While the COVID-19 pandemic has brought evolutionary virology to the forefront, experts say the field could have long-term effects on the practice of medicine.
Modeling showed that nonpharmaceutical interventions against pandemic viral infection maintained during vaccination campaigns can counter the emergence of vaccine-resistant mutations.
Diabetes drugs are being reformulated and renamed as new obesity treatments. Medicare currently doesn’t cover the latter, and private insurers will have to decide if the cost is worth the benefit.
“Pregnant surgeons should not be operating more than 12 hours a week when they are in the third trimester,” one author said. “That is a modifiable risk factor.”
As one of the key government officials relaying information about the pandemic to the public, Fauci is front and center. That often brings with it the risk of scorn, and sometimes serious threats.
Frank Herd 