The new coronavirus has infected more than 1.3 million people according to Johns Hopkins University.
In addition, we need to be ready to help the Global South, whose public health infrastructure and access to health care is much weaker than ours is.As my father used to say,"the rules are there for a reason"—the reason now is no less than protecting millions of lives.That it's too little too late; that we were woefully unprepared both medically and ethically for the ravages of COVID-19.
We didn't have a good plan going in. The resources needed to keep health care workers safe and patients alive are in woeful short supply. We're building plans as we go, we're ramping up resource production to protect and save lives, we're implementing public health measures to stay safe, we're learning, and next time, which could be unwelcomely soon, we'll be better prepared to prevent, to stop, to treat.
A simple cloth face covering can help slow the spread of the virus by those infected and by those who do not exhibit symptoms.
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