Source It’s 10 pm. Do you know where your public health workforce is? These next 6 to 8 weeks are likely to represent the midnight hour of the first wave of COVID-19. Models differ, significantly, but as states begin to reopen, we know that thousands of more deaths are on the way. When this pandemic started as several outbreaks across
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by Gregory S. Schober, PhD; Silvia M. Chavez-Baray, PhD; and Eva M. Moya, PhD, LMSW The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed many local public health and health care systems and killed over 280,000 people across the world. Because there is not an available vaccine, many governments used community mitigation measures to slow the spread of infection, reduce the strain on health
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by Jay Maddock, PhD; Bita Kash, PhD; and Taylor Keys As the coronavirus continues to spread, large parts of the United States and the world have been placed under stay-at-home orders. For most everybody, staying at home and physically, not socially, distancing yourself from other people, is the best way to avoid getting infected. However, this can take a huge
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by Randall Akee, PhD The SARS-CoV-2 virus is causing widespread devastation as rates of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) grow across the world. The United States is experiencing one of the largest outbreaks with over half a million confirmed cases as of mid-April 2020. However, outbreaks on tribal lands are largely ignored by the federal government, mainstream media, and case tracking
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by Edward Baker, MD, MPH; P. K. (Ken) Keen, MA; and Roderick Gilkey, PhD In a prior column, we offered questions that leaders should be asking as they provide leadership through the challenges of the COVID pandemic. In this column, we build on the prior framework to offer guiding principles and best practices leading to concrete actions that leaders can
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Public health has undergone definition and redefinition in the US since the Union’s conception two centuries ago. There are plenty of definitions to go around. My favorite, hands down, comes from a CEA Winslow, the founder of the Yale School of Public Health and an eminent public health researcher in the last century. One hundred years ago this January, he
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by Cynthia Golembeski, MPH; Ans Irfan, MD, MPH; Brie Williams, MD, MS; and Homer Venters, MD, MPH Photographer Ron Levine took the photo of William Howard “Tex” Johnson when Johnson was 67 and serving time for snatching $24 in 1959 in Birmingham, AL. The photo is part of the “Prisoners of Age” series, which includes interviews with aging inmates and
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by Stephen Berger, MD As of April 10, 2020, thirty-one individual drugs had been suggested for the treatment of COVID-19. And as of that date, none was proven to be effective. The most contentious issue in all of this is the word “proven.” Over 330 agents are used in the field of Infectious Disease, sold under more than 29,300
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by Janelle Menard, PhD, MPH, and Elizabeth B. Pathak, PhD, MSPH The rapid spread of COVID-19 has capsized social and economic systems on a global scale, and no one is entirely spared from its reach. Much media attention has been given to the fact that children often present with much milder symptoms and rarely become seriously ill with COVID-19 when
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by Paul C. Erwin, MD, DrPH When Editor-in-Chief Lloyd Novick invited me to write a commentary, I suggested I could title this, “I Have Failed,” and then proceed to write about all the ways I have fallen short in the time of COVID-19. In his wisdom, Dr. Novick pulled me back and encouraged me to consider what we can still
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