by Arhana Aatresh (’23)
Welcome to Pandemic Panacea (the mental, the physical, the science). In this column, I’ll cover everything regarding living through the COVID-19 pandemic, from mental and physical effects to new scientific discoveries, as well as offer remedies and solutions.
Pandemic Panacea: restoring hope following COVID vaccinations
by Arhana Aatresh (’23) | May 10, 2021 After over a year, the future is finally looking up in California, which currently has the lowest percentage of cases and positive test rates in the entire nation, and where daily deaths have fallen 90% since the state’s peak in January 2021. The sunshine state is truly…
Pandemic Panacea: lessons learned
by Arhana Aatresh (’23) | March 29, 2021 On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 crisis a pandemic. By this time, the SARS-CoV-2 virus had already destroyed thousands of lives and was rapidly spreading in the United States, bringing life as we knew it to a halt. The major transition…
Pandemic Panacea: Vaccine development and distribution
by Arhana Aatresh (’23) | March 1, 2021 Since the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines were approved for emergency use authorization last December, people have been lining up to receive the vaccine, even visiting pharmacies at the end of the day, vying for leftover doses. Unfortunately, there is a general mistrust of the coronavirus vaccine. The…
Pandemic Panacea: vaccine and therapy innovation
by Arhana Aatresh (’23) | November 16, 2020 The global death toll due to the COVID-19 pandemic peaked at 1,319,267 cases on November 15 and is skyrocketing as the U.S. continues to smash records with an alarming increase in cases. Despite political pressure, U.S. health experts have consistently maintained that fully reopening businesses or schools…
Pandemic Panacea: mental health declines during lockdown
by Arhana Aatresh | October 5, 2020 Welcome to Pandemic Panacea! In this column, I will cover everything regarding living through the COVID-19 pandemic, from mental and physical effects to new scientific discoveries, and also offer remedies and solutions. This issue, I will discuss the mental impact of the past six months in quarantine. Ever…
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