EPISODE SUMMARY “Terrible diseases like smallpox, polio, yellow fever where, you know, the capital in the United States in those days, Philadelphia, in the 1700s, 10% of the population died. When you vaccinate against them, you prevent them, and they no longer are problems.” - Seth Berkley In today’s episode, co-hosts Dr. Celine Gounder and Ron Klain speak with Seth Berkley and Dr. Peter Hotez about a topic that has received a lot of attention lately-- vaccines. They discuss the processes involved in developing a vaccine for COVID-19, including when we can realistically expect a vaccine to become available to the public. They talk about the concept of herd immunity and how high vaccination rates are an essential component to this process. They also discuss the anti-vaxxer movement … [Read more...]
Keep informed by scientists. Listen to the podcast “EPIDEMIC” from Seth Berkley and Peter Hotez episode S1E25 / A COVID Vaccine.
What are the human rights considerations in the response to COVID-19?
Experts from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health offer science and evidence-based insights on the public health news of the day. The current focus is the novel coronavirus spreading around the world. In today's @PublicHealthPod, @DrJoshS speaks with @LenRubenstein about the human rights issues involved in the novel #coronavirus epidemic.🔗 https://t.co/N0vpOR0ijYhttps://t.co/MqV0OODKdD— Public Health On Call (@PublicHealthPod) March 18, 2020 … [Read more...]
Hurricane #Michael – Florida Take action.
#HurricaneMichael, seen here by #GOESEast, strengthened to a Cat. 4 storm and is now approaching the Florida Panhandle. The @NHC_Atlantic warns that life-threatening storm surge, hurricane-force winds and heavy rainfall are imminent. Latest: http://go.usa.gov/xP9RX NOAA publish his Advisory Number 15 at 4:00 AM CDT Wednesday, Oct 10th. Hurricane Michael is extremely dangerous Category 4 heading toward the Florida Panhandle... Keep reading. FEMA's text messaging program allows people to look up Emergency Shelter locations via SMS. Text SHELTER and your zip code to 43362 (4FEMA) to find an Emergency Shelter in your area. b\ Standard message and data rates apply. Follow: @femaregion4 in Twitter. If you need the text version go to: … [Read more...]
Watch Live #Google #Crisis_Response #HurricaneFlorence | Interactive Google Map w/data from NOAA, FEMA, NRL, weather.gov & more
On Sunday September 16, The official Twitter feed of the N.C. Department of Transportation — NCDOT (@NCDOT) post the following message and image: We know you're worried about property in eastern NC. -Every major route, and those around them, to the coast is flooded. -This isn't over. Water will rise for several days. -Few routes open, help keep them clear for emergency personnel. -Dangerous power lines and trees down pic.twitter.com/qf8cgd4etF — NCDOT (@NCDOT) September 16, 2018 FEMA has Hurricane Florence Rumor control page: https://www.fema.gov/florence-rumors As 11 a.m. Sunday September 16, the Advisory Number 69 of the National Hurricane Center, said that Tropical Depression Florence continues to produce widespread heavy rains over much of North Carolina and Northern South … [Read more...]
Las secuelas del Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala
Desbastadoras las imágenes de la erupción del Volcán de Fuego en Guatemala, se estima que son mas de treinta personas fallecidas en una de las ultimas tragedias naturales en este país. Para realizar Donativos a los damnificados en Guatemala, por favor llamar a los siguientes números de teléfonos de la Cruz Roja: Puedes comunicarte con nosotros vía telefónica 📞 (502) 2381-6566 o enviarnos tu reporte por WhatsApp 📲 (502) 3070-7496 las 24 horas. pic.twitter.com/jUiZS4nEzt — CruzRojaGT (@CRGuatemalteca) May 16, 2018 O visita la web oifical: https://www.cruzroja.gt/donativos/ Siempre verifiquen con su contador, antes de alguna donación la información proporcionada. … [Read more...]
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