Category: Bio-Defense Network Team

Selena Simmons-Duffin reports on NPR that a survey of state health departments shows that the national coronavirus contact tracing workforce […]

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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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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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STAT’s Sharon Begley and Helen Branswell write that even as Americans fight (and even kill) over the country’s response to the […]

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 Eric Lipton, Abby Goodnough, Michael D. Shear, Megan Twohey, Apoorva Mandavilli, Sheri Fink and Mark Walker write in today’s New York Times. WASHINGTON — Americans returning from […]

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Matthew Herper and Andrew Joseph write in STAT that two of the world’s leading medical journals on Tuesday expressed concern […]

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Medscape’s Alicia Ault writes that hundreds of thousands of people, both clinicians and laypeople, have leapt at the chance to […]

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Rajaie Batniji writes in STAT that consensus seems to be emerging that businesses can safely reopen by checking the temperatures […]

Read More… from Optimism, not evidence, is driving America’s return-to-work strategy

STAT’s amazing reporter Helen Branswell interviews equally- amazing Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious […]

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A state-by-state analysis shows that deaths officially attributed to covid-19 only partially account for unusually high mortality during the pandemic […]

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