Inside Google's secretive healthcare business

Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer

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It's been nearly two years since Google revived its Google Health division.
The new Google Health has big ambitions to tackle some of healthcare's stickiest problems. It won't be easy.
It's still battling fallout from public distrust stemming from a controversial data deal with the health system Ascension. It's also lost out on some major deals as it tries to hammer out its road map, insiders told Business Insider.
It's not yet clear internally how Google Health fits in with the other health businesses within Alphabet, including the organization's Google Cloud and Verily operations.

National Nurses United, the country's largest nurse union, released a report Monday that found 213 registered nurses have died from COVID-19 and related complications, out of 1,718 total healthcare worker deaths.
Of the registered nurses who died of COVID-19, 58.2% were nurses of color, including 67 Filipino American nurses and 38 Black American nurses.

Household transmission plays a significant role in the coronavirus' spread.
The risk is especially high in crowded homes with more than one person per room, research suggests.
Sweden never fully locked down, but the nation's large share of people living alone may have helped slow the virus' spread and lower the country's death rate.

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- Lydia