COVID underlines value of humanities in medical education
Towards the end of January 2015, Professor Jenna Healey, Jason A Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, ended her lecture to the third-year medical students on the history of epidemics by projecting a slide of the Ebola virus above her as she recapped the top 10 things they needed to know.
The following year, she spoke beneath a picture of the Zika virus.
On 27 January 2020, a picture of the novel coronavirus that had recently been identified in Wuhan, China, filled the screen above her as she made her last point about epidemics: “This will happen again, and it will happen to you.”
When the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that almost 8% of the millions who have received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine hadn t returned to get the second shot they need, it raised concerns that the country might not be able reach herd immunity.
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When the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that almost 8% of the millions who have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine hadn’t returned to get the second shot they need, it raised concerns that the country might not be able reach herd immunity.
But health experts say what’s most surprising is how low that number is, and that it points to the need to inform people about the importance of that second shot for their own protection and that of others in a pandemic and to let them know that it’s not too late to get it.
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