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Suggestions for improving emergency operations centers

Tue, 2021-07-20 12:33 — mike kraft

The future of Emergency Operation Centers: Six shifts to consider from COVID-19

...In all its shapes, emergency operation centers (EOCs) have been at the core of emergency management since emergency response became a coordinated team activity. With the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, health-specific and, more broadly, disaster-focused EOCs have been under pressure like never before. These EOCs assisted in delivering responses at an unprecedented scale globally, especially in the public sector, helping further validate the concept.

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International effort to speed up COVID-19 vaccine trials

Tue, 2021-07-20 11:46 — mike kraft

Global quest underway to speed COVID-19 vaccine trials Scientists are working on a benchmark for COVID-19 vaccine efficacy that would allow drugmakers to conduct smaller, speedier human trials to get them to market and address a huge global vaccine shortage. Julie Steenhuysen,Ludwig Burger Reuters

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Millions of surplus Covid-19 vaccine doses pile up in U.S. states as expiration dates approach

Tue, 2021-07-20 09:18 — mike kraft

States are sitting on millions of surplus Covid-19 vaccine doses Public health officials fear the doses are going to go to waste even as countries around the world are desperate to secure their own doses. Olivia Goldhill STAT

Millions of unused Covid-19 vaccines are set to go to waste as demand dwindles across the United States and doses likely expire this summer, according to public health officials.

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CDC, State Department urge Americans not to travel to the UK because of COVID Cases spike v

Mon, 2021-07-19 19:39 — mike kraft

'Do not travel': CDC, State Department raise UK travel alert after spike in COVID cases The travel warnings come as the U.K. recorded more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases in a day for the first time in six months. Dawn Gilbertson USA TODAY

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FDA grants priority review for full approval of Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine;

Mon, 2021-07-19 19:12 — mike kraft

FDA grants priority review to Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine; agency official says approval decision expected within two months Pfizer and BioNTech said Friday the FDA has granted priority review designation to their application for approval of their Covid-19 vaccine, and an FDA official said the decision will come within months. Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN CNN

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Canada to let vaccinated US citizens to enter on Aug. 9, ban on India will continue

Mon, 2021-07-19 18:57 — mike kraft

TORONTO (AP) — Canada announced Monday it will begin letting fully vaccinated U.S. citizens into Canada on Aug. 9, and those from the rest of the world on Sept. 7.

Officials said the 14-day quarantine requirement will be waived as of Aug. 9 for eligible travelers who are currently residing in the United States and have received a full course of a COVID-19 vaccine approved for use in Canada.

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, who said he spoke with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday, said the U.S. has not yet indicated any plan to change current restrictions at the land border. Canadians are able to fly into the United States with a negative COVID-19 test.

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