The Biden administration is releasing a “roadmap” for maintaining government defenses against infectious diseases, just as President-elect Donald Trump pledges to dismantle some of them.

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)NEW YORK The city that never sleeps had a curfew for much of last week. But after three bleak months, New York City will try to turn a page when it begins reopening Monday after getting hit first by the coronavirus, then an outpouring of rage over racism and police brutality. With the virus in check at least for now New York is easing restrictions that shut down schools, businesses and much of city life in March. All eyes will be on New York this next couple of months, said Bowles, executive director of the Center for an Urban Future. The city now has to prove that it really knows what its doing, that it can still be a dense city like New York and yet figure this out.Of course, New York City has had to prove itself before after its population decline and fiscal crisis in the 1970s, after its 1980s-90s crime peak, after 9/11.

(CNN) - Researchers found evidence of what might cause acute flaccid myelitis, known as AFM, a rare polio-like illness that affects children. Since the first cases were documented in 2012, scientists have debated how children get AFM, which can cause weakness and paralysis. Until recently, evidence of a virus was only circumstantial and couldn't be found in 98% of AFM patients who had their spinal fluid tested, according to the study. We think finding antibodies against enterovirus in the spinal fluid of AFM patients means the virus really does go to the spinal cord. A study published in August in the journal mBio used another method and found antibodies to enteroviruses in 11 of 14 AFM patients.