Tom Frieden and Cyrus Shahpar write in the New York Times about a plan to collect crucial data, even if […]
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Jul 2020
Category: Public Health Emergency
Jul 2020
Billions are being poured into developing a shot, but the rapid timetable and President Trump’s cheerleading are creating a whole […]
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Jul 2020
The roots of the nation’s current inability to control the pandemic can be traced to mid-April, when the White House […]
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Jul 2020
Nicholas Florka writes in STAT that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the country’s top public health agency, is […]
Jul 2020
The amazing Helen Branswell writes there’s no point in sugar-coating this. The U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic is a […]
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Jul 2020
Rushing to contain a coronavirus cluster tied to a big party in a New York City suburb, officials turned to […]
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Jul 2020
Workplaces do it. Newly reopened public libraries do it. LAX does it. Some restaurants, bars, and retail stores started doing […]
Jun 2020
Helen Branswell writes in STAT that two U.S. research groups have reported finding nearly 300 cases of an alarming apparent […]
Jun 2020
Symptomless transmission makes the coronavirus far harder to fight. But health officials dismissed the risk for months, pushing misleading and […]
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Jun 2020
The Washington Post reports that across the United States, 39,327 new coronavirus infections were reported by state health departments on […]
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