Strike team

Nursing home strike teams were a highly touted COVID-19 intervention, but lingering questions about their efficacy point to changes that could improve future emergency responses, a new study finds.

The initiative will allow states and other U.S. jurisdictions to “staff, train and deploy” strike teams to help long-term care operations with known or suspected COVID-19 infections, CDC says.

Over the last few months, one phrase seems to have fallen out of favor when it comes to the virus that causes COVID-19. When was the last time you heard someone refer to it as the “novel coronavirus”?...