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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Jun 2020
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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Jun 2020
The program is crucial to the next phase of reopening, which begins on Monday. But workers have not had much […]
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Jun 2020
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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Jun 2020
The Washington Post’s Amy Goldstein writes that the Trump administration has shifted a federal stockpile of emergency medical supplies — […]
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Jun 2020
Selena Simmons-Duffin reports on NPR that a survey of state health departments shows that the national coronavirus contact tracing workforce […]
Jun 2020
Robert King writes in Fierce Healthcare that the COVID-19 pandemic is starting to reach rural areas as cases in several […]
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Jun 2020
Joel Achenbach and Laura Meckler write in today’s Washington Post that shutdown orders prevented about 60 million novel coronavirus infections in the […]
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