline, Resistance
