This study formulates a theoretical model to calculate the risk of being infected in health care facilities and suggest ways to minimize these risks. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases admitted in hospitals is continuously increasing in the Philippines. Frontline
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This report used a SWOT analysis to determine how we should improve our ability to prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic in China. The lessons might be applied elsewhere. A group of experts used the Strengths (S), Weaknesses (W), Opportunities
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This case report shows how easily this virus can move from one traveler from Singapore to a resort in France and then to other countries. It highlights the difficult task ahead of us of contact tracing and isolation. At the
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This article discusses a legal challenge filed against the Houston area stay-at-home order barring large, in-person gatherings for church services. Public health emergency response powers historically have permitted such restrictions. While to date Texas has not implemented a statewide stay-at-home
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The DHS designated firearm shop employees essential, while Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts have challenged. The Department of Homeland Security issued guidance recently designated firearm shop employees essential workers. Last week, a split Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied a petition by
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This report details why cruises are at significant risk for outbreaks, and no one should be going on one during the COVID-19 pandemic. About 30 million people travel on 272 cruise ships each year worldwide. Cruise ships are a closed
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This study explains why long-term care facilities are at high risk for Covid-19 outbreaks and must identify and exclude potentially infected staff and visitors, actively monitor for potentially infected patients, and implement appropriate infection prevention and control measures. On February
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Local law enforcement in Florida and Illinois have arrested individuals for endangering others during the outbreak. A pastor of a Tampa Bay-area megachurch was arrested and jailed by the local sheriff for holding two large live Sunday services at his
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Multiple states (including TX, RI, MA, FL) have adopted policies restricting travel into their states from outbreak hot spots. While Texas has not yet adopted a state-wide shelter-in-place policy, they have established a policy ordering a 14-day self-quarantine for any
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This expert-authored report lays out multi-tiered path out from sheltering-in-place through recovery to reinforcing our response infrastructure. When will it be ok to begin loosening the stay-at-home restrictions currently in place, and when will things get back to normal? A
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