What To Make Of It And What To Learn From It
You would have to be hiding under a rock to not have heard everything about the Coronavirus. 5 a.m.: The coronavirus pandemic has people cooped up and anxious. The first question to ask, then, is if there is any testing data for a given country. While millions of people are under orders to stay home amid the coronavirus pandemic, water is sitting in the pipes of empty office buildings and gyms, getting old and potentially dangerous.
Gregg Gonsalves, a Yale epidemiologist who's tracked outbreaks for decades, argued that it's wrong to single out just a few decisions that weakened the U.S. response to Covid-19, saying instead that years of failure to act on the lessons of the past by strengthening public health — combined with Trump's uniquely disruptive approach — teed up this year's fragmented response.
The country has also recorded more than 66,000 deaths. The World Health Organization (WHO) said cutting off a city as large as Wuhan is "unprecedented in public health history." 12 and praised China for its incredible commitment to isolate the virus and minimize the spread to other countries.
Europe became the focal point of the pandemic in early March when the disease spread rapidly across the continent. This is also true in the case of COVID-19: the disease can lead to other health problems such as pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Any easing of Indiana's statewide stay-at-home order won't limit the authority of city or county officials from imposing tighter restrictions in their attempts to slow the coronavirus that is blamed in the deaths of at least 1,000 people across the state, the governor said.
Since the coronavirus that causes MERS began circulating in humans in 2012, it has infected only about 2,500 people, mostly in and around the Arabian Peninsula. Our current knowledge of COVID-19 testing - and more importantly of the pandemic itself - would be greatly improved if all countries were able to report all the testing data available to them in the way shown by the best examples.
Modern preparedness efforts were birthed under the Bush administration, which inherited some pandemic planning from the Clinton administration but had done relatively little on the issue during its first coronavirus eight months in office — even abolishing the White House office on global health and security.