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A medical tent has been set up outside Norwood Hospital in anticipation and preparedness for patients needing testing and treatment for COVID-19 in Norwood, Massachusetts on March 12, 2020.

Hospitals Need to Cancel Elective Procedures: This is a pandemic – No time for business as usual.

"As an anesthesiologist and medical ethicist working on the front lines of this pandemic, I’m keenly aware of the ethical dilemmas facing healthcare workers, like never seen…
A 3-D rendering of the novel coronavirus.

Highlights of Expert Panel on COVID-19 from Harvard, MIT, Mass General Hospital

Key findings of top medical researchers on coronavirus at a first-of-its-kind "virtual Grand Rounds."
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci confers with Vice President Mike Pence as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a news conference about the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic at the White House March 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. No one in the photo wears a face mask.

Explainer: National Emergency Declarations and COVID-19

A brief backgrounder on the Stafford Act and other emergency authorities President Trump has invoked to address coronavirus (COVID-19).
World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme Director Michael Ryan, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and WHO Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkhove speak at a daily press briefing on COVID-19 virus at the WHO headquaters on March 11, 2020 in Geneva.

National Security at the United Nations This Week (Mar. 7 to Mar. 13)

Editor’s Note: This is the latest in Just Security’s weekly series keeping readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,…
A passenger has his temperature checked at Changsha railway station in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province on March 10, 2020. Everyone wears face masks.

Pandemics and Human Rights

Some governments use a crisis as a pretext to infringe rights. Others retain over-broad emergency powers after the crisis subsides.
An ambulance drives by Brigham and Women's Hospital, part of it will be a coronavirus, COVID-19, testing site, in Boston, Massachusetts on March 7, 2020.

Universal Health Care is a National Security Issue

Universal health care is not just essential to our health and economic security; it is essential to our national security as well.
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