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White House Empties Office for U.S. Pandemic Policy: The Gaps Left Behind

White House Empties Office for U.S. Pandemic Policy: The Gaps Left Behind

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Summer departures leave the White House without a senior official for pandemic preparedness, biosecurity, or biodefense

Mpox Surge in Sierra Leone: A Stress Test for National Readiness

Mpox Surge in Sierra Leone: A Stress Test for National Readiness

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Epidemics have a habit of revealing whether the last crisis was truly instructive or merely traumatic

Pandemic Responses Should Not Rely on Border Closures

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Lessons learned from COVID-19 should inform future public health responses

Pandemic Responses Should Not Rely on Border Closures

Lessons From Africa for Future-Proofing Global Health

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Africa's response to COVID-19 provides valuable insight for organizations seeking to make meaningful change

Lessons From Africa for Future-Proofing Global Health

UPDATED: Timeline of the Coronavirus

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A frequently updated tracker of emerging developments from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic

Photo shows a gloved hand holding a test tube labeled, “2019 nCoV” with two boxes ,marked “Positive” and “Negative.” The positive box is checked.

Strengthening Epidemic Preparedness at the Country Level

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Health security approaches and challenges

Strengthening Epidemic Preparedness at the Country Level

Five Conditions for Success in Public Health

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What improving public health requires

Five Conditions for Success in Public Health

Health-Systems Strengthening in the Age of COVID-19

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As the pandemic stresses many health-systems to their breaking point, it’s more important than ever to bolster them now

Beds at a temporary field hospital set up in a sports complex by Medicines Sans Frontieres during the coronavirus outbreak in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa, on July 21, 2020. The photo shows a large gymnasium with lots of beds in rows. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

Coronavirus in Toronto—Lessons Lost on a Second SARS

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The city's COVID-19 response is strongly informed by the experience of the earlier outbreak—but by no means exceptional

Bird's eye view: visitors take in a panoramic scene of the city of Toronto, Canada, from the 553 meters (1815 feet) high CN Tower, which just reopened after coronavirus restrictions on July 15, 2020. The photo shows a woman wearing a mask looking out from the skyview of the tall building with the Toronto cityscape beneath her. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio

Argentina's Quarantine—The Long View

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To build on the country's early success against COVID-19, we should envision an overall Latin American pandemic response

Argentine canoeist Sebastian Rossi trains in his girlfriend's pool, due to the coronavirus outbreak, as he prepares for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, in Buenos Aires, Argentina June 8, 2020. The photo shows the canoeist rowing furiously in a swimming pool. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian

Estimating the Latin Wave of Coronavirus

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Projections show potential impact of COVID-19 on Latin America—Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador among the hardest hit

Monica Samudio, 46, whose husband Jorge Garcia, 51, died from coronavirus looks out of her window in Mexico City on April 29, 2020. Samudio faced discrimination when she contracted the disease. Picture shows the woman looking out her window and partially reflected in the glass. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Avoiding Another COVID-19 Surge in the United States

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Keeping tabs on movement, infections, and testing are crucial to containing the virus

New cars are seen lined up next to the dock as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, at the Port of Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 29, 2020. The photo is an aerial shot of a large lot packed completely with lines of cars. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson