COVID-19 Updates
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Help Children Learn at Home
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Help Stop the Spread of COVID-19 in Children
Based on available evidence, children do not appear to be at higher risk for COVID-19 than adults. While some children and infants have been sick with COVID-19, adults make up…
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How to Report COVID-19 Laboratory Data
The public health response to COVID-19 depends on comprehensive laboratory testing data. These data will contribute to understanding disease incidence and testing coverage, and can contribute to the identification of supply…
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Caring for Children
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Operational Considerations for Containing COVID-19 in non-US Healthcare Settings
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), is hosting a weekly webinar series for IPC in healthcare settings. Speakers from…
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Considerations for Inpatient Obstetric Healthcare Settings
These infection prevention and control considerations are for healthcare facilities providing obstetric care for pregnant patients with suspected1 or confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in inpatient obstetric healthcare settings including obstetrical triage,…
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Coronavirus cases and deaths over time: how countries compare around the world
As the Covid-19 coronavirus continues to spread around the globe it has affected different countries in different ways. The severity of outbreaks depends on many country-specific factors, such as how…
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In a post-pandemic economy, Asian businesses will think smaller and safer, with worrying implications for many workers
If you’re an office worker using Zoom while working from home, you’re part of a speeded-up Covid-19-induced technological revolution.Buyers of electrical grid transformers are conducting quality testing remotely via cameras…
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With all this talk of ‘travel bubbles’, where – and when – can Hongkongers go on holiday?
In 2017, online travel platform Kayak.com declared that Hong Kong was “a nation of travel addicts”, a conclusion reached after surveying citizens’ travel planning habits. While perhaps not the most…
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‘No point in lipstick’: Japan’s cosmetics sales drop as face masks become obligatory
In recent months, face masks have been hard to find in Japanese stores, but there’s one product that is not selling well: lipstick. As face mask usage became obligatory, and…