ProPublica’s James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg tell how the world’s greatest public health organization was brought […]
Oct 2020
Category: COVID-19
Oct 2020
Nicholas Florko writes in STAT that when President Trump unveiled Operation Warp Speed in May, he declared that it was “unlike anything […]
Sep 2020
Speaking to STAT’s Helen Branswell, philanthropist Bill Gates, who has long warned of the need to prepare for pandemics, is dumbfounded by […]
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Sep 2020
Once a reliable vaccine exists, it won’t stop the pandemic unless most people are willing to take it. Economics provides […]
Sep 2020
STAT’s Helen Branswell reports that a new report that aims to prioritize groups to receive Covid-19 vaccine focuses on who […]
Aug 2020
The Hill’s Jessie Hellmann and Nathaniel Weixel write that a patchwork approach to contact tracing across state health departments is […]
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Aug 2020
Andrew Joseph, Helen ‘Branswell and Elizabeth Cooney write in STAT that the “before times” seem like a decade ago, don’t […]
Aug 2020
Reid Wilson writes in The Hill that health officials across the country are calling it quits in the midst of […]
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Aug 2020
Saskia V. Popescu writes that contact tracing is one of the best tools we have in the public health arsenal […]
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Aug 2020
New research suggests that some of us may be partially protected due to past encounters with common cold coronaviruses. Ariana […]