CDC Coronavirus Test Kit Failure Due to Contamination
Fallout from the agency’s failed rollout of national coronavirus kits two months ago continues to haunt U.S. efforts to combat ...
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Health Care Workers Seek Legal Immunity During Pandemic Response
In both the US and UK, health care workers are being asked to make triage decisions based on supply shortages ...
Hospitals Need Dialysis Equipment as Thousands of Coronavirus Patients Develop Kidney Problems
New reporting indicates approximately 20 percent of COVID-19 patients in intensive care need the kidney treatment, often for weeks, prompting ...
Nothing About NYC’s High Outbreak Numbers Was Inevitable
Research by the epidemiologists Britta and Nicholas Jewell suggests that 90 percent of COVID-19 deaths in the United States could ...
Disease Containment Policies Much Harder to Implement in Dense Communities That Lack Running Water
In high-income countries, massive debt-financed fiscal packages will help households and businesses “keep the lights on,” and to keep the ...
Google Releases COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports
Google Maps today published an early release of the company's COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports to provide insights for public health officials into ...
The U.S. Government Efforts to Build Low-Cost Ventilators Hit Industry Resistance Over Past Decade
Thirteen years ago, a group of U.S. public health officials came up with a plan to address what they regarded ...
Coronavirus Pandemic Bond Payouts Likely to Be Held Up By Fine Print
Investors are looking at big losses in two “pandemic bonds,” issued by the World Bank’s International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ...
USAMRIID: America’s Key Lab for Fighting Infectious Diseases Has Become a Pentagon Backwater
At the White House briefing Wednesday on efforts to combat COVID-19, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that he had just ...
How Did Florida Hire 100 Epidemiologists in a Weekend?
Last week, Florida health officials found themselves overwhelmed. The state’s disease experts were working around the clock to trace the ...
US Authorities Failing to Conduct Contact Tracing, a Cornerstone of Outbreak Response
If the US forgoes contact tracing in favour of aggressive social-distancing measures alone, the country risks the outbreak worsening, and ...
Hotel Influenza: Research Heats Up on Universal Flu Vaccines
A universal flu vaccine has eluded scientists for decades. Unlike other viruses, influenza has a rapid-fire mutation rate and thousands ...
NASA Enacts Stage 2 Pandemic Response Posture
NASA leadership announced on Mar. 14 enactment of Stage 2 of the agency's Response Framework for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) ...
DARPA P3 Researchers Race to Create Treatment for the Novel Coronavirus
Researchers working under DARPA's Pandemic Preparedness Platform (P3) are racing to apply their experimental techniques to a true pandemic playing out ...
Congressional Leaders on Ways and Means Ask IRS to Reconsider Tax Deadline Given Coronavirus Crisis
Today, Ways and Means Democrats requested that Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig provide the Committee with an update ...
Dr. Bruce Aylward Reports on China’s Novel Coronavirus Response
During a two-week visit to China in early February for the World Health Organization, Dr. Bruce Aylward saw how China ...
Now Is the Time to Resource the Public Health Emergency Fund
While working to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 within the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services is ...
U.S. to Ramp Up Mask Production, But China Is Bottleneck for Raw Materials
Vice President Mike Pence told Fox News on Feb. 29 the government had contracted 3M Co to produce an extra ...
Where the Coronavirus Bioweapon Conspiracy Theories Really Come From
Conspiracy theories infect us faster than the virus itself, it seems. This time, the basic idea behind all of them ...
A Call to Action on Plague Research
Plague is a communicable rodent-borne disease caused by Yersinia pestis that is primarily a wildlife disease that occasionally spills over ...
