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Public Health Interventions, Epidemic Growth, and Regional Variation of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Outbreak in a Swiss Canton and Its Greater Regions | Annals of Internal Medicine
The emergence of new viral epidemics is a major challenge for public health, as shown by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In most Western countries, none of the global pandemics caused by respiratory viruses after 1920 have reached the severity of the 1889 and 1918 influenza pandemic outbreaks (1). Health policymakers may benefit from examining historical events to increase risk awareness and inform decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic ().
Reckoning with histories of medical racism and violence in the USA
The killing of Eric Garner in 2014 at the hands of the New York Police Department and the footage that circulated of his death after he was put in a chokehold elevated the phrase “I can't breathe” to a protest chant for those in the fight against structural racism worldwide. Its repetition by George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN, USA, in 2020 and by others in anti-racism protests amid the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened the salience of these words.
Reckoning with histories of medical racism and violence in the USA
The killing of Eric Garner in 2014 at the hands of the New York Police Department and the footage that circulated of his death after he was put in a chokehold elevated the phrase “I can't breathe” to a protest chant for those in the fight against structural racism worldwide. Its repetition by George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN, USA, in 2020 and by others in anti-racism protests amid the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened the salience of these words.
“A Menace to the Public Health” — Contact Tracing and the Limits of Persuasion | NEJM
5 References Related Articles Article Many countries have been recruiting Covid-19 contact tracers as part of a “test, track, and trace” strategy. In the United Kingdom and the United States, for example, large corps of volunteers have signed up for online classes on the concepts and methods that have served South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan throughout the pandemic.
How to Talk About Freedom During a Pandemic
Anti-stay-at-home protesters aren’t the only ones with an argument based on individual rights on their side. May 19, 2020 Historian of public health at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine An 1875 cartoon of a family enjoying time outside while smallpox and fever lurk behind them (The Cartoon Collector / Print Collector / Getty) So far, COVID-19 has killed more than 90,000 Americans—at least that's the official count.
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