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State Actions on COVID-19 Vaccine Verification

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Andy Baker-White,
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Michigan,
Ohio

As the number of COVID-19 vaccinations grows, some states are looking at their vaccination rates to determine when to loosen measures that mitigate the spread of COVID-19, such as venue capacity limits, business closure times, and masking ...

Nation’s Health Officials Call for Greater Collaboration and Communication With Federal Government

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On Sept. 2, 2020, ASTHO President and Secretary of Health for Pennsylvania released a statement urging greater collaboration between federal and state governments. This statement was a response to recent unexpected federal COVID-19 policy ...

Communicate With Care in Your Telework Policies

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Omar Khalid,
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An ASTHO blog article about how to communicate with care to staff about telework policies with the shift of the pandemic.

What You Need to Know About the COVID-19 Vaccine

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Emma Lange

Many pharmaceutical companies urgently began developing a COVID-19 vaccine earlier this year to reduce the spread of the virus as the threat of a pandemic loomed. Fast forward several months and millions of COVID-19 cases later, states and ...

The Seven Biggest Public Health Policy Issues on the Hill in 2020

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Data Modernization and Informatics,
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Race and Public Health,
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Jeffrey O. Ekoma,
Data Modernization

As a truly historic year comes to an end, many public health policy issues received a considerable amount of attention in 2020. Subjects such as the pandemic that will live on in infamy, racial health disparities, and the future of the ...

How States are Handling School Vaccination Requirements in a Pandemic

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Andy Baker-White,
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Maine,
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Women, Infant, and Family Health,
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Conditioning school attendance on student vaccinations is an evidence-based way of maintaining and increasing vaccine coverage. State law establishes school vaccination requirements which apply not only to public schools but often to ...

COVID-19’s Impact on Pregnancy and Childbirth Policies

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Many states have introduced bills to strengthen and increase access to these prenatal, delivery, and postpartum services, building a solid foundation of care for women who must navigate the healthcare system and make difficult decisions ...

BONUS: Fighting the Next COVID-19 Wave

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Members,
Robert Johnson,
Joseph Kanter,
Karyl Thomas Rattay,
Nirav Shah

This bonus episode is taken from a virtual news conference on Thursday, July 29, 2021. In it, Nirav Shah (Maine), Karyl Rattay (Delaware), and Joseph Kanter (Louisiana), discuss the latest issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic—mask ...