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The Guardian: The landmark of 1 million cases will raise new concerns that frail healthcare systems will be overwhelmed as the infectious disease hits populations already weakened by poor diet or other illnesses.

STAT: We should be using a more encompassing metric for measuring mortality: the total number of lives lost in excess of historically expected levels. Here’s why.

Wall Street Journal: Making a safe, effective Covid-19 vaccine will be hard enough, but distributing it and building trust for widespread participation will be even harder

Global Heart Journal: This article reviews the science and practice informing what is required to achieve this target, identifying seven interventions that can accelerate progress

HMS Center for Primary Care: Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States faced an epidemic of drug overdose, topping half a million deaths over the last decade. COVID-19—both the virus itself and some of the strategies and policies implemented in response to it—has made the preexisting overdose crisis even more severe.

Think Global Health: There’s broader recognition of how serious the U.S. failure is, but not enough on what needs to get done. The virus has the upper hand, it won’t stop until we stop it, and we won’t stop it until we focus better on the most important data.