People are hungry for more and more data about the pandemic. It’s not that they are trained on how to use it. It’s just that they want to have some sort of control over the situation. They need just a little more faith in the professionals.
Tag: Pandemic
The White House Knew
There were plenty of warnings that the Federal Executive was not willing to be prepared for the pandemic. Lots of warnings were ignored. So here we are.
The Pandemics You Can Try to Stop
So we didn’t stop the pandemic this time. Can we stop it next time? Can we stop an epidemic of anything anymore? What about the non-communicable diseases? How about stopping those epidemics of obesity or opioid overdose? Can politics ever stop getting in the way? Am I asking too many questions?
The Panic People Will Have
It’s interesting to see what people are doing in light of this coronavirus pandemic. How far will it go? And what will I need to do?
The Big One?
This novel coronavirus pandemic is my third pandemic as a human being (after the HIV and the 2009 H1N1 Influenza pandemics). Is it the big one? Not really. At least I don’t think so.
Days of a pandemic
I found these pictures in one of my hard drives today. They’re from the very early days of the 2009 influenza pandemic. I was the influenza surveillance coordinator at the state health department at the time. I decided that I was going to document as much of those days as I could. I didn’t have a good camera or good phone with a good camera. But I managed to take these candid shots. Enjoy…
Deputy Health Secretary Frances Burman during a press conference. Gov. O’Malley next to her
Deputy Health Secretary and Health Secretary John Colmers in the EOC
Left to right: Dr. Wilson, State Epidemiologist Dr. David Blythe, and an ID doctor form Hopkins whose name I forget
Gov. O’Malley and Deputy Health Secretary
Listening to a presentation on H1N1
Gov. O’Malley press conference
Strategy whiteboard notes
Administrators talking about apples
Activities at the emergency operations center
Preparing for a press conference
Press conference by Sec. Colmers
“Flu Fighter” badges from the public relations office to promote influenza vaccination
Meeting of ALL the epidemiologists to plan a strategy
Gov. Martin O’Malley about to address the public
Two of my colleagues running a race while news started coming in by our phones that H1N1 had risen
Gift from local health departments to us at the state
Meeting of local health officers to strategize response
Not that I’m one to hold a grude
A few years ago, I used to write for Examiner.com. I wrote about public health and epidemiology, and I was paid one penny per click. That is, for each new and unique person that visited my page there, I got paid one whole cent. One whole cent! Anyway, I stopped writing for them because the leadership began to hire writers…
