DIS work in health departments, community health centers, and other similar locations to perform contact tracing, partner services, and emergency […]
Jun 2021
Category: Public Health Emergency
Jun 2021
On June 18, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Health and Human Services […]
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Oct 2020
ProPublica’s James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg tell how the world’s greatest public health organization was brought […]
Oct 2020
With fears of a “twindemic” in the United States this fall, here’s a guide to understanding what’s making you feel […]
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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
The amazing writer Helen Branswell discusses in STAT that as the world wearies of trying to suppress the SARS-CoV-2 virus, […]
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