Ground-Up Organizing of Covid-19 Control: The Approach of Partners in Health

Partners in Health is an organization that brings health care and sustainable health infrastructure to disadvantaged communities around the globe. Now, it is turning its focus not just outward, but also inward. PiH is suggesting how we can help organize our communities to stop Covid-19.

Chicago’s Rush Medical Center – Prepared for a Pandemic

Employees at the Rush University Medical Center say that they are prepared in order to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The building in which they work in, was a $654 million dollar project began soon after the 9/11 attacks, opened in 2012 and is outfitted to handle large influxes of pateints in a short window … Read more

John Krasinski “Some Good News” Show Trending on Youtube

In John Krasinski’s new short show series called SGN, short for Some Good News, he shares uplifting news, comedy, and light conversation with viewers in effort to keep people positive and comforted during quarantine. This serves as just one example of new emerging forms of News Media in response to COVID-19’s impacts on individuals social … Read more

Every hotspot has ‘its own curve’: How coronavirus cases are growing around the United States

This is a link to a CNN article that explains the individualistic responses from a state by state basis and how different legislation shows different results in the ‘curves’ that we see following the progress of each country/state/province. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/health/coronavirus-state-hotspots/index.html

Vozzella, “At Va. facility where virus killed 40, doctor blames society’s willingness to ‘warehouse’ elders,” Washington Post, April 11,2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/at-va-facility-where-virus-kills-40-doctor-blames-societys-willing-to-warehouse-elders/2020/04/10/afd329d4-7b85-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html