Even before the infamous 1918 “Spanish Flu” that killed millions, there was a “Russian Flu” three decades before. The history […]
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Mar 2020
Category: Public Health Emergency
Mar 2020
William Wan, Reed Albergotti and Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post report a growing debate pits the health of the […]
Mar 2020
The BBC’s Kate Lamble produced a fascinating nine-minute story on how scientists dug into Alaska’s permafrost to find traces of […]
Mar 2020
The BBC’s Richard Gray tackles a question many have been asking, will summer spell the end to COVID-19? Some people […]
Mar 2020
Dr. Sheri Fink of the New York Times has yet another compelling story today: The Hardest Questions Doctors May Face: […]
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Mar 2020
Lydia DePillis, Mike Spies, Joshua Kaplan, Kyle Edwards and Caroline Chen of ProPublica report that three days after Florida requested […]
Mar 2020
New York Times reporters David E. Sanger, Eric Lipton, Eileen Sullivan and Michael Crowley authored a superb story that outlines […]
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Mar 2020
Karen Weise and Mike Baker of the New York Times report that fearing a critical shortage of lifesaving resources as […]
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Mar 2020
Vice President Mike Pence is in charge of the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus. But so is Deborah Birx, […]
Mar 2020
The Washington Post asked Harvard University epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch to answer whether the reported drop in COVID-19 cases in China […]
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