A Very Quick Update
It's finals week everywhere, so I'm slow to update you. But finals will end, and we will resume.
Like the swallows returning to Capistrano, so do students go into their final exams this week. I’ve been busy preparing a couple of final exams, grading some papers, and evaluating some final presentations. So I’ve been late in giving you more updates on the Public Health Night School.
Not to worry, though. Finals will end. The summer will be here. And I will have plenty of train rides to draft things for you. In the meantime, let me give you some primers to better understand the recent hantavirus epidemic on a cruise ship:
The WHO report on the situation: https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON599
An account of the Four Corners “hanta” epidemic back in the day: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6199996/
The flexibility of the R-naught (so don’t be fooled by people saying today that they know what the infectiousness of this event is): https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/1/17-1901_article
And a paper about the Andes strain of hantavirus: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7101103/
No need to worry right now, unless you were in direct contact with a case over several days. If you were, what are you doing reading this? Go get checked out by a physician!
Talk to you all soon!