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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
Jordan Ryan | Monday, February 26, 2018
Not a day goes by without seeing something in the news regarding the opioid crisis. On average, we lose 176 Americans a day to drug overdoses. Unfortunately, we have yet to unlock an effective solution capable of producing successful results. State and local governments have reacted to this crisis by, at least in part, playing
Henry Gens | Thursday, March 20, 2014
As part of the Notre Dame Forum on Women in Leadership, Dr. Rita Colwell, distinguished university professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, gave a lecture titled “Oceans, Climate and Human Health: the Cholera Paradigm.” Colwell prefaced her talk on cholera by borrowing Hippocrates view, which stated that in order to