Health & Environment

Lenient Rules & Missed Warnings Led To New COVID19 Cruise Cluster!

  • lack of stringent rules giving penalties to COVID19 violators is causing an upswing in cruise cases in Japan.
  • The country has recorded another cruise cluster in a ship that exploited these lax rules and enjoyed free movement.
  • Cases are piling up and this is proving the biggest cluster in Japan.
  • Lack of cluster tracing apps and limited testing is proving a massive hurdle in containing the outbreak.
  • The shipping company has apologized for the crew movement but hasn’t shown any concrete outbreak...

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COVID19 Loneliness May Trigger Social Contact Cravings!

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According to a Scientific American article written by Lydia Denworth, Loneliness hurts and the COVID19 pandemic lockdown is inducing this loneliness which ultimately is affecting peoples’ mental health.

Loneliness An Alarm Bell?

It is psychologically distressing and so physically unhealthy that being lonely increases the likelihood of an earlier death by 26 percent. But the feeling may serve a purpose, writes Lydia.

Psychologists theorize it hurts so much because, like hunger and thirst,...

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How Urban Designing Should Evolve To Make A Pandemic Free City?

  • COVID19 is going to change urban designing towards a more pandemic free city for tomorrow.
  • Future cities need to be citadels – self-sufficient, well planned with better sanitation and more green spaces.
  • In 10 years, 20% of the world population will be living in cities which act as hotspots for infectious disease.
  • Critical urban designing is needed to build a city for tomorrow free od diseases.
  • Cities like New York and Wuhan has shown how urban designing has gone wrong.
  • Modern cities need a lot...

https://mfame.guru/how-urban-designing-should-evolve-to-make-a-pandemic-free-city/

Divided By Borders United By Coronavirus!

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People living thousands of miles apart with nothing in common are today united in their struggle against coronavirus, says an article published on BBC.

The article chronicled stories from different parts of the world where people from different walks of life suffered from coronavirus under different circumstances. Their adversities didn’t succumb them to death but the pandemic did. This is that story.

The Unlikely Uniting Force

More than three million people around the world have tested positive...

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How Disease Experts Forecast COVID19 Toll!

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BREDA, NETHERLANDS – 2020/03/23: Paramedics move a patient on a stretcher to be transferred to another hospital due to overload amid Coronavirus outbreak.
The capacity of Brabant hospitals, including intensive care, will be insufficient in the coming week. Due to overload, approximately 500 to 700 patients will have to be taken to intensive care and other departments in hospitals outside the province, Marcel Visser reported on behalf of the Regional Consultation Acute Care Chain in Brabant in a...

https://mfame.guru/covid19-pandemic-end-forecast-by-disease-experts/

101 Year Old Woman Born During the Spanish Flu Survives COVID19!

After beating coronavirus at 101 years old, Friedman started looking for some yarn so she could knit.

In an unprecedented turn of events, a 101-year-old woman has recovered from the coronavirus. She has defeated 2 pandemics now – the spanish flu of 1918 and the COVID19, making it an interesting case for immunity, reports Mallory Hughes for CNN.

A Centurion Battling Diseases

Angelina Friedman survived cancer, miscarriages, internal bleeding, sepsis and now not one, but two pandemics. More than 100 years after living through the 1918 influenza pandemic, the 101-year-old woman just beat coronavirus.

A...

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How & When Will the COVID19 Pandemic End?

  • How the coronavirus pandemic will end depends on our collective effort in developing a mixture of strategies that we have learned from past pandemics.
  • 3 epidemics from the past hold the lessons which will see us through this pandemic.
  • The Spanish flu of 1918 shows how natural immunity will develop and we have to live with the disease for certain years.
  • The 2003 SARS pandemic shows the effectiveness of  containment and social distancing
  • The more recent swine flu epidemic shows how vaccines &...

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