" CORONAVIRUS "
⧭Name : Soumyadip Mondal
⧭Future institute of engineering and Management
⧭2nd sem, 1st year
⧭Dept-IT
⧭Makaut Roll- 14800219029
⧭Future institute of engineering and Management
⧭2nd sem, 1st year
⧭Dept-IT
⧭Makaut Roll- 14800219029
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#stay_home
#stay_safe
#social_distancing
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বাড়িতে থাকুন সুস্থ থাকুন 😊😊😊❤❤❤🌹🌹🌹🌹
If you felling temperature or others plz consulted from your nearest hospital 🙏
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I took the pledge to maintain all the routine to fight back against #covid_19 and help to spread the social awareness to other people to do so.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Some developing stories…
- Case count: There are over 1 million confirmed cases in the U.S. and over 3.2 million confirmed cases worldwide. There are surely more.
- Over half of U.S. states are reopening businesses in some way: Experts remain concerned that efforts at preventing spread are not consistent.
- Global poverty on the rise: The World Bank says that for the first time since 1998, global poverty rates will increase. The New York Times reports that by the end of 2020, 8% of the world’s population “could be pushed into destitution”.
- The World Health Organization is “urgently” investigating a potential link between Covid-19 and a syndrome in kids: The WHO is looking into cases of Kawasaki syndrome, an illness characterized by fevers, rashes, and swelling in kids under age 5. (Read more).
- The FDA plans to allow emergency use of remdesivir: This comes after a trial of the experimental drug showed it shortened recovery time.
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The coronavirus pandemic is a massive health crisis, and yet thousands of health care workers are losing their jobs. Altarum, a nonprofit research and consulting firm, reported that 43,000 health care jobs were lost in March — the greatest loss seen in three decades. Most of the layoffs have occurred for people working in non-hospital settings, like private practice doctor and dentist offices. (Vox has a good outline of hospital systems that have undergone layoffs and furloughs.)
“Physician private practices are an often overlooked and underappreciated causality of Covid-19,” says Dr. Jeff Livingston, the CEO of Macarthur Medical Center, which specializes in obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) in Irvington, Texas. “Independent practices function like all service industry businesses. Revenue generated by services rendered is used to pay the overhead. This includes physician salaries, but also rent, utilities, staff salaries, equipment leases, vaccines, and supplies.”
With few people coming in for routine evaluations and a ban on elective procedures, clinics can face sharp revenue declines. Livingston, who wrote a detailed feature on the issue that’s worth a read, says a major problem is that the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in the CARES Act included no special provisions for medical professionals. Hospitals were provided support, but other medical groups were not.
“Fortunately, 94% of our physicians were willing to take a draconian, temporary pay cut allowing us to maintain all of our 132 employees,” he says of his practice, adding that OB/GYNs need to maintain a full staff for labor and delivery.
Others are not so lucky. Private practices are furloughing large numbers of staff after failing to secure small-business loans. One report from HealthLandscape and the American Academy of Family Physicians estimates that 60,000 family practices will close or significantly scale back, and 800,000 of their employees will be laid off, furloughed, or have their hours reduced due to a decline in business during the coronavirus pandemic.
One strategy suggested by Livingston is to replicate the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Accelerated Advanced payment system. In response to the outbreak, CMS expanded this system, which allows providers to request up to 100% of the Medicare payment amount for a three-month period. “Private third-party payers can replicate this process for all providers throughout the country,” he wrote recently. “This one step triggers a cash infusion allowing doctors to keep the doors open and will enable us to serve those in need.”
Here are a few articles worth reading for more information.
Coronavirus terms you need to know. Writer Robert Roy Britt compiled a glossary of words and terms that could use a little defining to improve understanding of the virus, the disease, and the scientific analysis and mainstream reporting of it.
- Contact tracing: Finding people who came in contact with an infected person and letting them know they may have been exposed. Scientists say this will be one of several crucial tasks needed to inform where, when, and how to restart the economy.
- False positive: A conclusion that something is true when it is not, such as results indicating a drug works when in fact it doesn’t, or that a person has a disease when they don’t. A false negative, naturally, happens when something is not detected when it’s in fact there. These errors or oversights can occur due to faulty tests, inadequate data or bad analysis.
- R0: Pronounced “R naught,” the R0 is a “reproduction number” for a disease, signifying the average number of cases each infected person will cause. It’s one factor in determining the potential spreadability of a disease.
Read the full glossary below.
“We’re losing the war on coronavirus — and our country.” Gregg Gonsalves, a global health activist, an epidemiologist, and assistant professor at Yale School of Public Health writes an op-ed for GEN about the damage of the federal response to Covid-19 on the nation.
Georgia. Florida. Texas. Tennessee. All these states began to reopen, while others laid out plans to reopen in the near future and scale back social distancing, without testing in place, regardless of the consequences. On April 30, federal social distancing guidelines expired. The president has no plans to renew them. Instead, those working toward the president’s reelection have been stoking more and more anti-social distancing, pro-coronavirus-spread protests.You don’t need mathematical models to predict what happens when you relax social distancing before you get the epidemic under control or understand the extent of the problems you face. Doing so will make things worse. No expert will tell you differently.
Read the full essay below.
Families are grieving the loss of loved ones to Covid-19, and they are unable to celebrate them in the ways they want to.
“My family and I would have loved to send off our beloved Mother Minnie Head in a big beautiful way. This virus has taken that from us.”
Read more below.
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