Restructuring The Federal Response To A Pandemic
This is the third of a three-part series analyzing public health infrastructure in the United States. Part one can be found here and part two can be found here. This finale analyzes the laws underlying why public health was left to the …
Vaccine Transporters Feel Unprepared For The Distributive Effort Ahead
As pharmaceutical companies conduct phase 3 vaccine trials, air cargo transporters are cautious about the logistics involved in the mass distribution of a Covid-19 vaccine. A recent survey found that less than 30% of air cargo companies felt prepared for the job …
Underfunding Public Health Harms Americans Beyond Covid-19
This is the second of a three-part series analyzing public health infrastructure in the United States. Part one can be found here. This midsection analyzes how the public health system is incapable of keeping people healthy even outside the pandemic. Public health …
How US Public Health Failed You And Me
This is the first of a three part series analyzing public health infrastructure in the United States. This introduction analyzes the governing bodies of US public health and why they are not getting the job done. Covid-19 exposed the failures of our …
The Case For Safer Emergency Use Authorizations
In emergency situations such as Covid-19, emergency use authorizations (EUA) are vital and necessary. There needs to be effective treatments and vaccines available to stop the spread of this virus. The failures like hydroxychloroquine show that the EUA process must be robust …
Herd Immunity: A Reckless and Ineffective Strategy
A White House medical adviser is promoting a “herd immunity” strategy to battle Covid-19. This would involve allowing Sars-CoV-2 to infect a majority of the population under a “benign neglect” strategy as the government would do little to stop it. This strategy would build …
Protecting Pregnant Women From Covid-19
Many months into the pandemic, we’re beginning to learn more—and in more detail—about how the Covid-19 is disrupting the health and wellbeing of specific populations. Yet for pregnant women and their unborn children, such information has been inconsistent, inconclusive, and altogether lacking. In late …
Introduction to the COVID-19: Learning Diary from India
ACCESS Health India has developed a learning diary which records India’s response to COVID-19 along with its understanding of the virus. The aim of the diary is to enable tracing of legislative, judicial, and social response to the epidemic at a country …
Introduction to the COVID – 19: Learning Diary from India
In December 2019, an acute respiratory viral infection was first identified in Wuhan city in China. Ever since then the disease has infected over 4.9 million people, killed over 320,000, and brought life to a standstill in several countries.[1] It has forced …
India’s Covid-19 Testing Capacity Must Grow by a Factor of 10: Here’s How that Can Happen
India’s testing capacity for Covid-19 is extremely insufficient to withstand the size of the outbreak. Many experts believe that a tenfold increase in the country’s testing rate is necessary to keep positivity rates below 10 percent, as recommended by the World Health …