How Trump's "makeshift" COVID-19 response has worsened the border crisis; women health officials are disproportionately facing targeted, personal, crude and sexualized attacks; this week's health and wellness news in The Weekly Pulse.

*"Today at Ms."** | **July 21, 2020*

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*How Trump's "Makeshift" COVID-19 Response Worsened the Border Crisis [ [link removed] ]*

BY IRASEMA CORONADO, EVA MOYA & STEVE MUMME | "Along both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border, the sense of crisis is palpable. The COVID-19 pandemic is hammering the entire necklace of cities and towns strung along the boundary-from Tijuana to Matamoros, San Diego to Brownsville, with El Paso and Ciudad Juarez in between."

*We Are Losing Good Women Public Health Officials to Misogyny [ [link removed] ]*

BY VIOLET RAWLINGS | Women working in the public health field are disproportionately facing targeted, personal, crude and sexualized attacks.

*The Weekly Pulse: Some Good Health News (Finally!) [ [link removed] ]*

BY CORINNE AHRENS & GISELLE HENGST | In this edition of "The Weekly Pulse", we begin with some pandemic optimism; provide the most recent updates on COVID-19 and its effects on workers; and break down reproductive wins and attacks. _________________________________________

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