May 21, 2020 in Resoundingly Human
Preparing for a second wave of COVID-19
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It seems surreal to think that at the start of this year, few of us were aware of the threat of a novel new virus gaining momentum overseas. Now, only a few months later, the coronavirus or COVID-19, is a global pandemic, the effects of which have impacted nearly every aspect of our day-to-day lives.
As the number of cases in the U.S. continued to grow, states enacted restrictions to enforce social distancing efforts, with stay at home orders, business closures, and for businesses deemed essential, establishing guidelines to ensure customer and employee safety. At the heart of this was the desire to limit person-to-person contact in order to slow the rapidly climbing rate of infections. And so the terminology, “flatten the curve,” became part of our everyday conversation.
For this episode I am joined by Julie Swann, department head and A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor of the Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering with North Carolina State University, to discuss what the impact could be on the national and even world-wide effort to flatten the curve as states being to lift their restrictions.
Want to learn more? Check out the additional resoruces and links listed below for more information about what was discussed in this episode.
"The 2019-nCoV coronavirus: Are there two routes to infection?," OR/MS Today
"COVID-19 math: You, me Ro, and rolling re-entry," OR/MS Today
"Modelling seasonality and viral mutation to predict the course of an influenza pandemic," NIH National Library of Medicine
"COVID-19 is still spreading - is your city ready?," The Hill
"Statistics and research: Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)," Ourworldindata.org
"Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest map and case count," The New York Times
"Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period," Science
"The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them," erinbromage.com
"We're in the calm before a new storm of COVID-19 infections and deaths," Scientific American
"Managing Business Disruption and Supply Chain Risk," YouTube.com (GIBS Business School) and corresponding slides
Ashley Kilgore has more than a decade of experience in nonprofit communications and public relations, to include print, radio, video, and web. Contact Ashley Kilgore.