https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7118606 This article discusses the impact that COVID-19 has had on cancer patients and cancer research. People with cancer are at a higher risk for the disease, and are less likely to continue to be treated for cancer if they contract COVID-19, as that becomes the focus. The closure of universities and the shift of … Read more
Earlier this week, Denmark became the first country in Europe to begin to lift its restrictions regarding the pandemic. After being the first country in Europe to shut down and close borders, and with their decreasing number of Covid-19 cases, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced that students will return to school. Younger students, through fifth … Read more
This article discusses how food pantries are having to serve far more people than ever before. Many food pantries are seeing a decrease in volunteers and donations making this pandemic the “perfect storm.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/the-price-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Magazine_042020&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bea0ba73f92a4046952fe28&cndid=16946854&hasha=3c0d3dd16a7e26d674715f5acb400c8f&hashb=6aab2f3b33f68f0c504d1cefe52f50e3ea133c18&hashc=0dea58d5a2c69bedb496f68872f98c6bd93f8c98e94666a85f5fa8a4f79030ca&esrc=auto_auth_de&utm_term=TNY_Magazine
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/30/what-our-contagion-fables-are-really-about?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Magazine_032320&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bea0ba73f92a4046952fe28&cndid=16946854&esrc=auto_auth_de&mbid=CRMNYR062419&utm_term=TNY_Magazine
This article discusses how the medical sector in the United States underwent the largest jobless in a month during the initial coronavirus outbreak because they had to halt non-life threatening procedures. However, hospitals are beginning to resume non-life threatening surgical procedures. https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-aim-to-resume-procedures-postponed-by-coronavirus-11587568784?mod=hp_lead_pos6
This article discusses how coronavirus deaths in nursing homes have increased drastically over the past few weeks. Elderly people are especially susceptible to death from coronavirus and nursing homes have become ground zero for these fatalities. https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-deaths-in-u-s-nursing-long-term-care-facilities-top-10-000-11587586237?mod=hp_lead_pos1
This is a collection of photo essays from different photographers around the country, curated/produced by the New York Times. “In this unnatural state of isolation,” the subheading reads, “photographers show us the things that bind.” Almost all of the photos are taken within the confines of the photographers’ homes; kids run around, older relatives appear, … Read more
The New York Times podcast, The Daily, released a podcast on April 15th entitled “24 Hours Inside a Brooklyn Hospital”. The reporter had been observing The Brooklyn Hospital center in NYC for a few weeks as the pandemic really took off. Dr.Josh Rosenberg, the attending physician in the ICU at the hospital is the primary … Read more
This article on how Democrats are politicizing the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis features research by the Wesleyan Media Project and insight from Professor Erika Franklin Fowler.
