Politics and the pandemic
In this Information Age, the value of science as the leading source for public policy on health has largely been replaced with the mood of the masses, and from the…
Lockdown as a public health measure
As we learned through this book, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic brought to light how vulnerable we are to the infectious respiratory virus due to our living patterns, travel, and…
Novel treatments and trials in COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease arising from the beta coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has presented a major challenge to health-care systems and societies across the…
COVID-19 and social media
Introduction Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves Matthew 7:15 The original severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) also…
Allocating scarce medical resources: Inequity in the face of crisis (in pursuit of PPE)
Early in March of 2020, everything changed in the intensive care units (ICUs) throughout the nation. All of the sudden, surgical and N95 masks were the most valuable items in…
COVID-19: A health-care worker’s perspective
Introduction The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic took the world by surprise in 2020, rapidly overwhelming our societies, economies, and health-care systems. The health-care workers (HCWs), hospital administrators, government leaders,…
COVID-19: A family’s perspective
The emergence of a new virus of the Coronaviridae family, called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which was detected for the first time in December 2019 in Wuhan…
My experience with the novel coronavirus: As doctor and patient
“She’s young,” I thought to myself one night as the intensive care physician on call in the hospital. I had been called to evaluate a patient in her thirties who…
COVID-19 disaster preparedness
Disaster has been defined in numerous terms. But in essence, disaster is a disruption of function that causes the ability of the affected community to overcome using its resources. Pandemics…
COVID-19 and risk exposure of the front line: Heroes or martyrs?
Are we heroes or martyrs? Well, it depends on many things. At the beginning of the pandemic, everyone saw us as heroes and I even came to feel like one….
