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Isolation Without Vaccination: At War with a Virus

The Fight

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Isolation Without Vaccination: At War with a Virus

A Burden Shared

Science and technology are key to the global pandemic response. But, in delivering a “family box” of food, soap, and other essentials on May 25 to Gene and Bertha Mitchell, a Navajo couple in Chinle Valley, Arizona, Center for American Indian Health staffer Janice Dunn shows the greatest impacts begin with a human connection.

Photo: Nina Mayer Ritchie

In the Fight

How Contact Tracing Breaks the Chain of COVID-19 Transmission

One COVID-19 patient could lead to thousands of new cases. Contact tracers use calls, texts, and personal persuasion to prevent that from happening.

Racism and COVID-19

Lisa Cooper explains why the pandemic hit African American communities especially hard.

Voices of the Vulnerable

For asylum seekers, the incarcerated, frontline doctors, and others, COVID-19 has made hard lives harder.

Countering the Infodemic

Misinformation about SARS-CoV-2 is as contagious as the virus itself.

COVID-19 Real-Time Response

From a virtual ICU to a Navajo Nation quarantine, public health experts solve novel challenges.

Convalescent Plasma: A COVID-19 Treatment Speeds to Clinical Trials

An old-school approach offers a fast, stopgap solution for a modern pandemic.

Fighting a Virus Together

"Then COVID-19 hit—and dad, with lungs of steel and the heart of a lion, was fighting for his life at 61."

Making Sense of Myriad Models

What you need to know about all those COVID-19 predictions.

Coping with COVID-19

A global approach to universal psychological responses.

COVID-19 and Suicide: A Crisis Within a Crisis

The pandemic has created a convergence of suicide risk factors that need a public health response.

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