Dan Goldberg
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Health worker crunch pressures states battling Delta variant
The alarming spread of new cases is draining the pool of available health workers in ways not seen since the pandemic’s winter peak. → Read More
GOP governors embrace Covid cocktails over masks as cases surge
The push to medicate rankles public health officials and some within the Biden administration, who say the governors' stance misleadingly implies Covid-19 can be treated easily. → Read More
Children's hospitals are swamped with Covid patients — and it may only get worse
Nearly 1,600 kids with Covid-19 were hospitalized last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — a new seven-day record and a 27 percent increase from the week before. → Read More
Chaos and confusion: Back to school turns ugly as Delta rages
Nearly 18 months into the pandemic, there’s no consensus on how to keep students and staff safe. → Read More
Biden picks former West Virginia health official as drug czar
Rahul Gupta, who gained national recognition for his anti-opioid efforts, will oversee President Joe Biden's response to a worsening drug crisis. → Read More
Delta variant said to be far more widespread than federal estimates
The reality on the ground is likely much higher because states and private labs are taking weeks to report testing results to the CDC. → Read More
The partisan divide in vaccinations is starker than you realize
The effort to reach the unvaccinated has become the latest political fault line in the Covid response. → Read More
Why Covid rules on liquor, pot and telemedicine might last past the pandemic
Industries pressing their case before state lawmakers are banking on polls finding widespread support for these new conveniences. → Read More
Biden’s next pandemic challenge: Getting Americans to accept the virus
The challenge for Biden, his response team and state health officials will be managing the rolling series of outbreaks possibly driven by more dangerous virus variants. → Read More
States have a new Covid problem: Too much vaccine
Millions of Americans are still getting shots each day — but, in a jarring twist after months of scarcity, too many slots remain open as skeptics hold out. → Read More
Arkansas governor vetoes ban on youth transgender care
The Republican warned the measure amounted to government overreach, but Republican lawmakers are likely to override his veto. → Read More
Biden doubles vaccine goal for first 100 days
The president framed the more ambitious target as the best and fastest way to contain the virus, which he said is his most important mission. → Read More
How Biden’s team botched his Cabinet debuts
It has been far from the quiet and carefully planned process many expected at the start. → Read More
Biden starts countering Trump’s messaging on vaccine
With the first shots being prepared for delivery to states next week, Biden’s team is already laying the groundwork for a public education campaign. → Read More
U.S. could face months of vaccine shortages amid global competition
The United States has reserved roughly 800 million doses from six manufacturers, but it’s not yet clear whether all of their vaccines will prove safe and effective enough to use. | Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via AP The United States could be heading for a vaccine cliff this spring, with shortages forcing hundreds of millions of Americans to wait for shots amid intense global competition… → Read More
Biden’s plan for an army of disease trackers faces long odds
Steep costs and a gridlocked Congress could thwart enlisting a national corporation of contact tracers. → Read More
Red state governors reject Biden on mask orders
The politicization of mask-wearing shows how difficult it will be for Joe Biden to build consensus around even basic public health strategies after he’s sworn in. → Read More
Pandemic on course to overwhelm U.S. health system before Biden takes office
The country’s health care system is already buckling under the load of the resurgent outbreak that’s approaching 10 million cases nationwide. → Read More
Joe Biden will inherit a raging pandemic. Here’s what he plans to do next.
His strategy would toss out the Trump administration’s patchwork response that put the burden on states and install a top-down national framework. → Read More
Pence absent from Covid-19 planning calls for more than a month
As coronavirus cases spike upwards, the vice president’s task force is less active than before. → Read More