What Students Are Saying About Living Through a Pandemic.
As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic intensifies, shortages of ventilators have occurred in Italy and are likely imminent in parts of the US. In ordinary clinical circumstances, all patients in need of mechanical ventilation because of potentially-reversible conditions receive it, unless they or their surrogates decline. However, there are mounting concerns in many countries.
Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. Updated at 7:43 p.m. on Feb. 25, 2020. In May 1997, a 3-year-old boy.
The pandemic is a painting on a canvas so big you can’t step back far enough to even see what’s been rendered. One evening around twilight I took the puppy out for his fortieth bathroom break of the day. I walked about 10 yards into the pasture and turned my head toward the house. It was lit up from the inside, a tableau of Americana perfection against the rolling fields and streaks of.
We are living in a moment when two major global threats, a worldwide pandemic and the climate crisis, have suddenly converged. In a matter of months COVID-19 has taken the world by storm.
Fake News and Pandemics. When the next pandemic strikes, we'll be fighting it on two fronts. The first is the one you immediately think about: understanding the disease, researching a cure and inoculating the population. The second is new, and one you might not have thought much about: fighting the deluge of rumors, misinformation and flat-out lies that will appear on the internet. The second.
Despite the outbreak of COVID-19, people aren’t staying indoors. That makes life more difficult for the elderly and the sick. Social distancing and limiting trips to essentials helps those who.
A global catastrophic risk is a hypothetical future event which could damage human well-being on a global scale, even endangering or destroying modern civilization. An event that could cause human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's potential is known as an existential risk. Potential global catastrophic risks include anthropogenic risks, caused by humans (technology.