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New Report: Navigating the World that COVID-19 Made: A Strategy for Revamping the Pandemic Research and Development Preparedness and Response Ecosystem The Center for Health Security and The Council on Foreign Relations released a report urging governments, multilateral and international institutions, and private actors to act immediately to strengthen planning for future pandemic vaccines. JHCHS website designer Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

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Shift Covid testing from draconian punishment to empowerment - STAT Instead of viewing Covid-19 testing as a means of limiting access, reframe it as an empowering tool to let people gather more confidently. Maaisha Osman STAT

Public health is at its best when it is pragmatic in the face of complex problems fraught with stigma and uncertainty, like moving in the direction of full vaccination in the face of many Americans’ entrenched or even defiant anti-vaccination sentiment.

The new faces of Covid deaths The most recent group of 100,000 deaths is very different from the first, showing how the disease has shifted. And most were preventable. NBCNews

Younger, Southern, rural and white.

Those are increasingly the kinds of people who are dying of Covid-19, as the demographics of those hit hardest by the coronavirus have shifted since the pandemic first hit the United States. The country’s most recent, devastating Covid wave, fueled by the highly contagious delta variant, showed the strength of the virus even in the face of mounting vaccinations, with more than 100,000 deaths reported in the past three months.