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COMMENTARY: What US leaders must do to protect health workers amid COVID-19 supply shortages | CIDRAP

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In the Shadows of Men: Surviving Adolescence – nadiaharhash

SURVIVING ADOLESCENCE The family portrait was then subject to collapse and breakage. Strange colors mingled, shapes were off balance and out of place. There were no lines or columns, nothing in proper proportion. The entire image was on the verge of being unrecognizable. How often I gave myself over to despair, almost submitting completely. How…

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US private health insurance companies clog system amid Covid-19 pandemic | US news | The Guardian

In the past two weeks the reality of the Covid-19 pandemic has hit the country. States and cities have been weighing public health measures, making changes to government health plans, and pushing sweeping changes to everyday life. Physicians have largely sought to reschedule and cancel elective surgeries and other patient visits deemed non-essential to free up resources to handle the virus. But with a history of restrictive and confusing policies, private health insurance companies have lagged behind: making incremental changes to plans even as health providers seek to change course.

Source: US private health insurance companies clog system amid Covid-19 pandemic | US news | The Guardian

Where Pandemics Come From — and How to Stop Them • The Revelator

“It’s a mix of biodiversity, but one that was created by people, not nature,” Keesing says. “We create a mix of species that don’t naturally occur together, and then it’s kind of like running an uncontrolled experiment. This virus jumps to that species.” Maybe that’s when a pathogen that we didn’t know about, that hadn’t previously made anyone sick (to our knowledge), suddenly becomes virulent and infects humans. “It was only when we did that to biodiversity that that virus became dangerous.” These types of markets pose one of the clearest threats to animal and human health, but they’re not the only threat. A greater risk is posed by the complex mix of habitat loss, population declines in wild species, and population increases among livestock and domesticated animals, invasive species and other more adaptable forms of wildlife.

Source: Where Pandemics Come From — and How to Stop Them • The Revelator

Doctor says supplies needed on Navajo Nation as coronavirus spreads

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By Sara Jager on Facebook

I am a doctor on the Navajo reservation in Tuba City, Arizona. We are being hit hard by COVID. We do not have enough gowns, masks, or face shields to protect all of the members of our triage, ER, and inpatient units. Here is what we need:1. Homemade face masks – these will be given to coughing patients to contain the spread of virus among

Opinion | Boris Johnson Isn’t Cut Out to Handle Coronavirus – The New York Times

As the virus spread into Europe in mid-February, an alert prime minister would have taken immediate charge, turbocharging preparations, aware that a possible pandemic posed a grave danger to Britain. Instead, he vanished from public view for 12 days, most of it spent on a private holiday with his pregnant fiancée at a palatial country house.