Category: COVID-19

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 […]

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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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Johns Hopkins University and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials published a well-documented white paper “A National Plan […]

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While most discussions have focused on countries’ use of surveillance technology, contact tracing is actually a fairly manual process. After […]

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Lauran Neergaard and Hallah Fingerhut, report that only about half of Americans say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if […]

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STAT’s Helen Branswell writes that new research has poured cold water on the theory that the Covid-19 outbreak in Washington […]

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The Hill’s Peter Sullivan writes that the U.S. is likely to enter a period of “slow burn” of coronavirus cases […]

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