Steve Morrison
J Stephen Morrison Senior Vice President & Director, Global Health Policy Center, Center for Strategic and International Studies
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: America- Two Different Countries Responding to a Single Pandemic
Mollyann Brodie, America’s premier health survey researcher, explores the widening bifurcation of America along partisan and ideological grounds, with “wildly different conceptions, wildly different sources of information, sealed off from...
Steve Morrison
A marvelous conversation with America’s premier health survey researcher, Mollyann Brodie: how a politicized, deeply partisan divide drives the American response to Covid-19.
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Take as Directed: Coronavirus Crisis Update: Tom Bollyky – The Next "Once in a Century" Pandemic Lies Ahead on Apple Podcasts
Show Take as Directed, Ep Coronavirus Crisis Update: Tom Bollyky – The Next "Once in a Century" Pandemic Lies Ahead - Oct 16, 2020
We cannot rely on magical thinking: Herd immunity is not a plan - STAT
Trying to achieve herd immunity without a vaccine by building immunity through natural infection would add thousands of preventable deaths.
Steve Morrison
A faux science libertarian challenge to the Covid-19 crisis is real. Roger Atlas and his fellow dissident libertarians are a true threat. Must take them much more seriously.
We cannot rely on magical thinking: Herd immunity is not a plan statnews.com/2020/10/16/we-… via @statnews
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When Science Is Pushed Aside
Downplaying the dangers of the pandemic and politicizing public health measures was grossly negligent and cost untold lives.
Steve Morrison
@JInterlandi An incisive survey of the damage inflicted upon CDC, FDA, EPA. What will restore their integrity? Beyond a change at the WH? New agency leadership w/true gravitas, renewal of norms, legislative, structural protections.
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White House Opposes Expanded Virus Testing, Complicating Stimulus Talks
Some administration officials say testing Americans with no symptoms of the coronavirus would hurt the economy and restrict civil liberties. Democrats and some prominent experts say it would slow the virus and bolster economic growth.
Steve Morrison
Libertarian pseudo-scientists in the White House oppose expanded testing, as daily Covid-19 cases approach 70k. “Policy” as madness, one year into a pandemic that has infected 8m and killed almost 220k.
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Tom Bollyky – The Next "Once in a Century" Pandemic Lies Ahead
In this episode, we are joined by Tom Bollyky of the Council on Foreign Relations. Co-director of a newly released bipartisan CFR Independent Task Force on pandemic preparedness and the response to Covid-19, Tom walks us through the Task Force’s...
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Steve Morrison
Listen to our latest podcast -- @TomBollyky on the new CFR Task Force on pandemic preparedness & the lessons of Covid-19. What are the essential next steps?
Coronavirus Crisis Update: Tom Bollyky – The Next "Once in a Century" Pandemic Lies Ahead
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CDC Extends Cruising Ban to Oct. 31
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extended its ban on cruise sailings in the U.S. by a month, to Oct. 31, matching industry plans to restart a business that has been largely suspended by the coronavirus pandemic.
Steve Morrison
Reopening cruise sailing Oct 31 may help Trump in Florida on Nov 3, but reopening the industry in midst of surge in northern hemisphere makes no sense. Wait til April.
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Lessons for the Next Pandemic—Act Very, Very Quickly
Scientists and public-health leaders are working on new ways to find infections before they spread. Smarter lung scans and screening blood samples are two of their ideas. One thing is certain: There will be a next time.
Steve Morrison
Speed may come from new technology and new surveillance networks — of blood, lungs, sewage. It also has to have a quick reliable pathway to a leadership that will act.
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A Demoralized CDC Grapples With White House Meddling and its Own Mistakes
Trump advisers made line-by-line edits to official health guidance, altering language written by scientists on church choirs and social distancing.
Steve Morrison
Political interference cripples a permeable #CDC suffering from mediocre leadership. To restore CDC requires a director with gravitas & direct access to the president plus revised ground rules protecting sanctity of guidance, press briefings.
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News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
Steve Morrison
Not the news we wish to hear.
Remdesivir has little effect on Covid-19 mortality, WHO study says
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: U Wis-Madison Chancellor Blank: "No Matter What You Do, People Will Be Angry With You.”
As UW-Madison opened in early September, it faced a sudden explosion of Covid-19 cases. Hear from Chancellor Rebecca Blank why this happened, the steps taken to re-stabilize the university amid multiple, deep political divisions across Wisconsin, a...
Steve Morrison
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank podcast: after the shock of 3k Covid-19 cases in early September, how the UW restabilized. @UWMadison
Coronavirus Crisis Update: U Wis-Madison Chancellor Blank: "No Matter What You Do, People Will Be Angry With You.”
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Facebook Bans Anti-Vaccination Ads, Clamping Down Again
The social network, which prohibits misinformation related to the coronavirus, has also banned other types of content in recent days.
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Steve Morrison
V good news. Let’s hope this truly helps clean up the degraded digital world, & inspires others to follow. Timing could not be more propitious.
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Take as Directed: Coronavirus Crisis Update: Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) on America’s Choices on Apple Podcasts
Show Take as Directed, Ep Coronavirus Crisis Update: Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) on America’s Choices - Oct 7, 2020
Steve Morrison
Listen to our conversation with Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK) on COVID in the White House, America and beyond.
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Heidi Larson Knows How to Build Trust in Vaccines
For the founder of the Vaccine Confidence Project, squashing viral rumors means building trust — and avoiding the term “anti-vaxxer.”
Steve Morrison
A marvelous, warm, insightful profile of @ProfHeidiLarson by @jandersonQZ Heidi has done more than any person on earth to understand #vaccine hesitancy.
She Hunts Viral Rumors About Real Viruses
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With His Own Vaccine, Putin Jumps Ahead of Trump
As America retreats from world affairs, Russia is promising other nations help on the pandemic.
Steve Morrison
@jtwigg9 Prof Judyth Twigg— #Putin winning the vaccine scramble as US looks inward
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First, a Vaccine Approval. Then ‘Chaos and Confusion.’
Come spring, Americans may have their choice of several so-so coronavirus vaccines — with no way of knowing which one is best.
Steve Morrison
The US system of "harmonized" individual vaccine trials (vs trials grouped under a "master protocol") may have perverse impacts: the 1st vaccine authorized may be so-so, but may impede completion of trials of other promising vaccines. @Carl Zimmer
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Pentagon scrambles to retrace steps after White House COVID-19 outbreak
The Pentagon is retracing the steps of its top brass after a positive coronavirus case among senior officials forced Defense Department heads into quarantine.
The 1619 Chronicles
Journalism does better when it writes the first rough draft of history, not the last word on it.
7 looming questions about the rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine - STAT
Despite the best of intentions and months of painstaking planning, expect snafus and confusion in the effort to get vaccines to people.
Steve Morrison
@HelenBranswell @pharmalot
Handling the @Pfizer messenger RNA vaccine for #Covid-19 is going to be exceedingly complex and difficult. Realistically, acc to #BillFoege , it will be limited to hospitals.
statnews.com/2020/10/09/7-l… via @statnews
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Subscribe to read | Financial Times
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
Steve Morrison
The winter surge is knocking at the front door
New US cases top 50,000 for a second day ft.com/content/baea6c… via @financialtimes
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