Preparedness and Response
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 5, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> ABSTRACT | The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and resulting disease state COVID-19 pose a direct threat to an over-burdened U.S. medical care system and...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 5, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Since 1995, the global community has experienced six outbreaks that the World Health Organization (WHO), as authorized in a 2005 revision of the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 13, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Health care workers face serious risks to their own health and safety during both routine and emergency work. Airborne transmissible diseases—pathogens that...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 25, 2018 | Commentary, Perspectives
Despite efforts to increase rates of immunization among Medicare patients, especially racial and ethnic minorities, these rates remain well below Healthy People 2020 targets [1]. It is not difficult to conclude that we need to learn more about how and why...
by Kyra E. Cappelucci | Jul 31, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The antibiotic resistance problem is caused by the evolution and transfer of genes that confer resistance to medically important antibiotics into human pathogens. The acquisition of such resistance genes by pathogens complicates disease treatment, increases...
