We're celebrating #ChildrensDay by launching a series on #ChildHealth. Join the conversation/share our life-course perspective on the whole child! 👶🤰Moving beyond survival. https://t.co/7U5VqbHZVE
Virginia was just approved by @fema to receive three @Battelle Critical Care Decontamination Systems™––each system can sterilize up to 80,000 units of PPE per day for reuse.
This decontamination service will be provided at no cost to health care providers and first responders.
.@DrAmyActon: I know it is hard to understand #COVID19 since we can't see it, but we know that 1% of our population is carrying this virus today -- that's over 100,000 people.
So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!
Italy has banned weddings and funerals for 16 million people. Japan has closed schools for a month. France and Iraq have banned public gatherings. The U.N. has canceled all physical meetings to address climate change. Americans are uncertain what to do about Coachella.
I see a lot of people being like “I would survive the Coronavirus. I’m taking my chances.”
The way I see it, yeah. I’d survive it. But I might carry it to someone who wouldn’t. And that, folks, is the problem.
The locust plague in East Africa is a disaster that eclipses all others, according to the U.N., and countries short on resources are racing against time to fight it https://t.co/yRW0ou86yg
Taiwan did something smart when COVID started breaking
1) They put limits on mask purchases; you can get three a day
2) They went to manufacturers and said, we will fund what you need to expand production... and in exchange, for X amount of time we get *everything you make*
Tomorrow, I’m introducing a plan that takes every dime Donald Trump is spending on his wall, and diverting it to fighting the coronavirus. #CNNTownHall
The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of designating lynching a federal hate crime. The bill was approved by 410 lawmakers, only four voted against