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Biden and Harris meet with their COVID-19 advisers virtually on Nov. 9. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

November 13, 2020

President‑elect Biden’s new COVID‑19 task force gives the US a fresh chance to turn around a public health disaster

Catherine Lynne Troisi, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Biden will begin his presidency in the midst of a global public health crisis that’s already killed over 240,000 people in the US alone. His team is already planning how to get COVID-19 under control.

Workers on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020 removed the main sign to the visitors’ entrance to the CDC, leaving instead a temporary one made of cardboard-like material. Lynne Anderson

August 31, 2020

I’m a public health researcher, and I’m dismayed that the CDC’s missteps are causing people to lose trust in a great institution

Catherine Lynne Troisi, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

The CDC has long been a trusted source of health information, keeping the public not only safe but calm in times of disease outbreaks. Public health officials fear now for its reputation.

In Irvine, Calif., a COVID-19 test is retrieved from a drive-in patient at Orange County Great Park. For four weeks, the testing station will see 520 patients per day. Getty Images / Allen J. Schaben

July 21, 2020

Coronavirus numbers confusing you? Here’s how to make sense of them

Pamela M. Aaltonen, Purdue University and Catherine Lynne Troisi, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

There’s more to the numbers than what you see on TV.

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