The amazing Helen Branswell writes there’s no point in sugar-coating this. The U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic is a […]
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Jul 2020
Category: COVID-19
Jul 2020
Rushing to contain a coronavirus cluster tied to a big party in a New York City suburb, officials turned to […]
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Jul 2020
Workplaces do it. Newly reopened public libraries do it. LAX does it. Some restaurants, bars, and retail stores started doing […]
Jun 2020
Helen Branswell writes in STAT that two U.S. research groups have reported finding nearly 300 cases of an alarming apparent […]
Jun 2020
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
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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Jun 2020
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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Jun 2020
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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Jun 2020
Nathaniel Weixel writes in The Hill that Anthony Fauci, the administration’s top infectious disease doctor, told a House panel on […]