Category: COVID-19

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 […]

Read More… from N.Y.C. Hired 3,000 Workers for Contact Tracing. It’s Off to a Slow Start.

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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The Washington Post’s Amy Goldstein writes that the Trump administration has shifted a federal stockpile of emergency medical supplies — […]

Read More… from Stockpile of emergency medical supplies moving back to health officials’ control

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

Read More… from As States Reopen, Do They Have The Workforce They Need To Stop Coronavirus Outbreaks?

Robert King writes in Fierce Healthcare that the COVID-19 pandemic is starting to reach rural areas as cases in several […]

Read More… from COVID-19 spikes in certain states spark concerns for vulnerable rural hospitals

Joel Achenbach and Laura Meckler write in today’s Washington Post that shutdown orders prevented about 60 million novel coronavirus infections in the […]

Read More… from Shutdowns prevented 60 million coronavirus infections in the U.S., study finds

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

Read More… from How the world can avoid screwing up the response to Covid-19 again

 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 […]

Read More… from The C.D.C. Waited ‘Its Entire Existence for This Moment.’ What Went Wrong?