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Tuberculosis: The Other Pandemic

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on March 24, 2020

As we deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, there is another pandemic going on — a much slower one — that has serious health implications when the two pandemics meet.

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How Has Wall Street Behaved With Other Pandemics?

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on March 12, 2020

The arrival and spread of coronavirus, and the interventions against it, have caused a commotion in the stock market. Has this happened with previous pandemics?

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Epidemics, Social Distancing and Parades (UPDATED)

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on March 10, 2020March 11, 2020

In 1918, a parade in the middle of the Spanish Flu pandemic triggered a severe epidemic of influenza in Philadelphia. With the first confirmed case of coronavirus reported in Philadelphia, city government officials have decided to go ahead with the St. Patrick’s Day parade.

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Todo lo que hay que saber sobre el coronavirus

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on January 26, 2020March 15, 2020

Hay muchas preguntas sobre el coronavirus. Aquí intentamos contestar algunas de ellas.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About the Novel Coronavirus but Were Afraid to Ask

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on January 25, 2020March 15, 2020

Questions about the novel coronavirus from China abound. Here, we aim to answer some of them and fight fear with knowledge.

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Summary: Photograph shows Canadian soldier being vaccinated at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec. The camp was established in August 1914 as part of the mobilization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force at the beginning of World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Title: People from all over the city waiting to get vaccinated, Essen Healthcare, 542 E. 138th St., Bronx⠀
The sterility of each batch of vaccine is tested before it leaves the laboratory. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana. April 1942. Image via the US Library of Congress.
Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid inoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas. April 1943. (Remastered)⠀
Title: Vaccination of dogs at Alexandria, Va., 2/21/25⠀
Dr. Herrald R. Cox, who developed the method of producing typhus vaccine from infected eggs, examining bacteria cultures. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana. April 1942. Image via the US Library of Congress.

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