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April 23, 2020
** We Must Test, and Do It Differently, to Re-open the Nation
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This week at “Re-Opening the Nation: What Values Should Guide Us?” -- an online Hastings Conversation, experts said the Covid-19 pandemic posed two interconnected existential threats: to our health and to our economy, both of which require that we dramatically gear up on a war-like footing to contain the virus. Massively ramped up testing is the key–at a rate of 2 million per day, according to Danielle Allen, director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics; Ezekiel Emanuel, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania who is a Hastings Center fellow; and Mildred Solomon, president of The Hastings Center. What’s more, the panelists said, the current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, which call for testing those with symptoms, are wrong-headed. We must test the asymptomatic in order to identify those who are spreading it and ask them to isolate themselves. More than 1,400 people from around the world watched The Hastings Center event live
and posed questions to the panelists. The discussion also addressed guarding the privacy of data from testing and contact tracing, and values such as solidarity in addressing the outsized harms that people of color, hourly workers, and frontline health care providers are experiencing. Watch the video ([link removed]) .
** Five Physicians Honored for Outstanding End-of-Life Care
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In this period of global struggle as health care professionals are putting their lives on the line, we are pleased to honor five exemplary physicians who specialize in care of patients near the end of life. It seems particularly important to continue this tradition during the coronavirus pandemic. The Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards honor physicians for their outstanding contributions in one or more of four areas: medical practice, teaching, research, and community. Awards in the amount of $25,000 each are made to one senior and one mid-career physician, and three additional awards in the amount of $15,000 are given to early-career physicians. To meet this year’s honorees, read more ([link removed]) .
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