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: Emergency Preparedness
May 2020
STAT’s Helen Branswell writes that with a little luck and a lot of science, the world might in the not-too-distant […]
Read More… from The world needs Covid-19 vaccines. It may also be overestimating their power
May 2020
STAT’s Helen Branswell writes that heavy hearts soared Monday with news that Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate — the frontrunner in the […]
May 2020
The Trump administration’s order ends deployments on June 24, just one day before thousands would qualify for education and retirement […]
Read More… from ‘Hard stop’: States could lose National Guard virus workers
May 2020
A pilot contact tracing program is launching in St. Clair and Lake counties, the governor announced Monday. Jonah Meadows reports […]
Read More… from Illinois Launches Coronavirus Contact Tracing Collaborative
May 2020
About 50 Yale students have become members of a contact-tracing brigade charged with notifying people who may have been exposed […]
Read More… from Life as a Covid-19 contact tracer: sleuthing, stress, and veering off-script
May 2020
Tens of thousands of people across the United States have applied for the job of cold-calling strangers who may have […]
May 2020
Even as Elmhurst faced “apocalyptic” conditions, 3,500 beds were free in other New York hospitals, some no more than 20 […]
Read More… from One Hospital Was Besieged by the Virus. Nearby Was ‘Plenty of Space.’
May 2020
STAT’s Andrew Joseph writes that even before President Trump started plugging chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as Covid-19 treatments, enthusiasm for the […]
Read More… from Utah went all-in on an unproven Covid-19 treatment, then scrambled to course-correct
May 2020
CNN reports that Dr. Rick Bright, the ousted director of a key federal office charged with developing medical countermeasures, will […]