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William A. Haseltine
By William A. Haseltine - May 17,2023
FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT — President Joe Biden’s administration has officially ended the national health emergency in the United States, allowing the remaining pandemic restrictions to expire on May 11.
By William A. Haseltine - Apr 15,2023
FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT — Although COVID-19 restrictions are rapidly fading around the world, we are still reeling from the impact of the past three years.
By William A. Haseltine - Mar 18,2023
FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT — We have made extraordinary progress in our fight against the COVID-19 pandemic since the dark days of 2020. Yet, in many ways, we are back to square one.
By William A. Haseltine - Jan 19,2023
FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT — After three long years, the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down. Unfortunately, public resistance and fatigue toward COVID-19 interventions and restrictions are at an all-time high.
By William A. Haseltine - Sep 12,2022
FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT — With COVID-19 still an ever-present threat and monkeypox cases rising alongside existing chronic epidemics, building strong, responsive public-health systems has never been more important.
By William A. Haseltine - Aug 30,2022
FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CT — As the director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Rochelle Walensky, recently acknowledged, poor public-health communication and messaging throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has damaged the public”s trust in health agencies and institut
By William A. Haseltine - Aug 20,2022
FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CT — With COVID-19 still an ever-present threat and monkeypox cases rising alongside existing chronic health epidemics, building strong, responsive public health systems has never been more important.
By William A. Haseltine - Jun 11,2022
BOSTON — Once again, COVID-19 is rampaging unchecked through the US population, because there are no longer any public-health measures in place to protect adequately against infection.
By William A. Haseltine - Mar 02,2022
BOSTON — It is now well known that SARS-CoV-2 can mutate to evade vaccine protection against infection. The Omicron variants — BA.1, B1.1 and BA.2 — can infect those who were previously infected by other variants, even when vaccinated.
By William A. Haseltine - Dec 07,2021
BOSTON — As yet another new SARS-CoV-2 variant emerges and begins to spread — one with a worryingly large set of mutations that may make the virus more capable of evading our immune defences, we are all being forced to reassess the strategies we have come to rely on for protectio