The Johns Hopkins University s Coronavirus Resource Center is launching the Pandemic Data Initiative as a new resource to spotlight systemic deficiencies in the collecting and reporting of pandemic data, to examine how those challenges hinder COVID-19 responses, and to explore possible solutions to improve public data.
Since the pandemic s start, Johns Hopkins University experts at the Coronavirus Resource Center had a behind-the-scenes view on how state, federal, and global agencies collected and reported COVID-19 data. Their analyses revealed a troubling truth: In the absence of standards and uniform methods, the states used an uneven patchwork of policies and disjointed reporting that hampered efforts to slow COVID-19 s spread, sowed confusion for policymakers and the public, hindered the ability to target resources to the most vulnerable, and complicated the process of measuring the effectiveness of public health interventions and vaccinations.
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Will we ever find a safe and satisfying alternative to a big, warm hug? More important: Do we want to?
Sharing a hug can benefit us in ways that are both emotional and physical, which is why it’s natural to want to connect through touch.
When mothers see their children, it triggers the release of the neurochemical oxytocin, the so-called bonding hormone. “The body can have a similar response with hugging it gets all the feeling-good hormones flowing,” says Neysa Ernst, RN, the nurse manager of the Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit in Baltimore, a state-of-the-art facility designed to care for patients affected by high-consequence infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
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Johns Hopkins experts on Friday continued what has been a national debate and dialogue over what s driving the current COVID-19 numbers and the number of vaccine doses to administer until the supply shortage ends.
As coronavirus case numbers and hospitalizations continue to fall, Maryland surpassed an important milestone Friday as more than 1 million vaccines have been administered.
During this week s Johns Hopkins COVID-19 update, Dr. William Moss, executive director of the International Vaccine Access Center, and Dr. Brian Garibaldi, director of the Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit, both called the current downward trend of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths promising.
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