At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals were flooded with critically ill patients suffering from the devastating effects of the virus. Medical providers and staff members across the country found themselves overworked and struggling to cope with deficits in manpower, time, space and equipment as COVID cases continued to climb amidst the normal workload….
As the COVID-19 pandemic has now ravaged the world for more than a year, much of the concern and research has centered on the respiratory symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and rightfully so. However, there has been very little media or research attention dedicated to the potentially significant impacts of SARS-CoV-2 on the visual system and…
It has been over 40 years since the Alma-Ata Declaration defined the concept of primary healthcare and brought international awareness to the extreme health inequities that permeate the globe. Unfortunately, the declaration’s ambitious goal of healthcare for all by 2000 was not met as intended [3]. Nonetheless, there still exist promising implementations of primary healthcare…
The following piece was written as part of The Pandemic: Science and Society course offered from Aug. 17 – Sep. 4. Comorbidity is frequently used in psychology and medicine to describe a state in which two or more conditions and/or disorders present together. In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic brought on by SARS-CoV-2,…