In the latest bid to plug gaps in public health infrastructure being ceded by the federal government, two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report — often called “the voice of the CDC.”

The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will begin publishing a new journal called “Public Health Alerts” in the coming month, CIDRAP director Michael Osterholm announced at the IDWeek conference on Sunday.

Public Health Alerts “will basically serve to be a way to convey the information that once was shared in the MMWR with all of us in a very timely way,” he said at the opening plenary of the conference of infectious disease specialists,

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