ALT Business Insider: US millennial women are now more likely to die in their late 20s and early 30s than any generation since the World War II era: report Matthew Loh Dec 11, 2023, 10:57 PM EST Photo of three smiling millennial women of color standing on a street.

ALT Axios excerpt: “The fallout: Blind spots in the nation’s disease surveillance is one of the key concerns for epidemiologists like Nuzzo, who feared the country was shifting away from testing to more vaccine development as early as spring 2021. ‘We’re going to lose our ability to track variants,’ she said. Experts say they fear it will be difficult to build back testing capacity if there’s a spike of cases in the fall. Private companies may not make enough tests or keep staffing levels without a strong commitment from the federal government experts say.”

ALT Axios excerpt continued: “Beyond tests, other areas that may go without critical supplies like PPE or ventilators as well as research on new vaccines including candidates for a universal Covid vaccine officials say. So far, Dickey said there appears to be enough PPE to go around. ‘We’re hoping that sustains is because that was obviously very scary for everybody & I’d hate to have that bubble up to the surface for something last minute because that’s obviously something you have to have a runway to keep the pipeline going.”