The Covid-19 Newsletter That's By Doctors for Doctors

The Covid-19 Newsletter That's By Doctors for Doctors

4 years ago
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https://www.wired.com/story/the-covid-19-newsletter-thats-by-doctors-for-doctors/

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed how different critical care doctors are from the rest of us—and how similar. Different: They log heroic hours in the ICU, putting their own health and wellbeing at risk, to save as many lives as they can. Similar: Some of them pay too much attention to Twitter.

Those two facts go a long way towards explaining the mission of the authors of the Fast Literature Assessment Review (FLARE) newsletter at Massachusetts General Hospital. When they’re not treating Covid-19 patients in the intensive care unit, the eight doctors on the FLARE team work a second job: updating fellow physicians on the latest novel coronavirus research and debunking the freshest unproven theories floating around on social media. The free email list is still small, but growing fast: it grew from around a thousand to nearly 2,000 subscribers over the past week.