COVID-19 exposed a truth that infectious disease experts like Jhpiego’s Stacie Stender have been warning about for a long time: The world was not ready for a pandemic. Alarmingly, this is not the first, but in fact the seventh coronavirus documented in the last 50-plus years to spread from human to human, she notes. It
Contact tracing works. But only when people answer the call, stay on the phone and comply with the guidance and instructions offered. New data indicate that isn’t happening as often as it should to tamp down the pandemic. What if Baltimoreans knew more about who was calling, and recognized the voices as neighbors, as friends?
Global health leader Jhpiego, in collaboration with aerospace technology company Lighter Than Air (LTA), is providing 460,000 face shields for the personal protection of nurses, doctors, midwives and other frontline workers around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. Having worked for four decades to save lives, improve health and transform futures in many of the
