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Lessons learned in an emergency

Lessons learned in an emergency

PIK Professor Jonathan Moreno wrote about how the U.S. can apply lessons learned from the past to the coronavirus pandemic. “The country needs to reorient itself to the advantages that the U.S. military can provide in this crisis,” he wrote. “If we look at our recent history, we will find lessons that can help with tactics and strategy.”

Trump’s not a doctor. He’s only playing one on TV

Trump’s not a doctor. He’s only playing one on TV

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel wrote an op-ed about the hazards of implementing untested treatments for the novel coronavirus. “When it comes to fearsome, fatal conditions, it is human nature to try something because it should help, because it might help, because it must help, or because it couldn’t hurt,” he writes. “But often it does harm people and our quest for a real cure.”

Fourteen days. That’s the most time we have to defeat coronavirus

Fourteen days. That’s the most time we have to defeat coronavirus

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel wrote an op-ed outlining a plan to effectively confront and contain the novel coronavirus. “President Trump needs to immediately order the closing of all schools and nonessential businesses and impose a shelter-in-place policy for the entire country,” he wrote. “If these measures are complied with fully, then we may be able to lift them slowly in two to three months, when the percentage of people infected has plateaued and the number of new infections is near zero.”

CDC created COVID-19 testing criteria that masked the numbers contracting the coronavirus in U.S.

CDC created COVID-19 testing criteria that masked the numbers contracting the coronavirus in U.S.

Neil Fishman of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the spread of the novel coronavirus, saying, “If we would have had a true understanding of the extent of the disease several weeks ago, implementation of social-distancing measures could have prevented the escalation of the disease.”