Symptomless transmission makes the coronavirus far harder to fight. But health officials dismissed the risk for months, pushing misleading and […]
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Jun 2020
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The Washington Post reports that across the United States, 39,327 new coronavirus infections were reported by state health departments on […]
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Around the country, more than two-dozen top public health officials have left their jobs in recent weeks. If combating coronavirus […]
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Erin Brodwin writs in STAT that software engineer Tim Brookins didn’t build his Bison Tracker app with the coronavirus pandemic […]
Jun 2020
State and local health officials have found themselves at the center of regular news briefings amid the coronavirus outbreak, making […]
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Nathaniel Weixel writes in The Hill that Anthony Fauci, the administration’s top infectious disease doctor, told a House panel on […]
Jun 2020
Deborah Netburns writes in the Los Angeles Times that nearly 2.3 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus that […]
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Jay Behel and Jennifer A. Coleman write in STAT that some experts are warning of a looming mental health crisis in the […]
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The program is crucial to the next phase of reopening, which begins on Monday. But workers have not had much […]
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The islands’ geography and small population helped. But so did two enterprising doctors who pushed for aggressive tracing and testing—and […]
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