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April 2, 2021
Strategies to improve Karachi’s disaster response were discussed at a meeting at the Commissioner’s Office involving some 14 departments of the Emergency Response System and a team of Jinnah Sindh medical University’s collaborative project titled ‘Measuring Urban Capacity for Humanitarian Crisis’.
Presided by the Commissioner Karachi Navid Ahmed Shaikh, the participants reviewed the research outcomes presented by JSMU’s APPNA Institute of Public Health and suggested measures like upgrading of various ambulance services in Karachi according to international standards and a formal system of accreditation of the ambulances to be introduced by the Commissioner’s office, said a statement here on Thursday. Professor Lubna Ansari Baig, Chairperson AIPH-JSMU said that
Johns Hopkins Medicine Expert Weighs Devastating Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare Workers
A recent Johns Hopkins Medicine study uses a computer model to predict the number of COVID-19 infections among health care workers in four different scenarios based on data from early in the pandemic. Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, from data in Razzak et al, PLOS ONE 15(12): e0242589
December 16, 2020 During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers have been at the forefront of the battle against the life-threatening illness. Sadly, they are not immune to the effects of the disease. Many have contracted COVID-19, and some have died.
Researchers estimate the impacts of COVID-19 on U.S. health care community
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers have been at the forefront of the battle against the life-threatening illness. Sadly, they are not immune to the effects of the disease. Many have contracted COVID-19, and some have died.
In a paper published Dec. 4, 2020, in the journal
PLOS One, Junaid Razzak, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Emergency Care, and his colleagues estimated the impacts of COVID-19 on the U.S. health care community based on observed numbers of health care worker infections during the early phase of the pandemic in Hubei, China, and Italy, areas that experienced peaks in COVID-19 cases before the United States.
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Credit: Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, from data in Razzak et al, PLOS ONE 15(12): e0242589
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers have been at the forefront of the battle against the life-threatening illness. Sadly, they are not immune to the effects of the disease. Many have contracted COVID-19, and some have died.
In a paper published Dec. 4, 2020, in the journal
PLOS One, Junaid Razzak, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Emergency Care, and his colleagues estimated the impacts of COVID-19 on the U.S. health care community based on observed numbers of health care worker infections during the early phase of the pandemic in Hubei, China, and Italy, areas that experienced peaks in COVID-19 cases
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