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A health worker holds a girl to give her polio vaccination drops during a house-to-house anti-polio vaccination campaign in Yemen's capital Sanaa, April 12, 2016.

Without Community Health Workers, the Global COVID-19 Response Could Fail

by Carey Westgate, Ash Rogers, Jessica Cook, Stella Luk, Daniel Palazuelos, Mandy Folse, Sarah Lindsay, Pauline Keronyai, Amanda Yembrick, Madeleine Ballard

Community health workers have played a vital role in global health efforts

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Each state's progress towards reduction in symptoms and cases, health system readiness, and increased testing. The image shows a map of the united states with four colors according to outbreak status. SOURCE: Covid Exit Strategy

COVID-19 This Week—The Looming Question: Internal Travel Restrictions

by Tom Frieden

To reduce risk, we must close bars and other indoor spaces, reduce crowds, mask up, wash hands, and increase distancing

A militarized approach to contact tracing is shown here as National Guard members at the Washington State Department of Health support contact tracing efforts in Tumwater, Washington—on May 20, 2020. The photo shows the guard members standing around a cubicle space talking. A table in the foreground is decorated with a drawing of a dinosaur and emblazoned with the words "I eat COVID-19 for breakfast. REUTERS/Jason Redmond
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Contact Tracing Requires Building Trust

by Sandra Mullin, Denene Jonielle Rodney

As states gear up their contact tracing efforts, here’s how they should approach getting buy-in within their communities