IDSA Members Contribute Authority, Expertise as COVID-19 Pandemic Grows
As the spread of COVID-19 in the United States poses escalating challenges and new questions, IDSA members continue to contribute their expertise to media reports.
In a recent NPR article, IDSA spokesperson Andy Pavia M.D., FIDSA, discusses the decision to implement an online-only learning environment for university students amid outbreak woes.
"It's worth first thinking about people of college age; they are not at great risk of getting severely ill with the virus that causes COVID-19," Pavia told NPR. "They can act as tremendous amplifiers of the epidemic. And the behaviors that young people have in college: spending a lot of time close together, intimate contact, sharing food and drink, make the spread of viruses in that setting a pretty high likelihood."
In another COVID-19 related piece seen in USA Today, IDSA spokesperson, Angela Hewlett, M.D., FIDSA, commented on the rarely used federal quarantine imposed on the eight evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship she is currently treating and monitoring at the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
"The whole tenet of public health is temporarily giving up some personal liberties for the greater good…even with all of our technology, keeping people away from each other is still an effective way of preventing the spread of disease."
These are just two of the stories IDSA and our member spokespersons contributed to, in addition to the coverage listed below.
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- NPR: The Coronavirus Outbreak And The Challenges Of Online-Only Classes (Andrew Pavia, M.D.,FIDSA)
- Consumer Reports: You Touch Public Surfaces All Day. Here's How to Stay Safe From Coronavirus. (Amesh Adalja, M.D., FIDSA)
- USA Today: Rarely Used In Modern Times, Quarantine Laws Give Public Officials Wide-Ranging Powers (Angela Hewlett, M.D., FIDSA)
- Medscape: COVID-19: Who's Protecting the Protectors? (Thomas File, Jr., M.D., FIDSA)
- MarketWatch: Influenza Kills More People Than The Coronavirus So Everyone Is Overreacting, Right? Wrong — And Here’s Why (Amesh Adalja, M.D., FIDSA & Luis Ostrosky, M.D., FIDSA)
- Healio Primary Care: Q&A: Interim Protocols For COVID-19 In Primary Care (Elisa Choi, M.D., FIDSA)
- WebMD: Some Could Show COVID-19 Symptoms After Quarantine (Aaron Glatt, M.D., FIDSA)
- HowStuffWorks: Why Hand-washing Beats Hand Sanitizer Hands Down! (Gregory Poland, M.D., FIDSA)
- MarketWatch: ‘We’re Going To Have More Deaths.’ Coronavirus Vs. The Flu. Influenza Kills More People So Everyone Is Overreacting, Right? Wrong — Here’s Why (Amesh Adalja, M.D., FIDSA)
- Strategist (New York Magazine):How to Travel and Commute Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak, According to Experts (Aaron Glatt, M.D., FIDSA)
- Modern Healthcare: Healthcare Workers Concerned For Safety As Coronavirus Cases Rise (Amesh Adalja, M.D., FIDSA)
- SHRM: Breaking Down COVID-19 (Aaron Glatt, M.D., FIDSA)
- Medscape: Infectious Disease Docs In Short Supply Yet 'Critical' For COVID-19 Crisis (Thomas File, Jr., M.D., FIDSA)
- Al Jazeera: Coronavirus: How Prepared Is The United States? Not Very. (Carlos del Rio, M.D., FIDSA)
- Medscape: Infection Control Protects Hospital Staff From COVID-19, Study Shows. (Aaron Glatt, M.D., FIDSA)
- Columbus Dispatch: Should Events Be Canceled Due To The Coronavirus? It Depends, Experts Say.
- BuzzFeed News: Here’s What You Need To Know About Air Purifiers And Coronavirus (Aaron Glatt, M.D., FIDSA)
- TIME: Americans Are Stockpiling Cleaning Products Due to COVID-19 Fears. Do They Actually Prevent Coronavirus? (Aaron Glatt, M.D., FIDSA)
- Consumer Reports: Do You Need A Mask To Prevent Coronavirus? (Aaron Glatt, M.D., FIDSA)