Mar 15 2021
As vaccination efforts slowly ramp up across the U.S. and more states and communities start to reopen, testing remains a critical proactive strategy to controlling local outbreaks, monitoring for variants, …
Health U.S. & the Americas
Mar 12 2021
Perspective
In a global pandemic, no country is safe until everyone is safe. Lockdowns, restricting border crossings, and general disruption to commerce and trade are only sustainable for short bursts of …
Mar 10 2021
Perspective
Long-term school closures are a particularly devastating consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic. Students could lose between 5 to 9 months of learning by the end of the school year, with …
Mar 10 2021
Video
On our March 10th State & Territory Alliance for Testing communications webinar, Dr. Lucy Schulson from Boston Medical Center’s Immigrant & Refugee Center shared her experience communicating about the vaccine …
Mar 10 2021
Video
On our February 11th State & Territory Alliance for Testing communications webinar, Stefanie Friedhoff from Brown University’s School of Public Health and Claire Wardle from First Draft News talked about …
Mar 09 2021
Data has been called the “new oil” that powers everything locally and globally from business to politics to medicine. But it’s only as useful as it is accessible and timely, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mar 08 2021
Press Releases
NEW YORK | March 8, 2021 – The United States is currently conducting sequence-based surveillance for fewer than one percent of coronavirus cases, a rate that is lagging far behind …
Mar 08 2021
Our report lays out a new plan for the urgent amplification of national genomic surveillance efforts and outlines a six-part strategy to enable rapid detection and control of emerging SARS-CoV-2 …
Health U.S. & the Americas
Mar 08 2021
Press Releases
NEW YORK | March 8, 2021 – The Rockefeller Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Rick Bright is joining as Senior Vice President of Pandemic Prevention and Response. In …
Feb 28 2021
Statements
The good news on vaccines continues. With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the single-shot vaccine from Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Biotech vaccine for emergency use, the world has …