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Coverage of Mullan Institute COVID-19 Initiatives

Featured on MedPage Today, Patricia Pittman comments on travel nurses : "It's possible that hospital executives' outcry about travel industry pricing was overblown," Pittman told MedPage Today. "They are not always the best sources about what is actually happening on the ground, because they have a vested interest in constructing certain stories." Read more.

Wrote on the Washington post opinions, Mullan institute member and professor at George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health Leana S. Wen.
"BA.5 should not change how Americans think about living with covid Still, the fact that he contracted the virus despite all these precautions speaks to how contagious emerging variants are — and how difficult, if not impossible, avoiding covid-19 has become." Find full opinion here.

Washington Post contributing columnist and professor at George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health Dr. Leana S. Wen answered readers' questions on the latest BA.5 variant, summer travel, boosters, monkeypox and more. Read the transcript of the July 20 Q&A here.