'There are plenty of bad things to worry or think about, if you’re looking, and most bads present themselves through no effort of your own. Which is what can make preparing for a public-health emergency so difficult, and so essential.' jngann writes
Photo: kamel Adjenef/Getty Images About a year ago my older son saw a new doctor. He was 2 or 3 then; he’s almost 4 now. This doctor wasn’t new to her profession — it was our family who was new to her, and that newness is probably what caused her to react the way she did. He was skinny, way too skinny, she made clear, and if we didn’t get his weight up, his chronic illness could escalate an ordinary illness.
Despite those efforts, the virus has spread across Europe and the Middle East. On Wednesday morning, Latin America’s first case was confirmed in Brazil. More than 50 cases have been confirmed in the United States. On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Americans should be ready for the virus to disrupt our lives. Dr.
The possibility of mild symptoms is precisely what makes COVID-19 terrifyingly easy to spread . The ordinary cold you wouldn’t think twice about could very well be just that. Or, in the age of COVID-19, it could be a virus capable of causing an international health crisis. Our household, like many with young children and overwhelmingly like those with vulnerable ones, features giant jugs of hand sanitizer. Travel-size versions rattle in my pockets and at the bottom of all my bags. Perhaps you’ve come across someone like me before: I am the uptight playground mother who lunges to intercept a cheese puff, rummaging for the sanitizer and muttering something about how we need to “do your hands” first.
“Luckily” I live in Northern California and own ten N95 masks already. In late 2018, smoke from the Camp fire made the air quality in San Francisco so bad that the public schools closed. We were outside the acute devastation of the fires , but the air quality was impossible to ignore, even as you counted yourself lucky in comparison. The city’s offices filled up with kids, or encouraged people to attempt working from home while watching their children.
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