A Plan to Quickly Confront and Defeat Coronavirus Without Collapsing the Economy?
What American lacks right now is a plan as we veer into one reaction to this pandemic after another.
If you haven ' t yet read the op-ed in the NT Times by David Katz of Yale University, you should.
An excerpt:
The data from South Korea, where tracking the coronavirus has been by far the best to date, indicate that as much as 99 percent
of active cases in the general population are “mild” and (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - March 22, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs
Timeline and List of U.S. Immigration Actions on COVID-19
David BierThe United States government has taken extreme actions to limit travel to the United States during the COVID-19 outbreak. Currently, the government has suspended nearly all legal immigration and travel to the United States and paused most legal immigration applications from immigrants inside the United States as well. It has reduced interior immigration enforcement, deportation court cases, and stopped deportations to three countries.Below is a list of the dates of each action that it has taken, details of the action, and their effective dates. While the government is correct to reduce unnecessary travel at this ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 19, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 Update: A Message From Concerned Physicians
This article originally appeared on the HJLuks site here.
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Source: The Health Care Blog - March 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Physicians Bryan Vartabedian Carrie Diulus coronavirus Eric Levi Ethan Weiss Howard Luks Joel Topf Nancy Yen Shipley Pandemic Source Type: blogs
Why Peak Viral Load makes temperature screening alone insufficient for COVID-19
By TONY ESTRELLA
And how South Korea and Taiwan’s approach to diagnosis and tracking is leading to positive results
By now, the sight of people wearing surgical masks, flinching at the sights and sounds of someone coughing or sneezing, governments restricting large gatherings, and sports leagues suspending or cancelling matches is familiar across the world.
Even though this newest coronavirus we now call COVID-19 is not the deadliest disease as measured by daily deaths, the concern over the outbreak is forcing urgent actions.
Daily deaths from COVID-19 compared to other diseases. Source: informationisbeautifu...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Source Type: blogs
Technology and Cooperation Help Fight the Pandemic
Chelsea FollettThe pandemic caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19) from Wuhan, China, is now a serious and global problem. And that problem has been made even worse by a culture of constant alarmism making it hard to distinguish real threats from exaggerated claims, as the well ‐known science writer Matt Ridley has pointed out. But even when faced with the genuine threat of a pandemic, there are reasons to take heart and think that humanity will rise to the challenges ahead.First, humanity has never been better prepared technologically to deal with a pandemic. We are fortunate to live in an age o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 13, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Chelsea Follett Source Type: blogs
A Letter of Support For You and ThoughtsAbout COVID19
Co-published March 13th onGeriPal andPallimedDear Hospice and Palliative Care community,We are sad we cannot be together this year at the Annual Assembly and deeply concerned about the growing risk of the novel coronavirus. We want to send you a bit of encouragement, and some thoughts on how we can take care of ourselves, our teams, and our community in the setting of this new pandemic.We have always “punched above our weight” as a field, and the secret to that has been hard work, community, and being smart.We don ’t have to tell you to work hard. You and your teams know how to do this.1) Start social distancing from...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - March 13, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Tags: covid emergency preparedness pandemic rosielle sinclair smith tatum Widera yang Source Type: blogs
A Letter of Support For You and Thoughts About COVID-19
Co-published March 13th onGeriPal andPallimedDear Hospice and Palliative Care community,We are sad we cannot be together this year at the Annual Assembly and deeply concerned about the growing risk of the novel coronavirus. We want to send you a bit of encouragement, and some thoughts on how we can take care of ourselves, our teams, and our community in the setting of this new pandemic.We have always “punched above our weight” as a field, and the secret to that has been hard work, community, and being smart.We don ’t have to tell you to work hard. You and your teams know how to do this.1) Start social distancing from...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - March 13, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Tags: covid emergency preparedness pandemic rosielle sinclair smith tatum Widera yang Source Type: blogs
There Is No Time for That
By ROMAN ZAMISHKA, MPA
Some of the most important engineering lessons were demonstrated on the tank battlefields of World War II when German Tigers faced off against Soviet T-34s.
The Tiger tank was a technical masterpiece of for its time with many features that did not appear in allied tanks until after the war. Despite its much heavier armor it was able to match the speed of lighter enemy tanks and keep up with its own light tank scouts. The armor featured almost artisanally welded interlocking plates. The ammunition featured innovative electric trigger primers and high penetration tungsten shells. The double diff...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: CORVID-19 Health Policy coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic Roman Zamishka Source Type: blogs
Death By Corona: What Are the Numbers?
This morning, we learned that actor Tom Hanks and his wife have contracted COVID-19 infection. Indeed, 43 famous persons have already been affected by the disease, including six Iranian leaders and four European soccer players. We might speculate that this reflects a single exposure event in Iran…or the fact that European athletes travel frequently in a high-incidence environment. Perhaps similar reasoning can be used to explain the striking variation in coronavirus death rates between countries.
As of March 12, 126,258 cases of COVID-19 had been reported worldwide; and 4,368 died of the disease – a case-fatal...
Source: GIDEON blog - March 12, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology Events General Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Stealing Cinderella (A True Story)
Would you risk everything for love? Even your life? In today’s podcast, Gabe interviews Mark Diehl, author of Stealing Cinderella: How I Became an International Fugitive for Love. Mark’s book is his true-life story of growing up with an emotionally unstable mother, his resulting rebellious streak and drug use, and the wild ride of his forbidden love affair with a South Korean woman. The story details the couple’s narrow escape from her rich, abusive family in a journey where they almost lost their lives.
Tune in for a true-life fairy tale that’s stranger than fiction.
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Source: World of Psychology - March 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: General Interview Motivation and Inspiration Podcast Relationships The Psych Central Show Trauma Source Type: blogs
Let Americans Test for COVID-19
Walter OlsonAfter suffering from the initial outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), China appears to have succeeded at turning around its spread through the use of highly coercive measures such as widespread home confinement of both healthy and sick persons. Can societies with more individual liberty match its success without losing their character? South Korea, a more liberal and open country, has enjoyed success at controlling the epidemic with policies that are not nearly as coercive, asAndrew Salmon at Asia Times andJosh Rogin at the Washington Post explain. (If you still doubt whether a response to th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 11, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
How to Frame the Coronavirus
At the individual level, you have many options for how to frame the coronavirus situation.
You could continue to see it as some meaningless objective event, remaining detached from assigning any meaning to it. It just is. A virus is simply doing what a virus does. And people are reacting to it as people do. It has no special personal meaning for you.
Or you could see it as some kind of spiritual sign with a very personal meaning for you.
Or you could see it as a subjective reality event within your simulation, in which case it could have personal meaning as a form of communication from the simulator. Within that s...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Health Source Type: blogs
Can the US health care system “ pull an Italy? ”
by MATTHEW HOLT
There has been a ton of analysis about COVID-19 and how bad it will get. Some like Joon Yun and Jeremy Faust say the panic is worse than the disease. Others have run the infection rate numbers and predicted that the US will run out of hospital capacity in early May and in Washington state much earlier (end of March).
But there’s no doubt that in the last week or so, sentiment has changed. This week I and 45,000 of my best friends are at home, not at HIMSS in Florida. Many big gatherings like SXSW, Comic-Con and Coachella have been cancelled. Most corporations that can are asking employees to wor...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: CORVID-19 Health Policy Italy Source Type: blogs
TWiV 590: COVID-19 and coronavirus – we have mail
The TWiV trio continues in-depth coverage of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2, including discussion on genome mutation and circulating lineages, handwashing, facemasks, cruise ship outbreaks, the South Korean situation, and much more. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 590 (76 MB .mp3, 127 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 8, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus CoV COVID-19 cruise ship genome mutation pneumonia SARS-CoV-2 vaccine viruses Wuhan Source Type: blogs
