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Devex: There is a better way to measure menstrual health, researcher says (Rogers, 3/17). Devex: Nigeria struggles with largest recorded Lassa fever outbreak (Unah, 3/18). The Guardian: Study: global banks ‘failing miserably’ on climate crisis by funneling trillions into fossil fuels (Greenfield/Makortoff, 3/18). The Guardian: Health workers targeted at least…
CDC’s “Emerging Infectious Diseases”: Volume 26, Number 3 — March 2020 This issue of CDC’s Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal contains research articles and letters on several infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, Ebola, and avian influenza (March 2020).
The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Challenges of coronavirus disease 2019 Editorial Board “Yet again, the world is experiencing a global viral epidemic of zoonotic origin. … [The recently formed Lancet Infectious Diseases Commission on Preparedness for Emerging Epidemic Threats] will revisit global preparedness planning and assumptions underlying agreements such as the…
AP: World battles virus epidemic as cases multiply outside China “Crews scrubbed everything from money to buses, military bases were on high alert, and quarantines were enforced Wednesday from a beachfront resort in the Atlantic to a remote island in the Pacific, as the world worked to halt the fast-spreading…
Devex: MSF ramps up coronavirus response with ‘back-to-basics’ approach (Lieberman, 2/27). The Hill: Health official says coronavirus vaccine will take ‘at least a year to a year and a half’ to develop (Deese, 2/26). MedPage Today: COVID-19 Requires ‘An Entire Village’ of Professionals (Walker, 2/26). NPR: New Test Begins To…
AP: Trump, U.S. officials send mixed messages on virus risk here “President Donald Trump and his chief economic adviser said Tuesday that the new coronavirus is under control in the U.S., even as the government’s top disease fighters warned Americans to prepare for an outbreak here. The mixed messages came…
The Hill: Lawmakers raise alarms over Trump coronavirus response “Lawmakers in both parties on Tuesday expressed growing alarm that the threat of coronavirus in the United States is serious, and that the Trump administration is not doing enough to fight it…” (Sullivan/Hellmann, 2/25). The Hill: GOP chairman of Appropriations panel…
CBS: Democratic candidates spell out how they would respond to coronavirus outbreak “As the Trump administration grapples with the growing coronavirus outbreak, Democrats vying for their party’s presidential nomination laid out their roadmaps for how they would respond if they were in the White House. Senator Amy Klobuchar, Former Vice…
AP: ‘Time is everything’: World braces for spread of new virus (Johnson et al., 2/25). PRI: Iranians skeptical their government can handle the coronavirus outbreak (Jaafari, 2/25). Reuters: E.U. calls for coordinated European response to coronavirus (Chalmers et al., 2/26). Science: The coronavirus seems unstoppable. What should the world do…
CNBC: U.S. health officials say human trials on coronavirus vaccine to start in 6 weeks “Human trials testing a potential vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus are expected to begin in six weeks, U.S. health officials announced Tuesday…” (Lovelace, 2/25). CNN: The U.S. has started human testing of a drug to…