Nicole Wetsman

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Health care’s huge cybersecurity problem

The patient lying on the emergency room table in front of Paul Pugsley was having a stroke. Time was running out. Pugsley, an emergency medicine resident at Maricopa Medical Center, knew he needed to send the patient for a CT scan. But when Pugsley…

Jan. 16, 2021

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CES showed off the COVID-19 mask gimmick arms race

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Millions of people in the US started buying face masks in 2020, and companies, unsurprisingly, rushed to take advantage of the surge of demand for a new product. At CES 2021, the gadget-ification of the mask…

Jan. 15, 2021

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Zocdoc offers COVID-19 vaccine scheduler to health care organizations

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Medical appointment company Zocdoc is offering to handle COVID-19 vaccine scheduling logistics for hospitals and health systems, many of which have spent the early days of the vaccine rollout struggling to handle…

Jan. 12, 2021

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US to require negative test from international travelers

Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images Anyone traveling to the United States on an international flight will have to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test within three days before the trip, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday.…

Jan. 12, 2021

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Older adults struggle to access COVID-19 vaccine appointment websites

Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP via Getty Images Buggy websites and complex online tools are being used to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments across the United States. The systems are hard to navigate for many people, but they’re particularly…

Jan. 5, 2021

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FDA tells US health providers not to modify COVID-19 vaccine dose schedule

Photo by Thomas Krych/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Health care providers in the United States should stick to the two-dose schedule for both authorized COVID-19 vaccines, the Food and Drug Administration said in a statement this week.…

Jan. 4, 2021

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Florida counties use Eventbrite to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments

Photo by Paul Hennessy / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Health departments in many Florida counties are using event management website Eventbrite to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments for the public. Officials told The Verge that the…

Dec. 30, 2020

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A quirk of COVID-19 tests can track the new coronavirus variant

Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images Health officials in the United States may be able to use a fluke of COVID-19 testing to monitor the spread of a more contagious form of the virus, which was identified in the country for the first time this week.…

Dec. 28, 2020

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Go read this New Yorker report on the failed response to COVID-19 in the US

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge There are three moments this year that determined the scale of the COVID-19 catastrophe in the United States, argues New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright in a sweeping, searing look at the country’s year…

Dec. 25, 2020

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US requires negative coronavirus test from UK travelers

Photo by Joseph Okpako/Getty Images Anyone flying into the United States from the United Kingdom will have to test negative for COVID-19 within 72 hours before their flight, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday. The…

Dec. 23, 2020

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Monitoring COVID-19 vaccine safety means sorting signal from noise

Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images With the launch of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, officials expect to see a surge in the number of potential bad vaccine reactions. Their job will be to find out how real those reactions are —…

Dec. 23, 2020

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The CDC says the top global health story of 2020 was mosquitoes

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Like they do every December, websites across the internet are rounding up their best posts and stories from the year. That includes the website for the Center for Global Health at the Centers for Disease…

Dec. 20, 2020

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Frontline essential workers and the elderly next in line for COVID-19 vaccinations in US

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Frontline essential workers and people 75 years of age and older in the United States should get COVID-19 vaccines in the next wave of immunizations, an independent committee at the Centers for Disease Control…

Dec. 19, 2020

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Moderna COVID-19 vaccine second to get FDA sign-off in US

Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration authorized the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna, which joins the Pfizer and BioNTech product as the second shot available for use in the United States. The…

Dec. 17, 2020

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Moderna vaccine gets sign-off from independent FDA committee

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images An independent committee of experts recommended that the Food and Drug Administration authorize the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 and older. This is the second…

Dec. 17, 2020

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COVID-19 vaccine monitoring program limited to English speakers

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images A text message program designed to track side effects in COVID-19 vaccine recipients is currently only available in English, which could limit the data it is able to collect. The program, called v-safe, is one way the…

Dec. 15, 2020

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Most doses of a COVID-19 treatment are going unused

The majority of the doses of COVID-19 antibody drugs sent to states have not been used, Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed, the US government’s coronavirus vaccine effort, told CNBC. Around 65,000 doses of the drugs, which can help protect…

Dec. 15, 2020

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The pandemic ruined time

I’m told that March lasted 31 days this year, just like it did last year. Each of those days supposedly had 24 hours, like every other day this year, and those hours each held the same number of minutes. The seconds allegedly ticked by, methodically,…

Dec. 14, 2020

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The Apple Watch expands its range of cardio fitness measurements

Apple is expanding the range of cardiorespiratory fitness that can be measured on the Apple Watch. Starting today, the Health app will classify users as having “high,” “above average,” “below average,” or “low” cardio fitness. Low levels will trigger…

Dec. 14, 2020

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Health care workers in US start receiving COVID-19 vaccines

Photo by Mark Lennihan / POOL / AFP via Getty Images Just after 9AM on Monday, Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse in Queens, New York, was vaccinated against COVID-19. Lindsay was one of the first people in the United States to get a dose of the…

Dec. 13, 2020

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Which celebrity should be the face of the COVID-19 vaccine?

Photo by Seymour Wally/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images In 1956, Elvis Presley got a polio vaccination on the Ed Sullivan Show. The shot was newly available and highly effective — but too few teenagers and young adults were getting vaccinated,…