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Chapter 7b - R&D for COVID-19 - Treatments and Vaccines Are in Development At the time of this post, there are no approved treatments for COVID-19. Severe cases are being treated with currently available respiratory standard of care, and companies with antiviral...

Chapter 5 - Stay Up-To-Date Using Public Health Web Sites You may feel stressed and anxious about the COVID-19 outbreak. Staying informed using reliable sources is a good way to protect yourself and reduce stress. The best source in the US remains the COVID-19...

Chapter 4 - Controlling the Spread of COVID-19 - Our Actions Help It’s important to keep in mind that the risk of COVID-19 for most people outside of China is low. If you have not traveled from China or been in contact with a laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19, you...

Chapter 3 - Controlling the Spread of COVID-19 - Global Response Reports of a new and severe respiratory infection first started emerging from China in early December 2019. On February 11, 2020, WHO gave the new coronavirus its official name of COVID-19. Public health...

Chapter 2 - Emergency Use Authorization of a Diagnostic Test for COVID-19 Many of us want to understand what our governments are doing in response to the public health emergency presented by COVID-19. As part of the US response, on February 4th the FDA authorized...