Did you know that pandemics have a major influence on the way we build and design today? Throughout the years of past pandemics such as the 1918 flu and cholera in London, even up until our most recent Covid-19 pandemic, we have learned a lot about our interiors and how …
During the Reagan administration, there was an unpublished press conference that was filmed in 1982 with Larry Speakes, White House Press Secretary discussing the mounting cases of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) worldwide. During the press conference, there was little acknowledgment from the press secretary that the AIDS epidemic had become a serious issue. The first time it was mentioned Speakes responded by saying “A-I-D-S? I haven’t got anything on it.” (Gibson). The reporter Kinsolving responds saying “It’s known as ‘gay plague” (Gibson). Which at this point the entire press pool dissolves into laughter and it is made clear that the administration does not take the epidemic as a serious matter.
“The conversion of nature for production is winning the race, and conservationists are trying to beat the clock. It’s becoming one giant race to get to first place.” – Kristine Tompkins, Cofounder and President, Tompkins Conservation Introduction While the Covid-19 Pandemic continues, it is important to take a step back …
In Short, COVID-19 is an extremely transmissible and infectious disease caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus. In most cases, contracting the coronavirus will result in “mild to moderate respiratory illness,” (WHO). However, there is a greater risk of serious illness among certain groups of high-risk people like those in the elderly, diabetic, and immunocompromised communities, and it is beginning to look like COVID-19 will become a routinely mutating disease like influenza.
The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market is starting to look very good to me! Tweeted by Former U.S. President, Donald Trump, February 24, …
COVID-19 where did it come from and where is it going? To start let’s discuss the history of the virus. SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus that is part of a zoonotic Coronaviridae family and is most genetically similar to SARS-CoV-1 (Bahchechi, M.). This means that the virus currently wreaking havoc on the world evolved from a similar variant of a similar disease in a closely related set of diseases. This set of diseases are considered zoonotic which means that they originate first in animals before entering the human population. The genetic material of this virus is RNA, typical cells use DNA as their genetic material. Viruses are a type of pathogen that require hosts to survive and replicate, therefore they are not considered to be alive. But if viruses are not alive, how can they evolve?
For over 100 years, Asian Americans have been forced to fight for basic human rights, and yet, walking down the street is a fearful act because the risk of brutal assault and harassment is so imminent. It feels as though the United States has been transported back to 1900, where …
At the beginning of the pandemic, one of the things we as a society began to worry about were its effects on our pets and being able to spread this disease from human to animal and vice versa. Could just touching the pet of an infected individual infect us or …
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a difficult time for everyone, but for prison inmates, it has been an especially trying time. John J. Lennon is currently an inmate at Sullivan Correctional Facility in upstate New York, where he has been documenting the hardships he has been facing in prison during …
While some individuals in the middle ages thought that acquiring the black death may have been a punishment for their sins during the time, we can now blame this plague on a pesky little bacterium known as Y. pestis. This bacterium infects the host, normally fleas, which then latch themselves …
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