By Lillian Parr As the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted, rapid detection and swift information sharing are key to stemming the spread of emergent infectious diseases and their variants. To gain insight into a novel pathogen or variant, it must be quickly sequenced and analyzed to determine what threat it poses and what interventions are most…
By William Beaver After stepping away from the podium on Inauguration Day, President Biden got to work on fulfilling campaign promises, including re-establishing a productive working relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO), which is essential amid the deadliest pandemic in the last century. The president also made commitments to stopping a broad range of…