Healthcare Emergency Managmenet

Instructions

No cover page necessary. Just content for the paper. Case Study Questions:  In 1918 almost 675,000 people in the US died from that flu, as of this writing the US has 485,000 deaths from Covid-19. Considering that before this pandemic has past the United States will have lost at least 500,00 people to this virus, even with the advancement of modern medicine. Answer the following questions with thoughtful insight. Always support your arguments with literature. What similarities are there with regards to information/misinformation between both pandemics, and how do you feel it contributed to number of people who contracted these diseases and perished. Could or should anything have been done to manage these crisis' better from an emergency management standpoint.     How did containment measures in 1918 compare/contrast with our initial Covid-19 containment measures.     How does social media of today contribute to stigmatization and disinformation. Are there similarities between the current stigmatization of Covid-19 vaccines today and that of Bayer Aspirin in 1918? If so how? And does disinformation contribute to such stigmatization.

Answer

One of the similarities regarding information on the two pandemics is the way in which the two diseases are spread. Both of them are spread through droplets form an infected person to another. In essence, they are not airborne as many at the beginning of both the diseases thought. This is why in 1918, there was the use of masks, and this is also what is happening right now across the countries of the world. The misinformation here is that people contact the diseases through the air. What I feel this did to the human population is take both the diseases lightly. Many assume that an airborne disease will not affect many people simply because it is in the air. However, the two diseases have proven that even if one stays in the house the whole day and get into contact with an infected person,...
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