Healthcare Under 30s | Combating Covid-19 | Arecibo Telescope Collapses

Plus: Chocolate Does Not Make You Healthier

It’s been a tough year, but we’ve got 30 reasons for hope on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Healthcare list. This exceptional group of entrepreneurs, researchers and clinicians are working to solve some of the most pressing healthcare challenges. From a telemedicine CEO tackling mental health to an advocate mobilizing Black communities to expand access to health services to a physician researcher inventing new food to help repair the gut of undernourished children. The youngest honoree, Thomas Khairy, is 16 years old and has already been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

Also, be sure to check out the Forbes 30 Under 30 Science list, which includes some awesome research that could have applications for healthcare, such as the latest developments in Crispr technology and molecular computers that can modify cells. 

Prakriti Gaba was an internal medicine resident working at New York Presbyterian Hospital in March when the first cases of Covid-19 started coming in. Gaba, age 28, who was in the hospital’s intensive care unit, saw firsthand the devastation of the early months of the pandemic. She is just one of the Covid-19 champions on our Under 30 lists this year. From volunteering their personal time, to tackling additional research projects, to having to nimbly adapt their businesses to the ongoing pandemic, these inspiring entrepreneurs, researchers and academics are showing that they can still get incredible things done during a global crisis.

Noteworthy

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that Covid-19 was present in the U.S. in December 2019, weeks before even the first cases in Wuhan, China have been publicly reported. 

UnitedHealth Group said its 2021 revenues will reach $277 billion next year. 

The U.S. has secured more than 1 billion doses of six different Covid-19 vaccines. 

Scientists have used Crispr gene-editing to remove an HIV-like virus from monkey DNA. 

Some prestigious scientific journals are unveiling “open access options,” but the fees are still out of reach for many researchers, especially in low- and middle-income countries.

Across Forbes

• Famed Arecibo Observatory Telescope In Puerto Rico Collapses

• Can Hurricanes Form In December?

• New Study Finds These Tropical Fish Can Live To Be Over 80 Years Old

• Inside Curaleaf Billionaire Boris Jordan’s Hunger To Become The ‘Frito-Lay’ Of Cannabis

What Else We Are Reading

• Scott Atlas resigns as Trump's coronavirus adviser (POLITICO)

• OSHA Let Employers Decide Whether to Report Health Care Worker Deaths. Many Didn’t. (Kaiser Health News)

• A traveler tested negative for covid-19 before a flight. He had the virus and infected 4 passengers. (The Washington Post)