COBTH in the News

For Dr. Jeremy Faust, the moment he realized the pandemic no longer dominated his workday came over Memorial Day weekend, when he didn’t see a single coronavirus case over two shifts in the emergency room at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

As a step towards mapping fitness biomarkers, Robert Gerszten at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues sampled blood from more than 650 sedentary adults.

The Globe spoke with three infectious diseases doctors at local hospitals and universities to answer common concerns.

Kenneth H. Mayer is an infectious disease physician, medical research director of Fenway Health, co-director of The Fenway Institute, and attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

People who take mental health days often “feel really guilty about it,” said Natalie Dattilo, a clinical health psychologist with Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

The findings highlight an important challenge of trial design, noted Rachel Buckley, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and David Knopman, MD, of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in an accompanying editorial.