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
https://news.joins.com/article/23749284 The Korean government had a meeting discussing whether the government should mandate people in quarantine (currently around 90,000) to wear an electronic anklet or a bracelet to track their location. The necessity of such measure, according to the article, is due to the fact that some people in quarantine left their cellphones in hotels … Read more
California is not in the clear yet, but its experience so far suggests early action is crucial. https://www.vox.com/2020/4/7/21205890/coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-new-york-california
Here are 80 pages of emails in which public health experts discuss the beginning of the pandemic and the failure of the Trump administration to respond to it.
“Experts inside and outside the government identified the threat early on and sought to raise alarms even as President Trump was moving slowly. Read some of what they had to say among themselves at critical moments.”
While we are all anxious to have everything back to “normal” when will it be safe to so? Restarting America will mean a spike in cases and deaths. When is the right time? Will our new normal ever be the same? This article from NYT Magazine asked a panel of five public health experts for … Read more
https://news.joins.com/article/23750232 2020.04.08 The article states that since an Indonesian (40-years old) did not abide to the self-quarantine standard, he/she was forcefully deported back to Indonesia. This is the first case of forced deportation in Korea due to the violation of self-quarantine. The article also adds that a Vietnamese couple who violated self-quarantine on April 4th … Read more
Recently, I have been hearing people discussing whether or not the covid-19 virus is “airborne”. Of course we know at this point that the virus can easily be spread through respiratory droplets released by coughs and sneezes, but questions are arising about possible transmission through simply breathing or talking, i.e. the virus being airborne (by … Read more
The authors estimate the probability that an outbreak is ongoing in counties where there are no cases or only low numbers of cases, showing that most of the US that is relative unaffected now (early April, 2020) will be experiencing a severe covid-19 epidemic in the near future.
Over the past few weeks, we have heard in the media how countries have differed in their responses to COVID-19. South Korea was noted for being “ahead” of the US in their successful efforts to contain the spread. However, even when the spread is contained, how fast can people go back to “normal”? On April … Read more
