The category I want to focus on is how pandemics are affecting children. For this week’s post, I want to focus on the education aspect and how schools are transitioning to online learning. This will be Part 1 of 2 focusing on education. For this first part, this will primarily focus on a first-hand account of how … Read more
In New York City’s hospitals, medical personnel are running short of supplies, falling ill, and dying. In China and Italy, medical personnel, and especially doctors, constitute a large percentage of coronavirus cases. The same is beginning in the United States. In Queens, “patients are sometimes dying before they can be moved into beds.” In other … Read more
In this article, Isaac Chotiner interviews Richard Epstein about his essay, “Coronavirus Perspective,” that claims most epidemiological models of the covid-19 pandemic are mistaken. Chotiner teases out Epstein’s assumptions on which he bases his thinking, and inserts quotations from experts in the fields about which Epstein makes mistaken claims. https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-contrarian-coronavirus-theory-that-informed-the-trump-administration
As Wesleyan University decided to turn into distance learning due to the increasing intensity of the situation during Spring Break, many students decided to return to their homes in fear of a blockade of borders. I remember how my parents were worried that I may not be able to go back to Korea as the … Read more
In this article, the legal scholar Richard Epstein takes a dip in epidemiology, and creates what can be called disinformation at best. This it the “theory” that conservatives have touted, saying that social distancing is unnecessary. https://www.hoover.org/research/coronavirus-isnt-pandemic
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2005953?query=featured_home
This short piece explains how the now-famous Johns Hopkins site for tracking the pandemic (https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6) was created and how it is constantly updated. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30120-1/fulltext
School and workplace closures have reduced the number of COVID-19 cases and substantially delayed the epidemic peak in Wuhan, China. Now – new modelling research, published in The Lancet Public Health journal, suggests that extending these physical distancing measures enforced in Wuhan until April, rather than March, would likely delay a second wave of cases until later … Read more
An overview of current recommendations for controlling covid-19, with links to related papers and materials. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/29/coronavirus-strategy-economy-plan/?utm_source=quintype
The former Director of the CDC explains a coordinated strategy for controlling the covid-19 pandemic. https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/489887-well-lose-world-war-c-against-the-coronavirus-if-we-dont-fight-the-right
