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Scientists have released three studies that reveal intriguing new clues about how the COVID-19 pandemic started. Two of the reports trace the outbreak back to a massive market that sold live animals, among other goods, in Wuhan, China1,2, and a third suggests that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-...
The level of anxiety among health-care workers now is no comparison to that outbreak, Buchman said, adding he was shocked to learn Canada did not have enough personal protective equipment for a pandemic after the SARS commission recommended to stockpile it. “What can I say? ...
By December 1918, the deadly second wave of the Spanish flu had finally passed, but the pandemic was far from over. A third wave erupted in Australia in January 1919 and eventually worked its way back to Europe and the United States. ...
Regulatory agencies around the world have responded to the need to improve medical workforce capacity in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. In the United States, a growing number of American states have taken measures to waive or expedite licensure for inactive or retired medical licensees (FSMB...
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on 11 March 2020 [2]. France reported the first cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection on 24 January 2020 [3]. Both cases had a history of travel to Wuhan, China [4]. To the best of our knowledge, these two cases are ...
The COVID-19 pandemic, which is disrupting our lives and shaking our health systems and economies, is at the root of what Dr. Sylvie Briand, director of the Department of Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO), rightly desc
The World Health Organization has been criticized for being slow to declare a public health emergency and a pandemic as COVID-19 spread. Yale SOM's Saed Alizamir, with Francis de Véricourt of ESMT and Shouqiang Wang of the University of Texas at Dallas,
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