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Hello,
We’ve almost made it to the holiday weekend! I’m looking forward to spending the weekend mentally preparing myself for the sprint that will be a fall full of coronavirus vaccine and treatment updates (not to mention a presidential election).
Today in healthcare news: the colleges with the most coronavirus cases, a telemedicine founder is suing his former company, and Google's work with researchers to track coronavirus symptoms.
The US colleges and universities with the most coronavirus cases since the pandemic began
- Colleges across the US are seeing upticks in coronavirus cases as students and faculty return to campus for the fall semester.
- The University of Alabama, University of South Carolina, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have some of the highest rates of coronavirus to date.
- Business Insider compiled a list of colleges and universities with 100 or more coronavirus cases.
Take a look at the full map and list from Andrea Michelson here >>
Foto: Hitesh Tolani founded and served as the CEO of Virtudent until last October, when he was ousted by two of its directors, according to a lawsuit Tolani filed. Source: Virtudent
The founder of a formerly high-flying telehealth startup is suing his former company, saying it ousted him after he objected to a grow-at-all-costs strategy that 'jeopardized patient health'
- The founder and former CEO of Virtudent, a Boston teledentistry startup, has sued his former company as well as its some of its directors, officers, and investors.
- He says that he was unjustly ousted for pushing back on the directors' grow-at-all-costs strategy.
- Hitesh Tolani launched Virtudent in 2014 as one of the first commercial teledentistry firms; its hygienists conduct exams in corporate offices or other places and then consult with its dentists over the internet.
Read the full story from Troy Wolverton here>>
Foto: Dr. David Feinberg, the head of Google Health Source: Courtesy HLTH
Google is releasing data on how people have been searching for COVID-19 symptoms, in the hope it will help researchers track the virus
- Google is releasing a huge dataset of search trends related to COVID-19 symptoms for researchers and public health authorities.
- The data, which Google promises is completely anonymized, will reveal trends for more than 400 symptoms.
- It hopes the data can be used to track how the virus is spreading.
Read the full story from Hugh Langley here>>
More stories we're reading:
- Some New Orleans hospitals sent coronavirus patients home or to hospice to die, discontinuing treatment (ProPublica)
- The director of the CDC sent letters to governors asking them to be ready to distribute coronavirus vaccines by November 1 (McClatchy)
- Walmart and Oak Street Health are partnering up on clinics in Texas (Healthcare Dive)
- Using steroids in COVID-19 patients dramatically cut the risks of death (Reuters)
I'll be back tomorrow with a Labor Day weekend edition of the newsletter. Reach me at [email protected] in the meantime.
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- Lydia
