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Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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COVID-19 Update 18 – Keeping in Touch

It has been quite some time since I have written to you about COVID. Like you, I was truly hoping that I would not be writing to you about COVID, wearing masks, or getting vaccinated, hoping instead to be enjoying the rest of the summer with the virus in my rear-view mirror. And while life doesn’t always turn out the way we plan, hope, or expect, there’s one thing I have learned about DHS this past year; that is—each of us, when we pull our collective spirit together—we not only survive, we thrive.

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The CIS Ombudsman's Webinar Series: 2021 Annual Report

July 14, 2021, the Office of the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman hosted a webinar highlighting its 2021 Annual Report to Congress.

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News Release: S&T Launches Series 3 of Virtual Whole-of-Government R&D Showcase

This unique four-part series highlights how S&T and its partners across government are mobilizing research and development (R&D) teams to reduce risks from natural and human-induced disasters; accelerating breakthrough discoveries; and helping the nation prepare against future threats and unknowns.

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News Release: S&T Funds Florida Small Business to Develop COVID-19 Disinfectant

DHS S&T's SVIP has awarded $105,877 in Phase 1 funding for Bloodstone Division, LLC’s development of an anti-viral disinfectant under the SVIP Emerging Needs: COVID-19 Response & Future Mitigation solicitation.

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Feature Article: A Virus or Bacteria? New Tech Rapidly Tests for COVID-19 & More

S&T is preparing for future outbreaks/pandemics by investing in a new technology that can quickly discriminate between bacterial and viral infections so that the U.S. can triage patients and plan a response without delay.

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Emerging Need: COVID-19 Response and Future Mitigation

High-level description of SVIP active projects for the Emerging Need: COVID-19 Reseponse and Future Mitigation topic.

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Respiratory Immunizations and Treatments

Employees are strongly encouraged to stay up to date with vaccines/immunizations. Immunizations and treatment are core prevention strategies to lower your risk of respiratory viruses.

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Children Ages 12 to 15 Now Eligible For the COVID-19 Vaccine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to include adolescents ages 12 to 15. This is exciting and welcome news in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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News Release: Veteran-Owned Start-Up to Develop New COVID-19 Screening Method

DHS S&T awarded $199,653 in Phase 1 funding to Farmspace Systems, LLC, a veteran-owned start-up based in Alamo, Tenn., to enhance its COVID Finder technology, a non-thermal detection COVID-19 screening method.

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News Release: Research Indicates Environment is Unlikely to Affect Transmissibility of SARS-COV-2 Variants

The deactivating effects of heat and sunlight on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are consistent across different variants of the virus, according to new research from DHS S&T.