Global Health and Global HealthCare a Reality. May 2020

Without Universal Health Coverage We Are Sitting Ducks When the next Pandemic Strikes Siddharth Chatterjee We live in a different world to the one we inhabited six short months ago. With more than 4 million people infected and over 280,000 dead globally by mid May 2020, Covid-19 has ruthlessly exposed the vulnerability of a globalised world to pandemic disease. People are slowly coming to terms with ... MORE > >

Beyond Trump--- US, UN & Global Health Governance Lawrence Surendra US President Donald Trump’s battle with the World Health Organization (WHO) hides two important issues. One, the long running love-hate relationship between the US and the UN, and two, a better understanding of how global public health is governed and in the overall context of global ... MORE > >

Why Some National Health Care Systems Do Better than Others Vladimir Popov In public health discussions, it is generally recognized that the social returns to health care investments are greater than the private returns, and much of such investments should be financed by the state. Also, global benefits from national health care spending are greater than just the ... MORE > >

Protecting Women’s Reproductive Health During the Pandemic Anand Grover and Ximena Casas “When I was 13… I got pregnant from my older brother… He raped me starting when I was 11,” a girl from Guatemala told one of us in 2015. She was one of the 2 million girls under 15 worldwide who give birth each year, often due to sexual violence. The Covid-19 pandemic is putting girls like her ... MORE > >

Finding Money for Public Health, Green Economic Recovery & SDGs John Garrett, Kathryn Tobin and Chilufya Chileshe The coronavirus pandemic underscores the profound fragility and unsustainability of today’s world. It exposes the chronic underinvestment in human health and well-being and the consequences of a relentless exploitation of biodiversity and the natural environment. Despite the pledge by 193 ... MORE > >

COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence

COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence One of the planet’s – and Africa’s – deepest prejudices is being demolished by the way countries handle COVID-19. For as long as any of us remember, everyone “knew” that “First World” countries – in effect, Western Europe and North America – were much better at providing their citizens with a ... MORE > >

United States Leads the World in Covid-19 Deaths Joseph Chamie It’s an indisputable fact: the United States leads the world in the number of Covid-19 deaths. As of 15 May, three months after the country’s first confirmed coronavirus death, the US death toll from the pandemic has reached a remarkable 88,000 deaths. That rising figure is more than double the ... MORE > >

PPE and Military Training. Memories from the past. May 2020

To our military members (U.S. Air Force, and civilians) that I've trained in the past

Remember I could take a standard 4-hour CBRNE 'Refresher' course that all base members had to complete within a 30-month period into 1-hour.

How did I do it?

1.  It was a refresher course.  Everyone was expected to know the basic CBRNE subject matter.

2.  Mandatory for all that attended to bring military unit assigned mask (MCU-2) properly sized and fitted.

3.  Mandatory that all attendees have their assigned U.S. Air Force Airmens Manual (AF Man 10-100)

4.  Explained and agreed by most senior officer (Lt to Col, or even General) in attendance 'Option' available for 4-hour or 1-hour course.  If agreed we continued with 1-hour with some spillage into 1-1/2 hour course.

5.  How?  Course was taught according to military and AF guidelines on subject matter areas to cover with major emphasis on wearing the protective mask.  Their main PPE\protective gear.

6.   All members immediately entered MOPP Level 1 (Mission Oriented Protective Poster Level).  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOPP_(protective_gear) and continued wearing throughout the course.

7.   All members were assigned a buddy (two individuals), and as a team were required to answer in writing and verbal response eight to ten questions that were covered in the AF requirements for refresher course completion.

At times there would be a General in the room and if you sat beside him or her that was your buddy.  Many Generals in attendance did not want to go thru the base protocol for visiting senior officials by base command officials.  In many cases General were taught directly in their office (Pentagon or other location), and we had only 15-minutes.  They knew the drill.

8.  Emphasis was on the buddy system and use of the AF Manual 10-100.

9.  Course completion consisted of return to MOPP Level 0.  All members as buddy's, had to pass a mask confidence task that consisted of banana oil or other simulant with mask on and mask off to instill confidence that the mask worked if used and fitted correctly.

Video below is of Army confidence training as an example

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/629269/soldiers-complete-mask-confidence-training

10. Review of what took place within the last hour.

11. End of course.

Ah, those were the days of high tempo training of military, ex-military civilians.  Problem came when non ex-military federal staff (Pentagon, Capital Hill, Fed Agency officials, State Department, translators, INTEL, NGA, and others I can't mention) were assigned a refresher class.

Memories.

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Earthquakes\Nevada Region: 2020-05-17 21:17:02 (M4.6) Nevada 38.2 -117.8 (185a5)

== PRELIMINARY REPORT ==

Event type:                      Earthquake

Region:                          Nevada

Geographic coordinates:          38.179N, 117.800W

Magnitude:                        4.6

Depth:                            12 km

Universal Time (UTC):            17 May 2020  21:17:02

Time near the Epicenter:          17 May 2020  14:17:02

Local standard time in your area: 17 May 2020  21:17:02

Location with respect to nearby cities:

35.8 km (22.2 mi) SE of Mina, Nevada

186.7 km (115.7 mi) ESE of Gardnerville Ranchos, Nevada

202.5 km (125.6 mi) SE of Fernley, Nevada

203.1 km (125.9 mi) ESE of Carson City, Nevada

208.0 km (129.0 mi) ESE of South Lake Tahoe, California

ADDITIONAL PARAMETERS

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event ID                    :  nn 00727561

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