The Washington Post reported Tuesday on new research suggesting that the novel coronavirus can be transmitted through the air after a toilet is flushed. The Post reported that researchers at the...
Category: Public Health Measures
Backlash to Contact Tracing Threatens Health Department EMployees
As Covid-19 test-and-trace efforts ramp up across the United States, health department employees are encountering protests, threats of violence and vandalism, NPR reports. NPR’s Will Stone...
Elected leaders fear that coast-to-coast protests sparked by the death of George Floyd have the potential to trigger a fresh wave of Covid-19 cases, the New York Times reports. Los Angeles Mayor Eric...
Experts Call on Congress to Increase Funding for Contact Tracing Efforts
A nonpartisan group of healthcare policy experts has called on federal lawmakers to increase funding to the states as efforts to implement contact tracing strategies continue to ramp up nationwide....
World Health Organization Launches Global Collaboration to Address COVID-19
Global leadership convened at a virtual event jointly hosted by the World Health Organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the European Commission and French President Emmanuel Macron on...
April 15, 2020 As closures of public, state, and federal lands increase, one group has been particularly at odds with authorities: surfers. All across California, beaches have been closed or facing...