Air travel remains down nearly 48% (when compared to last year’s numbers) as COVID-19 maintains its trek around the globe. Travel restrictions, safety issues and fear continue to keep the majority of travelers out of the skies. According to industry advocacy group Airlines for America, business travel accounts for up to 70% of industry sales. […]
Pollution Pandemic in the St. Johns River
Sixty-one-year-old Jacksonville resident Neil A. Armingeon, the St. Johns Riverkeeper, said "The St. Johns River, and the communities that depend on it for our economy and our quality of life, are at a crossroad. We cannot continue to pollute the St. Johns River and expect it to […]
Microsoft should deliver us from this registration pandemic
Must registration precede membership on a website? Must this conventional and adjustable process obtainable on websites continue? It has become usual and normal to fill a form in a process termed registration to become a member of a website. What follows sometimes is verification, mostly email and phone for some. There are reasons for […]
Helping Avert the AIDS Pandemic
The Avert Society Project has been created to support the Government of India reduce the negative impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on the social, economic and human development in India. This goal is in accordance with the NACP-II dual goals of reducing the spread of HIV infection in the country and strengthening the country’s response to HIV/AIDS […]
What is Swine Flu H1N1, Swine Flu Epidemic and Swine Flu Pandemic
Swine Flu is a respiratory disease, caused by a tiny spheroid virus that belongs to the Influenza A virus group (known as H1N1) that is capable of infecting humans, birds and pigs. It is contagious and can be passed from one species (e.g., birds) through an intermediate animal host (e.g., pigs) to a third species […]
Preparing for a Pandemic, State Health Departments Struggle With Rationing Decisions
Spanish Flu Ward, 1918 This story was co-published with the New York Times. New York state health officials recently laid out this wrenching scenario for a small group of medical professionals from New York-Presbyterian Hospital: A 32-year-old man with cystic fibrosis is rushed to the hospital with appendicitis in the midst of a worsening […]
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