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Ebola Still Constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
The second-biggest Ebola outbreak in history, which has upended life in eastern Congo's North Kivu and Ituri provinces since August...
WHO Director Fights to Prevent a Pandemic Without Offending China
If Tedros wants WHO to stay informed about what’s happening in China and influence how the country handles the epidemic,...
The U.S. Has a Biodefense Strategy. It Just Isn’t Following It.
The US has a biodefense strategy—it just isn’t following it. In 2018, the Trump administration released a National Biodefense Strategy...
China Launches Dozens of Clinical Trials to Identify Most Promising Treatments for COVID-19
A randomized, controlled trial is the gold standard of clinical research. But pulling one together for Covid-19 is complicated by...
Why Do Some of the Outbreak Genomes Have More Mutations Than Others?
Recent news reports have included speculation that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is ‘mutating’ and ‘evolving’ amid increasing concern that the outbreak...
Scientists Test Drugs Against Virus Samples from First U.S. COVID-19 Patient
Virologist Matthew Frieman at the University of Maryland School of Medicine is just one of the scientists cleared to receive...
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