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He saved millions of lives from HIV. Now he's working on coronavirus Good read from Robert Langreth and @susanberfield on Businessweek's cover this week bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Young adults may feel invincible when it comes to coronavirus. They're not. New data from CDC's weekly report, plus data from Europe and China shows the risk is real. Bonus: first story with @angelicalavito! bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

Feeling more confident knowing that David Ho Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, world's leading #AIDS researcher, is racing to find a #coronavirus treatment. Great profile via Robert Langreth @susanberfield Businessweek #covid19 bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Businessweek

David Ho pioneered breakthrough AIDS treatments. Now he reset his lab with a radical new idea for finding a coronavirus cure. Susan Berfield Robert Langreth bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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Abbott's rapid coronavirus test, which is used by the White House, looks like it might not work that well bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Misadventures in quarantine: Boyfriend goes out to buy beans. “But we *have* beans!” I protest. Turns out the cans weren’t in the cabinet...because they were in the other room...being used as improvised weights.

Wondering about how to invest in the future of vaccines? Join me, Eric Balchunas and Robert Langreth at 12p ET on Bloomberg Wealth for a Twitter Spaces conversation about how to think about this growing market.

If you read one long read this week, it should be this story from one of my favorite writers, Drake Bennett. It's all about Cobalt, which is way more fascinating than you might expect! bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Happy Thanksgiving. Please enjoy the artistry of my mom’s cookies.

Haze Fan, a member of Bloomberg's Beijing bureau, is still detained in China one year on, with no information forthcoming on her case trib.al/DoJig3y

“It was a mix of medical caution and political naiveté that manifested itself in hypervigilance,” says Beverly Winikoff president of Gynuity Health Projects in this Businessweek article on #mifepristone by Cynthia Koons Plan C Dr. Daniel Grossman ANSIRH >>>

The pandemic isn't over, but many aspects of pandemic life are. Searching for a phrase to describe life right now, I've been calling it the "late pandemic" era

Great interview with Crispr pioneer Jennifer Doudna on gene-edited babies Angelica Peebles bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

What if you could take a pill not just for obesity, but for more modest weight loss. AstraZeneca is envisioning a market just like that: My story with Robert Langreth bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

AstraZeneca's Chief Executive Officer Pascal Soriot envisions his company bringing more affordable drugs to people who need to lose a modest amount of weight for health reasons but don’t necessarily have obesity

If it works, “we will price it at a level that will democratize weight loss,” he said in an interview at Bloomberg headquarters in New York, pointing to the potential for sales around the world. Right now, 95% of Novo’s Wegovy sales are in the US.

Alzheimer’s research has been stuck for decades—but is flawed science and research integrity part of the problem? Today on Bloomberg Wall Street Week: m.youtube.com/watch?t=633&v=…