Ayla Ellisin of Becker’s Hospital Review reports the demand for hospital beds in the U.S. is projected to far exceed […]
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Mar 2020
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Mar 2020
Pierre E. Rollin, M.D., worked for the CDC for 27 years, retiring in 2019 as epidemiology team lead of the […]
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Mar 2020
Greg Burel retired as director of the Strategic National Stockpile at the end of 2019, and in an article for […]
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Reid Wilson of The Hill reports that American health officials are deeply concerned that the coronavirus outbreak that has overwhelmed […]
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Mar 2020
Test kits and protective gear have been in short supply, doctors are falling sick, and every day gets more difficult. […]
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Mar 2020
The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to […]
Mar 2020
The spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, and the resources to fight it, are being tracked and mapped by governments […]
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Mar 2020
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
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 […]