Category: Public Health Preparedness

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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Around the country, more than two-dozen top public health officials have left their jobs in recent weeks. If combating coronavirus […]

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Erin Brodwin writs in STAT that software engineer Tim Brookins didn’t build his Bison Tracker app with the coronavirus pandemic […]

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State and local health officials have found themselves at the center of regular news briefings amid the coronavirus outbreak, making […]

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Nathaniel Weixel writes in The Hill that Anthony Fauci, the administration’s top infectious disease doctor, told a House panel on […]

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Deborah Netburns writes in the Los Angeles Times that nearly 2.3 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus that […]

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The program is crucial to the next phase of reopening, which begins on Monday. But workers have not had much […]

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The islands’ geography and small population helped. But so did two enterprising doctors who pushed for aggressive tracing and testing—and […]

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The Washington Post’s Amy Goldstein writes that the Trump administration has shifted a federal stockpile of emergency medical supplies — […]

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Selena Simmons-Duffin reports on NPR that a survey of state health departments shows that the national coronavirus contact tracing workforce […]

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