Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Senior Scholar Jennifer Nuzzo discusses COVID risks associated with crowd interactions and contact, concerns about the AstraZeneca Plc vaccine, and states removing mask mandates.

In the past seven days, the U.S. reported slightly more than 65,000 new COVID-19 cases per day on average, a jump of 20% from two weeks earlier. 

Friday March 26, 2021 12:00-12:30 ET Join experts from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center (CRC) at 12pm ET on Fridays for timely, accessible updates on the state of the pandemic and the public health response.

Testing might be more important now than ever, and new testing technology and government funding and initiatives are making getting tested faster, easier, and cheaper than it’s ever been.

With case numbers still high, coronavirus testing remains essential, experts say, but the goals and approach will change as vaccines roll out.

A year after the pandemic shut down the country, a growing number of infectious disease experts, epidemiologists, public health officials and others have started to entertain the idea that the worst of the pandemic may be over for the United States.

The U.S. needs to ramp up the use of rapid COVID-19 testing in order to curb the pandemic and prepare for reopening.

The Biden administration is trying to transform the United States’ COVID-19 testing system by regularly screening millions of Americans.

Experts shared their expectations for summer 2021 throughout the country based on how the pandemic is going right now.

As more U.S. residents receive their COVID-19 vaccinations, testing for the virus has plummeted, dropping by a third in two months.

Friday March 19, 2021 12:00-12:30 ET Join experts from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center (CRC) at 12pm ET on Fridays for timely, accessible updates on the state of the pandemic and the public health response.

Friday March 12, 2021 12:00-12:30 ET Join experts from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center (CRC) at 12pm ET on Fridays for timely, accessible updates on the state of the pandemic and the public health response.