By Aria Bendix
...We asked six experts (click here) — including scholars from Vanderbilt, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins University — to set an agenda for Biden and Harris' first day in office, should they win. Here's what they came up with.
...We asked six experts (click here) — including scholars from Vanderbilt, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins University — to set an agenda for Biden and Harris' first day in office, should they win. Here's what they came up with.
1. Give the CDC its authority back
Almost every expert mentioned the same priority: restoring the authority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is headquartered in Atlanta.
"Get it the heck out of Washington, for Pete's sake," Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told Business Insider. "Washington is politics. Atlanta CDC is nonpartisan public health."
Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, said the CDC should be able to develop plans of action that aren't clouded by fears of how things will be perceived by the White House.
"The first course of action is to restore the CDC to its place leading this response and to remove politics from the response completely," he told Business Insider. "We have the structure to deal with this. It's just that that structure has been sidelined from the very beginning."...
By permitting the reckless spread and even encouraging the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is affecting every aspect of American life. This could have all been avoided if the national defense of the USA against the potentials of global pandemics were in place rather than dismantled by the Trump White House.
Americans don't want to just survive the virus, they want to scars either external or internal from it either.
August 15, 2020
By Jamal Collier
One factor (click here) behind the Big Ten and Pac-12 decisions to postpone college football this fall was a growing concern about the connection between COVID-19 and myocarditis, a rare inflammation of the heart muscle.
Dr. Brian Hainline, the NCAA’s chief medical officer, said Thursday morning the NCAA is aware of about 12 cases of myocarditis among athletes. Indiana freshman offensive lineman Brady Feeney went to the emergency room with breathing issues and is still struggling with heart complications, according to a Facebook post from his mother....
March 14, 2020
By Rachel Rettner
Anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts (click here) are skyrocketing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study suggests.
The study, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that young adults were particularly prone to these increases.
The study researchers analyzed information from more than 5,400 U.S. adults ages 18 and older who completed an online survey in late June....
Older inmates MUST be provided separate dormitories than the general population or be released to ensure their safety.
August 14, 2020
By Meerah Powell
The Oregon Department of Corrections (click here) Friday confirmed that a second inmate has died from the coronavirus while in the agency’s custody.
Snake River Correctional Institution, a prison in Ontario, reported Wednesday to Oregon DOC that an unnamed man between the ages of 60 and 70 years old had died in the facility’s infirmary.
Oregon DOC said it postponed issuing a press release until receiving COVID-19 test results for the inmate. Those results came back positive Friday.
Like any in-custody death, the Oregon State Police have been notified, DOC said, and the Medical Examiner will determine the man’s cause of death....
This is exactly the same reason DeSantis allows a high infection and death rate in Florida; economic and profit losses. In Florida, money is far more important than human health. It is called homicide.
August 14, 2020
By Jordyn Grzelewski
Detroit - The coronavirus pandemic's toll (click here) on the city's economy will be "deep and long-lasting," with the number of jobs in the city not expected to rebound until 2023, according to a University of Michigan economic forecast released Friday.
One potential bright spot, researchers say, is that the city — due in part to several large-scale real-estate projects that remain underway — is on track for a quicker recovery than the state. Michigan is not slated to rebound to pre-pandemic employment levels until 2024, according to the forecast....
The contraction of the US economy is drastic under the Trump Administration mishandling of the USA national security.
August 13, 2020By Lauren Zumbach
Like many cab companies, (click here) Peace Taxi Association gets most of its business taking travelers to and from Chicago’s airports.
Or at least it used to. Before the coronavirus pandemic decimated air travel, owner Ali Poorian would have about 70 to 80 taxis on the road. Now, he’s down to seven or eight. Sometimes, drivers wait hours for a single passenger, he said....
