Much of the CDC is Working Remotely. That Could Make Changing the Agency Difficult.
Earlier this year, top leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began a monumental task: turning the sprawling, ...
Tag: Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned from COVID-19 for Nuclear Emergency Response
New paper from the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) draws on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic response to better prepare ...
Strengths and Challenges of Responding to Dual Disasters: Pandemics and Hurricanes
A new study of how the 2020 major hurricanes and the COVID-19 pandemic affected each other as well as disaster ...
Why Ebola is Back in Guinea and Why the Response Must Be Different This Time
New reports of Ebola in Guinea are causing anxiety given the history of the West Africa outbreak of 2014-2016. This ...
Rapid Response by Laboratory Animal Research Institutions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The National Academies will host a committee meeting on Rapid Response by Laboratory Animal Research Institutions During the COVID-19 Pandemic: ...
A Million Deaths From COVID-19: Experts Consider Key Questions
The pandemic has reached a grim milestone: one million people have now died of COVID-19, according to Worldometers. On January ...
As Long Waits for Results Render COVID Tests ‘Useless,’ States Seek Workarounds
States frustrated by private laboratories’ increasingly long turnarounds for COVID-19 test results are scrambling to find ways to salvage their ...
Disinformation Campaigns: Lessons from the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned an infodemic, a vast and complicated mix of information, misinformation and disinformation. In this environment, ...
Lessons for COVID-19 Pandemic from the Massive Public Health Effort to Eradicate Smallpox
Smallpox was a terrible scourge on humanity, killing hundreds of millions of people over the centuries. But its origin remains ...
The Safe Path Out of the Pandemic Requires Enormous Amounts of Testing
The world is now in the grips of a historic pandemic. The death toll from the novel coronavirus has climbed ...
UK Merger Watchdog Releases Analysis of Past Acquisition Attempt of PacBio by Illumina
The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) this week released an analysis of lessons learned from assessing the proposed acquisition ...
CDC Coronavirus Testing Decision Likely to Haunt Nation for Months to Come
As the novel coronavirus snaked its way across the globe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in early February ...
What Lessons Can the US Learn from Japan and South Korea for Combating Coronavirus?
On January 20, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus ...
