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The rise of seriously ill COVID-19 patients is a reminder of the primary role that public health departments play in responding to any outbreak: preventing community-wide transmission of disease.

The requisites for community recovery include universal COVID-19 testing, public compliance with stay-at-home and physical distancing recommendations, and a public health and health care system with the capacity to respond to hotspots and ...

More than 100 rural hospitals have closed since 2010, and an additional 25% are at high risk of closure, and COVID-19 has magnified the existing stressors on rural healthcare. As a result, states are using a variety of measures to address ...

This Health Policy Update is an overview of policy strategies that states have taken at the executive and legislative levels to increase the healthcare workforce to more effectively and efficiently respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

To prepare and respond to COVID-19, Congress and the administration approved three emergency supplemental bills for the federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governmental agencies. This post outlines some key points to keep in ...

This episode dissects concerns at the southwest United States border, where health and governmental officials find themselves managing an extraordinarily complex situation: handling an increase in migration activity during a global ...