Pandemic

Afghanistan
Conflict & COVID
With major protracted wars, bombing of healthcare facilities, killing health personnel and a pandemic is the last thing that a country desire.
Philippines
Better Days to Heal
Telemedicine has not only helped coordinate treatments for patients but also offered a way to offer encouragement and hope.
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Italy
Indignities to the Dead
Decree n. 648 included restrictive interventions on public Holy Masses and funerals so the dead cannot be buried in their personal clothes.
Brazil
Nurses & Sistema Unico De Saude
Brazil alone accounts for 38% of health professionals deaths worldwide.
Colombia
Coronavirus Infodemic
There is an urgent need to fight the wrong information, which is advancing even faster than the pandemic.
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South Korea
Dedicated COVID Hospitals
Lessons learned from the 2015 MERS outbreak were applied to contain the spread of COVID-19. 
South Africa
Spirituality During COVID
The COVID experience has caused us to reflect on quality of life, health and well-being and, just as important, end of life. 
Germany
Surgical Distancing
A bottleneck in the near future will be the intensive care capacity for elective surgery patients. 
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India
Invention, Innovation, & Imitation
The lockdown period provided the most valuable resource to organizations, institutions, individual professionals - time.
The Past is Never Dead
Measles Epidemic 300 Years Ago​​​​​
It is worth recalling what epidemics were like before vaccines.
Infectious Disease Threats
​Emerging Vector-borne Viruses​​​​
​​​Discovery of three highly pathogenic viruses in China during the past 5 years shows need of a strategy.
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Coronavirus Timeline
How Congress Ignored The Warnings
​If Congress is happy they dragged the country down by impeaching an innocent man, then they must be happier that China engineered the coronavirus pandemic to kill his presidency off.
Hand Hygiene & Nurses
Why it is Important
The simple activity of frequent handwashing has the potential to save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention. 
Debugging Hands
How About Hand Hygiene Surveillance?
​​​75,000 patients per year with Healthcare Associated Infections die during hospitalizations.
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Biofilm
How CLABSI Happen
​Bloodstream device infections costs more than a billion dollars annually to treat.
Think Negative
Gram Negative Bacteria
​As the Chipotle restaurant chain experienced in 2016, E. coli landed 21 people in the hospital.
Congressional Brinkmanship
How Congress Enabled The Pandemic
​While Congress Conducted a Sham Impeachment Coup d'état that weakened America, the Communists of China Orchestrated the Coup de Grâce to kill off Americans.
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Pandamonium In The USA
How Obama-Biden Neglected Warning
2015, “the U.S. would need approximately 35,000 to 60,500 additional ventilators, averting a pandemic total 178,000 to 308,000 deaths."