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The Difficulty Of Counting the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Full Death Toll

TIME Magazine

Jun 22, 2020
Sara Wittner (left) and her sister Grace Sekera on Sekera’s wedding day. Wittner began using narcotics again after the COVID-19 pandemic dismantled elements of her sobriety support system.
“You have some stakeholders who want to downplay things and make it sound like we’ve had a wonderful response, it all worked beautifully,” says Center Director Dr. Matthew Wynia, who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee studying the issue. “And you’ve got others who say, ‘No, no, no. Look at all the people who were harmed.’”  Read article>>



Thousands Volunteer To Be Infected With Coronavirus To Possibly Speed Up Vaccine

CBS4 News Denver

Jun 16, 2020
Gavriel Kleinwaks
CU Boulder graduate student Gavriel Kleinwaks is one of nearly 29,000 people who have signed up to be willingly infected with the coronavirus. It’s an effort to speed up the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.  CBH faculty Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD questions if it's ethical to infect people with a potentially lethal virus with no reliable treatment. "As coronavirus transmission rates decline, a challenge trial is a harder sell."  Full story>>

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