The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 20.1 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 12.7 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 2.9 %
HIGHER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 104,015
U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at 84,233
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at an elevated 2,614 [are the new variants more deadly or are vaccinations increasing deaths - as deaths are not correlating with new cases or hospitalizations?>U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 11.6 % of the population
Public Health Systems Still Aren’t Ready for the Next Pandemic Many public health officials are worried about the lack of preparedness, training, testing and vaccine distributions for COVID-19 and what that could mean for the next pandemic. Michael Ollove and Christine Vestal, Stateline | February 1, 2021 | Analysis
Like public health officials everywhere, Dr. Jeffrey Duchin marvels at the miraculous production of highly effective vaccines against COVID-19 in mere months.
But Duchin, head of public health in Seattle and King County, Washington, doesn’t dwell on the only triumph of the pandemic response. Instead, he quickly pivots to the huge deficiencies plaguing the rollout of those lifesaving injections.
Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health is launching a new certificate program to train students for careers in climate change and health.
“Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the century,” says James W. Curran, dean of the Rollins School of Public Health, “and it is essential that we offer our students opportunities to develop the skills they will need to be leaders in this field.”
The new certificate in climate and health will be offered to all students enrolled in the Master of Public Health (MPH) and Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH) programs at Rollins. To receive the certificate, students will be required to complete a two-course sequence on climate and health, take two additional electives and complete a thesis or capstone on a climate-related topic.
Like public health officials everywhere, Dr. Jeffrey Duchin marvels at the miraculous production of highly effective vaccines against COVID-19 in mere months.
But Duchin, head of public health in Seattle and King County, Washington, doesn’t dwell on the only triumph of the pandemic response. Instead, he quickly pivots to the huge deficiencies plaguing the rollout of those lifesaving injections.
The lack of planning and coordination. The insufficient workforce and training. The inadequate public messaging and outreach. And the failure to create a uniform database to track inventory and equitably distribute shots.
“We’re seeing the consequences now of a complete and utter failure to ensure we have a full and robust vaccination system,” Duchin said.
Winnipeg Free Press Speiriscope By: Doug Speirs | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Friday, Jan. 22, 2021
Winnipeg Free Press
It sounds like the name of a Hollywood thriller The Hunt for Patient Zero.
The phrase patient zero has been on the minds and lips of much of the world as the search continues for the first documented human case of the COVID-19 virus that has so far claimed more than two million lives around the globe, including more than 18,000 in Canada.
According to the World Health Organization, it’s a search that may never yield an answer. We need to be careful about the use of the phrase ‘patient zero,’ which many people indicate as the first initial case, Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19, said last week. We may never find who patient zero was. What we need to do is follow the science and follow the studies.