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Watching what was happening around the world in early 2020, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers knew their region would likely soon be hit with a wave of patients with COVID-19, the infection caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. They wondered how the virus persists on surfaces, particularly in hospitals, and they knew they had only a small window of time to get started if they wanted to capture a snapshot of the before situation before patients with the infection were admitted.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: âMy Madness Will Now Bare Itselfâ
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By Sarah Broom
NOTES ON GRIEF
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
June 2020 marked the 40th anniversary of my fatherâs death. In the months leading up to then Iâd plotted ritualistic ways I might mark such loss. But by the time the anniversary arrived, more than 380,000 were dead from Covid. That grief of mine, no longer singular, was subsumed in the collective wail. That is, until Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieâs visceral exploration of her own fatherâs unexpected death that month. In 30 short sections, âNotes on Griefâ lays a path by which we might mourn our individual traumas among the aggregate suffering of this harrowing time. Our guide, Adichie, is uncloaked, full of âwretched, roaring rage,â teaching us within the space of this work how to gather our disparate selves and navigate the still-raging pandemic. In doing this, she tells a global story of this moment
New pandemic advice from the New York Times: Practicing good hygiene may be worse than COVID-19
The title of a puzzling opinion piece published recently in the
New York Times, written by author Markham Heid, asks: “Can we learn to live with germs again?” The subtitle proceeds to answer the curious question by suggesting that our health depends on resuming our pre-pandemic “lifestyles that expose us to bacteria, despite the risks” posed by the coronavirus. In short, the entire article promotes, in a virulent form of the not-so-subtle and unscientific construct, “the cure can’t be worse than the disease,” taken to its extreme and bizarre conclusions that good hygiene is worse than COVID-19.