Coronavirus Pandemic

COVID-19 is new and scientists understand little about how it behaves and spreads. The cost of creating a Coronavirus vaccine to protect people against the new coronavirus will run into billions of dollars and could take many months. Here are some of the reasons why. Time to get a COVID-19 …

Basic protective measures against the new coronavirus, Stay aware of the latest information on the COVID-19 outbreak, available on the WHO website and through your national and local public health authority. Most people who become infected experience mild illness and recover, but it can be more severe for others. Take …

Family Put Baby in Isolation After NICU Nurse Tests Positive for CCP Virus, When Brandon Waltman went to visit his newborn baby girl in the NICUneonatal intensive care unit of an Alabama hospital Monday night, he was told she had been placed in isolation. His daughter Emmarie Grace Waltman has been in …

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell today issued a “stay at home, work from home order” for Oahu effective Monday at 4:30 p.m. through April 30 in an attempt to fight the spread of the coronavirus. Mayor Kirk Caldwell Shortly after Mayor Kirk Caldwell announcement, Maui Mayor Mike Victorino issued a similar order for Maui …

Pan·dem·ic /panˈdemik/ (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world. History of Pandemics Image by Visual Capitalist As humans have spread across the world, so have infectious diseases. Even in this modern era, outbreaks are nearly constant, though not every outbreak reaches pandemic level as the Novel …

Corona is finally gone ? I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather …

Updated: 23 Mar 2020 The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) unveiled a new website for the public to access the latest information on COVID-19 in Hawaii. The State of Hawaii has mobilised an inter-agency collaborative effort to keep the community safe and healthy. The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) The …

The state Department of Health said today that the two new cases of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, are Oahu residents who had traveled outside Hawaii. “The health department monitors these individuals and monitors their isolation as well as the quarantine of their own family members,” officials said this afternoon. Hawaii …

University of Hawaii President David Lassner announced today that all upcoming graduation ceremonies will be canceled. “It is with great regret that I come to you with this announcement. After discussions with leadership at the campus and system level, we have made the difficult decision to cancel all traditional graduation …