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Why Contact Tracing Is Failing in Many States.

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Contact tracing, a cornerstone of the public health arsenal to tamp down the coronavirus across the world, has largely failed in the United States; the virus’s pervasiveness and major lags in testing have rendered the system almost pointless. In some regions, large swaths of the population have refused to participate or cannot even be located, further hampering health care workers.

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How Many People in the U.S. Are Hospitalized With COVID-19? Who Knows?

U.S. records over 25,000 coronavirus deaths in July

Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Testing Czar Says It’s Not Possible for All Tests to Come Back Within 3 Days

As schools, universities and businesses struggle to reopen without the coronavirus testing they need to curb outbreaks, the Trump administration’s testing czar testified to Congress Friday that it was currently impossible to get all tests back within three days.

The testing czar, Adm. Brett P. Giroir, told lawmakers that getting all coronavirus tests back between 48 and 72 hours, which many health officials have said is critical, “is not a possible benchmark we can achieve today, given the demand and the supply.”

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CDC: Children might play 'important role' in spreading COVID-19

How Italy Turned Around Its Coronavirus Calamity

ROME — When the coronavirus erupted in the West, Italy was the nightmarish epicenter, a place to avoid at all costs and a shorthand in the United States and much of Europe for uncontrolled contagion.

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How Did Sweden Flatten Its Curve Without a Lockdown?

Despite never implementing a full-scale lockdown, Sweden has managed to flatten its curve, prompting its health leadership to claim victory -- but others question the cost of the strategy, as the country has a far higher death toll than its Scandinavian neighbors.

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Fauci tesifies he is cautiously optimistic COVID-19 vaccine will be widely available

Volunteers save New York's oldest community farm as Covid-19 hits agriculture

Virus wipes out 5 years of U.S economic growth

The coronavirus pandemic’s toll on the nation’s economy became emphatically clearer Thursday as the government detailed the most devastating three-month collapse on record, which wiped away nearly five years of growth.

Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced, fell 9.5 percent in the second quarter of the year as consumers cut back spending, businesses pared investments and global trade dried up, the Commerce Department said.

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Coronavirus hotspots ease, but officials warn normal is a long way off

European drugmakers Sanofi and GSK strike $2.1 billion deal with U.S. for a coronavirus vaccine

Trump planning for U.S. rollout of coronavirus vaccine falling short, officials warn

XPrize to give $5 million to creator of cheap, fast COVID-19 testing

Children may carry coronavirus at high levels, study finds

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