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Jul 31
School COVID Risk Levels
As the question of how and when to reopen our nation’s schools grows more urgent every day, my colleagues and I developed a new infographic to help schools and parents. It details the risk levels of various normal school activities (riding the bus, eating lunch in the cafeteria, football practice, etc.).
We created this as a public service, so please feel free to tweet, post, email, print, or hang this infographic on your refrigerator. To download the infographic for your own use, click here or here for the Spanish K-12 index.
To check out the original risk index for everyday activities, click here.
Jun 30
COVID-19 Activity Risk Levels
With no clear direction from the federal government on how to handle the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been hard to decide what’s safe and unsafe as states begin to open up. There's no right answer; you just need to know the risks and how much risk you're willing to take. That's why Professor Saskia Popescu, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Arizona, Dr. James P. Phillips, MD, the Chief of Disaster Medicine at GWU Emergency Medicine, and I developed a COVID-19 Risk Index to help you do this, based on four key factors:
1) Enclosed space
2) Duration of interaction
3) Crowds
4) Forceful exhalation
Again, we hope this Risk Index is helpful to you as you decide what you are comfortable doing as these activities become available. We created this as a public service, so please feel free to tweet, post, e-mail, and print and hang this on your refrigerator or around your workplace. You can download the infographic here, or here for the Spanish language version
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Jun 15
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Watch the interview here. May 7, 2020.
May 6
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Apr 23
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Apr 9
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Apr 9
Dr. Emanuel talks about Coronavirus with Andrea Mitchell (MSNBC)
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Apr 9
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Apr 9
Dr. Emanuel talks about Coronavirus with Andrea Mitchell (MSNBC)
Watch the segement here. March 24, 2020. MSNBC.
Mar 24
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Read the Article. March 24, 2020. New York Times.
Mar 24
Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19 (New England Journal of Medicine)
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NEJM, March 2020.
Mar 19
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Click Here to watch Dr. Emanuel's segment with Andrea Mitchell. March 13, 2020. MSNBC.
Mar 18
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Read the Article. March 17, 2020. The New York Times.
Mar 16
How the Coronavirus May Force Doctors to Decide Who Can Live and Who Dies (New York Times)
Read the article. March 12, 2020. New York Times
Mar 3
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Read the article. March 2, 2020. Washington Post.
Mar 3
Dr. Emanuel talks about Coronavirus on Radio Times (NPR)
Click here to listen to Dr. Emanuel speaking to Marty Moss-Coane on Coronavirus. March 3, 2020.
Jan 22
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The Atlantic. January 2020. Read the article.
Sep 12 '19
Four Key Things You Should Know About Health Care (New York Times)
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