SECRETARY AZAR: Well, good afternoon, everyone. I’m Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Chairman of the President’s Task Force on the Novel Coronavirus. I’m going to start by turning things over to Dr. Robert Redfield, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to discuss the current situation on the novel coronavirus. Dr. … [Read more...] about Press Briefing by Members of the President’s Coronavirus Task Force
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Novel Coronavirus Spread Spurs CDC Foundation Emergency Response Fund Activation; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Donates $1 Million
In recent weeks, a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was detected in Wuhan City, China, and the virus has spread to a growing number of countries, including the United States. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is taking aggressive public health measures to help protect the health of Americans, including requesting that the CDC Foundation activate its … [Read more...] about Novel Coronavirus Spread Spurs CDC Foundation Emergency Response Fund Activation; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Donates $1 Million
AHF Urges WHO to Immediately Declare Novel Coronavirus an International Health Emergency
With the deadly novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) originating in China and spreading to fifteen other countries, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) urges the World Health Organization (WHO) to immediately declare the virus a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). “It is absurd that WHO does not consider the new coronavirus an international threat,” said AHF … [Read more...] about AHF Urges WHO to Immediately Declare Novel Coronavirus an International Health Emergency
Coronavirus Pandemic Possible, Warns Physicians for Civil Defense
For the first time since 1949, outbound transportation from a provincial capital in China is being shut down, in response to an outbreak of a novel coronavirus infection, reports the Washington Post, in the middle of the busiest travel season of the year. About 400 million people are expected to be in transit before Lunar New Year's Day. Human-to-human transmission of this … [Read more...] about Coronavirus Pandemic Possible, Warns Physicians for Civil Defense
At Times of Viral Global Outbreaks Like the Coronavirus, Ontario’s Overcrowded, Underfunded Hospitals Severely Disadvantaged
Ontario’s overcrowded, understaffed and underfunded hospitals are already challenged under the strain of a growing and aging population and as a result they are “severely disadvantaged at times of viral global outbreaks, like the Coronavirus now spread to North America from China,” says Michael Hurley the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU). “Today, … [Read more...] about At Times of Viral Global Outbreaks Like the Coronavirus, Ontario’s Overcrowded, Underfunded Hospitals Severely Disadvantaged