A trend has emerged of evidently softhearted ransomware gangs swearing off hospitals during the COVID crisis.

This week NPR has posted three interactive infographics that health execs may find especially valuable as COVID-19 surges in spots across the U.S. and around the world.

As is so often the case with COVID-19, the numbers sketch out a dauntingly vast landscape while the anecdotes paint portraits of affected human denizens.

Hospitals that have failed to impress patients with COVID safety and quality measures should not be surprised when 2 of 3 patients switch provider orgs—or when 1 in 4 postpone a scheduled procedure indefinitely.

Researchers have demonstrated a machine learning model that can rule out COVID-19 in many emergency patients—and all the algorithm needs is data from routine ER blood tests.

With emergency-use applications for two COVID vaccines in the FDA’s hands, the public square is buzzing over who should get inoculated first.

Early on in the COVID crisis, many hospital-based healthcare workers moved around to serve in COVID hotspots hurting for staff. They did so at scale and at will. Those were the good old days.

The hospital many consider the best prepared in the U.S. to handle a pandemic prior to the COVID crisis now finds itself “on an absolutely catastrophic path.”