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LeBlanc Chuck Finder, executive director of media relations at Washington University in St. Louis, has no formal medical training. But his decades of experiences as a journalist prepared him well for his role as a volunteer COVID-19 case investigator for Habif Health and Wellness Center.  “It can feel like an intrusive process, but it’s so important to get the complete picture,” said Finder, a former reporter and editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “It wasn’t enough to ask, ‘So who are your contacts?’ You need to really probe — how close were you, how long were you togeth...

In early December 2019, I sat in a conference room at the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, listening to its director, Dr. Robert Redfield, answer a question: Is America ready for another major infectious disease like Ebola or the Zika virus?   Redfield's response reiterated what most public health experts knew, but coming from him, it was jarring. "It’s not a secret,” he said. “Our nation is not prepared for a flu pandemic.”   He was certain such a pandemic would one day arrive, and although he couldn't foresee when, he knew it would be bad: “It’s goi...