Why we started Morning Pulse
We’re inundated with COVID-19 news. Death tolls, accounts from hospitals, ventilator estimates, political assurances, economic data — the information is unyielding, unforgiving, and often discouraging.
Paradoxically, our ability to address the disease is limited by how little we actually know. How many people actually have the coronavirus? How do we make accurate models for a virus we’ve never seen before? Do we wait to test new treatments until we have enough patients to draw definitive conclusions, or do we try what we can with the patients we have now?
The goal of Morning Pulse is to relay healthcare news, coronavirus-related and otherwise, honestly — acknowledging the limits of what we know while contextualizing what we can learn. We hope to make medicine a little more accessible and a little less scary at a time when staying informed is more critical than ever.
Who we are
Serena graduated from Yale University in 2018 with a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and is currently a third year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In her free time, Serena enjoys baking and pretending she’s on The Great British Bake-Off.
Mrinal graduated from Yale University in 2018 with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and currently works as a healthcare consultant at ClearView Healthcare Partners. In his free time, Mrinal attempts to share his love for cricket (the sport, not the insect) with anyone who will listen.
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