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Books We’re Loving This Month: What To Read in February
Travis Kelce Reacts to Taylor Swift “Manifesting” Chiefs at Super Bowl
14 Sick Day Essentials To Add to Your Home ASAP
Trump threatens to cut funding for South Africa over land policy
Sister Wives’ Kody Brown Thinks He Made This Mistake With Polygamy
Revisit Taylor Swift, Beyoncé & More Stars’ First Grammys
Trump hits China, Mexico and Canada with tariffs
Where to watch UCLA vs. Michigan State gymnastics live stream, TV channel, start time for Jordan Chiles and more
Plane Crashes in Pennsylvania 2 Days After American Airlines Collision
New Music Friday January 31: The Weeknd, Will Smith, Big Sean, JENNIE, Jeff Goldblum and More
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Books We’re Loving This Month: What To Read in February Travis Kelce Reacts to Taylor Swift “Manifesting” Chiefs at Super Bowl 14 Sick Day Essentials To Add to Your Home ASAP Trump threatens to cut funding for South Africa over land policy Sister Wives’ Kody Brown Thinks He Made This Mistake With Polygamy Revisit Taylor Swift, Beyoncé & More Stars’ First Grammys Trump hits China, Mexico and Canada with tariffs Where to watch UCLA vs. Michigan State gymnastics live stream, TV channel, start time for Jordan Chiles and more Plane Crashes in Pennsylvania 2 Days After American Airlines Collision New Music Friday January 31: The Weeknd, Will Smith, Big Sean, JENNIE, Jeff Goldblum and More
Jan
2025
31

GAO: Public-health workforce shortage undermines ability to respond to outbreaks, other emergencies

A new US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report identifies a shortage of public health workers across multiple occupations and locations that restricts the ability to perform essential functions such as disease investigation and mitigation, hazard detection, and emergency response. The US Department

Aug
2024
2

Global leaders stress importance of broad-based, cooperative research to be ready for next pandemic

Yesterday the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the World Health Organization (WHO) urged scientists and political leaders to bolster global research to prepare for the next pandemic by focusing on families of pathogens as well as on individual infectious microbes.

Jun
2024
18

Quick takes: Pandemic unreadiness, 21-strain pneumococcal vaccine, chikungunya vaccine submission

Biggereye / iStock Less than 20% of reused filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) collected from nurses amid the COVID-19 pandemic were in good enough condition to undergo sterilization, after which none retained at least 94% filtration of aerosol particles, finds a laboratory study comparing

Apr
2024
18

Global health groups propose new terminology for pathogens that spread through the air

Well into the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were reluctant to use terms like “airborne,” “airborne transmission,” and “aerosol transmission” to describe the spread of the virus through the air, while

Mar
2024
19

Transportation, Treasury departments need to prep for infectious disease outbreaks, track aid money, report urges

The Department of Transportation (DOT) hasn’t created a national aviation preparedness plan for infectious disease outbreaks, despite a 2015 US Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommendation to do so, according to a new report on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. When tasked

Dec
2023
7

Quick takes: Test-to-treat extension, PAHO dengue alert, thin-film vaccine development

Wavebreakmedia / iStock A systematic review and meta-analysis estimates a nearly 50% long-COVID rate months after infection in Africa, with psychiatric conditions the most common manifestations. Published today in Scientific Reports, the February 2023 literature search and analysis involved 25 observational, English