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-12 posts tagged "Public Health"
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, September 23, 2021
Within the past week, a story, an editorial and a letter in The Observer have revealed egregious incidents involving students being denied tests for COVID-19 by the University. I applaud these students, and The Observer, for bringing this information to light. Nearly two years into this pandemic, it is clear that testing and isolation is
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Nearly a year ago today, a CNN article proclaimed that “things are most likely never going ‘back to normal.’” At the time, that wasn’t really a controversial statement — it was the prevailing sentiment among people who spent too much time reading the news. The COVID-19 pandemic had shaken the foundations of our “normal,” and
Trevor Lwere | Monday, March 15, 2021
Finally, it seems like the world will prevail over the novel coronavirus. Whereas it will be a while before any sense of normalcy in our lives is restored, the rollout of the vaccination campaign in different parts of the world over the past couple of months is a hopeful sign. Yet, even in this apparently
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, August 19, 2020
I write this as an alumna, as a public health professional and as someone who has worked on infectious disease: Notre Dame needs to immediately return to remote learning for the remainder of the semester and develop a comprehensive plan to return its students safely home. It must be emphasized that the outbreak at Notre
Theresa Tulsiak | Monday, April 6, 2020
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act in spite of it.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt I think a lot about the firefighters that stood in front of the Twin Towers, looked up and ran straight into the building with the knowledge that this may be the last time they ever put
BridgeND | Monday, March 30, 2020
The United States is becoming the world’s epicenter for COVID-19, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting over 103,321 cases as of March 28. That’s nearly seven times the number of confirmed cases from just one week ago, according to the World Health Organization. To make matters worse, we know that most people
Isabella Volmert | Monday, March 23, 2020
Before students left for spring break, engineering professor Jeff Kantor created a model simulation of how COVID-19 could affect the Notre Dame campus and showed it to his students. Kantor explained the model is standard to predict the outcomes of infectious disease which most engineering and STEM students learn early on in their education. The
Andrew Sveda | Monday, March 23, 2020
Well, we’ve officially lost it. No doubt about that. Make no mistake, containing the coronavirus, let alone actually curing it, will be anything but an easy fight. But the media has spun the American public into an absolute frenzy. Grocery aisles once filled with nonperishables (and toilet paper) now lay absolutely bare. As everything flies
Observer Staff Report | Friday, March 6, 2020
After the first identified case of coronavirus in Indiana, Governor Eric Holcomb declared a public health emergency to receive federal funding for response, FOX 59 reported Friday. The patient, a resident of Marion County, traveled to Boston, coming into contact with people infected with coronavirus. After arriving back in Indiana on Wednesday, the article said
Ben Testani | Thursday, November 7, 2019
In the fall of 2018, Notre Dame struck a deal with Saint Joseph’s County to take over food safety inspections of its property. With dozens of food service establishments on campus, from the dining halls to hot dog stands in the football stadium, the University framed this arrangement as a way to relieve the overburdened