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Paul E. Sax

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Harvard/Brigham Infectious Diseases doctor, writer, @CIDJournal editor, educator. Prefer baseball to football, pizza to sushi, dogs to cats, Beatles to Stones.
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Lyme Disease Deserves Better — But Better Starts with Better Evidence

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By Paul E. Sax
| The New England Journal of Medicine
When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced last week that it would devote more resources to Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases, the press coverage was, understandably, quite positive. After all, there is a great deal we still need to learn about these infections — how to prevent them, how to diagnose them earlier (and more accurately, the optimal treatments), and how best to care for patients who continue to feel unwell after treatment.
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An Oral Preventive Strategy for Covid-19 that Actually Works

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By Paul E. Sax
| The New England Journal of Medicine
More than 6 years into the Covid era — yes, still with us, still annoying, still capable of ruining travel, weddings, conferences, and the occasional carefully planned dinner reservation — we finally have something we have not had before: A Covid prevention strategy that works. That’s the take-home result from the SCORPIO-PEP trial, just published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Love-Hate #1: Air Travel

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By Paul E. Sax
| Substack
Aaron Fine. Silkscreen, 1958 Before I get to the Love-Hate business, and before you worry that I’m leaving Infectious Diseases behind to become one of those people who writes 2500 words about air travel horror stories, rest assured that earlier this week I wrote about the hantavirus outbreak linked to ship MV Hondius, saw patients and taught medical residents and ID fellows, and appeared on local TV discussing cruise safety.
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