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Podcast from Washington: Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations process in Congress / Healthy People 2020

The NACCHO Podcast Series

Since the Public Health Emergency ends on May 11, Allen provided insight into emerging details from federal agencies about the new landscape of COVID-19 response. They also talked about the Food and Drug Administration’s move to make opioid reversal medication naloxone available over the counter.

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As California Taps Pandemic Stockpile for Bird Flu, Officials Keep Close Eye on Spending

KFF Health News

California is putting a number of lessons from the covid-19 pandemic to use, such as coordinating emergency response with local health officials and tracking infectious diseases through wastewater surveillance , as the state tries to limit the spread of bird flu to humans. California spent $15.6 Republican Gov.

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News Scan for Apr 02, 2020

University of Minnesota CIDRAP

News Scan for Apr 02, 2020 Jim Wappes Thu, 04/02/2020 - 15:17 Bullet points Dengue returns to Guam Avian flu in Europe Body Guam records first locally acquired dengue cases since 1944 A study today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ( MMWR ) details the first evidence of locally acquired dengue infections on Guam in more than 75 years.

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As California taps pandemic stockpile for bird flu, officials keep close eye on spending

HEALTHBEAT

Amid bird flu, farmworkers tending sick cows with only gloves to protect them California is putting a number of lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic to use, such as coordinating emergency response with local health officials and tracking infectious diseases through wastewater surveillance , as the state tries to limit the spread of bird flu to humans.

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Reporting the respiratory triple threat: Preparing for flu, COVID and RSV season

Association of Health Care Journalists

Newsroom CDC School Preparedness CDC COVID-19 vaccine recommendations CDC Seasonal Flu Vaccine Basics Press release: CDC Updates RSV Vaccination Recommendation for Adults Moderator Tara Haelle AHCJ Infectious Diseases Health Beat Leader Tara Haelle is AHCJ’s health beat leader for infectious diseases and medical studies.

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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

To bolster these efforts, BCHC urges the federal government to provide sustained funding, flexible resource allocation, and direct support to local health agencies, ensuring preparedness for future public health emergencies.

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All You Need to Know About Waterborne Diseases

Gideon

13] In fact, monitoring wastewater is an emerging epidemiological tool for tracking many pathogens, including many of the waterborne diseases discussed above. Emergencies preparedness, response – Typhoid fever. Atlanta: CDC; 01 Dec 2020. 2020 Mar;224:113420. [10] cited 2021 Jan 11.] [6] N Engl J Med.

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