CNN Opinion piece by Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, a primary care pediatrician, and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons.
A quarter of American women under age 65 report splitting pills, skipping doses, or delaying refills because of the cost of prescription medicine compared with one in seven men in the same age range.
“If you can’t clear the virus quickly enough, you’re susceptible to damage from the virus and the immune system,” says Donna Farber, a microbiologist at Columbia.
New genetic and patient analyses suggest severe COVID is linked to overactive complement, one of the immune system’s oldest branches, and excess blood clotting.
Googling for financial issues and disaster help rose sharply early in the COVID-19 pandemic and may portend a future increase in suicides, Columbia researchers found.
