HealthIT Answers September 21, 2020
By Anish Mahajan, MD, MS, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and LANES Chair of the Board
We’re all well aware of the unprecedented historical significance of the global public health situation managing the coronavirus pandemic. Approximately 21.2 million cases are confirmed globally, and of those, 5.4 million cases are present in the United States at the time of this writing, with many states reaching new seven-day rolling average highs for newly reported cases.
We’ve all had to shift our behaviors in how we do things ─ including changing the way we live and work.
However, until sufficient evidenced-based treatments have undergone the legit vetting processes coupled with a commercially safe coronavirus vaccine for COVID-19 endorsed by the medical...