Michael Osterholm
michael osterholm, “Ask yourself the question: What would I need if my family needed to isolate itself for a month? Or, expressed another way: What do I need to have on hand if I couldn’t shop for a month? “It will cause you to think about things like food and medicine. There are members of almost every one of our family units who depend on prescription medicine, we need to factor that in. “Finally, can I suggest we use this as parents to reinforce handwashing as a habit?”
michael osterholm - I will conclude with just a reminder that pandemics are part of life. They come and they end. If coronavirus becomes the real threat it appears it may be, we will work our way through it. This is a time for us inform, but not inflame. We have many assets that our ancestors and previous generations did not, but there is no reason to think we will be spared the challenge. So, let us prepare. Coronavirus resources and tips If you have concerns about coronavirus, the following are reputable sources of information:
michael osterholm, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/summary.html https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/symptoms-causes/syc-20479963 In addition, the CDC advises us to take the following preventative steps: The coronavirus is prompting school closings in some parts of the U.S. and puts a major glitch in worship plans for millions of Muslims in the Middle East; Fox News correspondent David Lee Miller reports.
michael osterholm - The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the coronavirus might be the result of a biological attack from the United States, according to a local news agency. Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, who has previously vowed to cleanse the planet from the filth of Israel and the U.S., according to The Jerusalem Post, made the comments in the same engagement in which he praised Qassem Suleimani, who ran the IRGC's elite Quds Force until he was killed in January by an American drone strike while in Iraq.
michael osterholm - The Iranian Student's News Agency reported Salami said that the virus may be the product of an American biological invasion, according to a rough translation of the comments through Google translate. The news outlet also included Salami's comments in a tweet posted early Thursday morning, U.S. time. IS CORONAVIRUS A PANDEMIC OR AN EPIDEMIC? The news outlet Iran International also reported on the comments Thursday. The coronavirus is, of course, not the product of a U.S. attack, but rather a disease that originated at a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan that escaped Chinese containment efforts and has now spread to every continent in the world besides Antarctica.