Please Keep Your Masks On
Wearing masks in common, indoor spaces is such a small, easy, powerful act to help prevent the spread of disease.
coronavirus pandemic
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Read more: Reconsidering Mask Mandates Reconsidering Mask Mandates
Removing mask requirements means rejecting yet another public health tool to control the pandemic and protect our health care system.
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Read more: Reflections on Procedural Barriers to Pediatric COVID Vaccine Access Reflections on Procedural Barriers to Pediatric COVID Vaccine Access
Bureaucratic tape is causing delays in distributing these critical vaccines to our youngest children.
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Read more: How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies
The same ethical goals identified for vaccine allocation are also relevant for COVID-19 therapy allocation.
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Read more: Remember the Babies: The Need for Off-Label Pediatric Use of COVID-19 Vaccines Remember the Babies: The Need for Off-Label Pediatric Use of COVID-19 Vaccines
The CDC is failing parents by preventing off-label use of our existing COVID-19 vaccines in the under-five set.
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Read more: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 4: Winter of Death (December 2021 – Present) A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 4: Winter of Death (December 2021 – Present)
The Biden administration decided to go full speed ahead into a wave of Omicron infection, even as other countries have introduced targeted restrictions.
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Read more: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. – Dec. 2021) A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. – Dec. 2021)
The “tools” stood for individual choices based on personal risk tolerance rather than elements of regulatory frameworks to be pursued by the government.
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Read more: The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Failure of the Binary PHEIC Declaration System, and the Need for Reform The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Failure of the Binary PHEIC Declaration System, and the Need for Reform
The various proposals all have the goal of encouraging early reporting of, and response to, potentially serious disease outbreaks.
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Read more: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 2: A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated (May – Sept. 2021) A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 2: A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated (May – Sept. 2021)
Framing vaccination as a way to opt out of the pandemic has helped absolve the Biden administration of its responsibilities to protect the public’s health.
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Read more: From Shutting Down the Virus to Letting it Rip: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response From Shutting Down the Virus to Letting it Rip: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response
How did we get here? How is our Democratic president — who ran, in part, against Trump’s horrid pandemic response — letting the virus rip?
