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The agency also prepared laboratories to test for the virus within Texas using kits provided by the CDC. [144] [145] The DSHS and TDEM initiated bi-weekly emergency planning meetings with other state agencies after February 27. [144] A laboratory at Texas Tech University in Lubbock became the first laboratory to test for SARS-CoV-2 in Texas. [146]
Dr. Robert Murphy, executive director of the Robert J. Havey Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University, said it’s crucial for the CDC and other federal health agencies to be free to ...
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There was a link between public health outcomes and partisanship between states. At the beginning of the pandemic to early June 2020, Democratic-led states had higher case rates than Republican-led states, while in the second half of 2020, Republican-led states saw higher case and death rates than states led by Democrats.
The government of New York state initially responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a stay-at-home order in March 2020. As the pandemic progressed in New York state and throughout the rest of the country, the state government, following recommendations issued by the U.S. government regarding state and local government responses, began imposing social distancing measures and workplace hazard ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. health agencies including the CDC this week canceled meetings with external groups, paused some public health publications and told employees to freeze travel after ...
New York State lowered its vaccine age from 75 to 65 on January 11, 2021. [101] As of January 25, 2021, 628,831 vaccines had been administered in New York City. [102] During the last week of the month, the city was averaging 5,000 new cases per day and around 60 deaths per day. [103]
State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald stressed that there are no human cases of the virus in New York and that the current strain does not spread easily to humans, with only 67 total cases ...