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4Īn epidemiology team at Imperial College projected that the best campaign in mitigation-flattening the plotted curve of accumulating cases by quarantining detected cases and socially distancing the elderly-would still leave the United States with 1.1 million dead and a case burden eight times the country’s total critical care beds. It has also announced a border crackdown as a public health intervention while the virus rages on ill-addressed inside the country. administration meanwhile continues to outbid individual states for basic medical equipment that it refused to purchase for them in the first place. 2 Nurses, to whom the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) has appallingly recommended using bandanas and scarves as masks, have already declared that “the system is doomed.” 3 The outbreak is not slated to peak stateside until May and already health care workers and hospital visitors are fist fighting over access to the dwindling supply of personal protection equipment. In the United States, a bellwether if only as the richest country in the history of the world, the near future looks bleak. Latin America and Africa are only now beginning to accumulate cases, some countries preparing better than others. Europe, especially Italy and Spain, but increasingly other countries, already bends under the weight of deaths still early in the outbreak. As of late March, whole cities are sheltered in place and, one by one, hospitals are lighting up in medical gridlock brought about by surges in patients.Ĭhina, its initial outbreak in contraction, presently breathes easier. CalculationĬOVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the second severe acute respiratory syndrome virus since 2002, is now officially a pandemic. They appreciate perspicacious comments from Kenichi Okamoto. Rodrick Wallace is a research scientist in the Division of Epidemiology of the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University. Luis Fernando Chaves is a disease ecologist and was a Senior Researcher at the Costa Rican Institute for Research and Education on Nutrition and Health in Tres Rios, Costa Rica.

Alex Liebman is a PhD student in human geography at Rutgers University, with a MSc in agronomy from the University of Minnesota. Rob Wallace is an evolutionary epidemiologist who has consulted with the Food and Agriculture Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Cities of the global south reader goldman