Even as the Ebola outbreak still raged in West Africa, congressional watchdogs began investigating how well-prepared U.S. airports and airlines were to deal with a rapidly spreading disease.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, citing “alarming levels of spread and severity” and “the alarming level of inaction.”
For many years, Pinar Keskinocak has studied how pandemics spread through the nation, how they overburden health care systems, and how they diminish the supply of medications, thus worsening the pandemic. All this also spins off additional medical crises. She also has recommendations and detailed models on beating pandemics, which will take a massive national effort for COVID-19.
For many years, Pinar Keskinocak has studied how pandemics spread through the nation, how they overburden health care systems, and how they diminish the supply of medications, thus worsening the pandemic. All this also spins off additional medical crises. She also has recommendations and detailed models on beating pandemics, which will take a massive national effort for COVID-19.
To help people address the coronavirus outbreak with facts, not fear, WRAL News gets answers to coronavirus questions from Julie Swann, an N.C. State University professor whose research covers the spread of influenza pandemics, access to health care and disruption of humanitarian supply chains, and Lyn Fairchild Hawks, director for curriculum and instruction for distance learning with the Duke University Talent Identification Program.
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