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  1. Overcoming the COVID-19 Crisis and Planning for the Future

    On March 12, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the spread of COVID-19 a global pandemic. As of May 29, 2020, a total of 5,657,529 cases of COVID-19 were registered worldwide, with 356,254 confirmed deaths ( 4 ). In the United States alone, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on May 28, 2020, was 1,698,523, and 100,446 ...

  2. How we can overcome the COVID-19 pandemic together

    The COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan developed by the WHO identifies community volunteers as key stakeholders for risk communication, community engagement and in provision of health services. Since joining the UN Volunteers programme for East and Southern Africa in November, I have been humbled by the selflessness shown by ...

  3. How to Write About COVID-19 In Your College Essay & Application

    How to Write About Coronavirus Using the Special COVID-19 (250-Word) Section on the Common App. Option 1: The Straightforward Way. Option 2: The Slightly More Creative Way. How to Write About Coronavirus Using the (650-Word) Additional Information Section.

  4. Essay: COVID-19 and humanity's interconnectedness

    As COVID-19 continues to creep its way into each of our communities and impact the way we live and communicate, I find solace in the fact that we face what comes next together, as humanity. When the day comes that my generation is responsible for dealing with another crisis, I hope we can use this experience to remind us that moving forward ...

  5. MY COVID-19 Story: how young people overcome the covid-19 crisis

    MY COVID-19 Story: how young people overcome the covid-19 crisis. During these unprecedented times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, young people find themselves stuck at their homes across the world. This unusual experience of self-isolation has significantly altered their lives and reality, bringing not only concerns and doubts, but also opening ...

  6. The complexity of managing COVID-19: How important is good ...

    The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inadequacy of public health systems worldwide, casting a shadow that we could not have imagined even a year ago. As the fog of confusion lifts and we begin to ...

  7. How to Write About Coronavirus in a College Essay

    Students can choose to write a full-length college essay on the coronavirus or summarize their experience in a shorter form. To help students explain how the pandemic affected them, The Common App ...

  8. How the world is combating the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

    It has already been in use for COVID-19 for a number of months: The Mayo Clinic has run an "expanded access program for convalescent plasma since March, and more than 70,000 people have received the treatment. It is found that there is a 35% improvement in mortality rate for COVID-19 patients given the plasma. Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine.

  9. How Can We End COVID-19 for Everyone, Everywhere?

    The number of undernourished people is estimated to have increased by 132 million by the end of 2020, with COVID-19 affecting food supplies globally, as well as forcing up food prices and impacting people's ability to earn a living. Millions of businesses across the world are either closing down or facing existential threat.

  10. Challenges and Opportunities in the Post-COVID-19 World

    The COVID-19 crisis has affected societies and economies around the globe and will permanently reshape our world as it continues to unfold. This collection of essays draws on the diverse insights of the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report Advisory Board to look ahead and across a broad range of issues.

  11. Writing about COVID-19 in a college admission essay

    The student or a family member had COVID-19 or suffered other illnesses due to confinement during the pandemic. The student suffered from a lack of internet access and other online learning challenges. Students who dealt with problems registering for or taking standardized tests and AP exams. Jeff Schiffman of the Tulane University admissions ...

  12. What We Learned About Ourselves During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Alex, a writer and fellow disabled parent, found the freedom to explore a fuller version of herself in the privacy the pandemic provided. "The way I dress, the way I love, and the way I carry ...

  13. Impact of COVID-19 on people's livelihoods, their health and our food

    The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and the world of work. ... Only together can we overcome the intertwined health and social and economic impacts of the pandemic and prevent its escalation into a protracted humanitarian and food ...

  14. Adapting to the culture of 'new normal': an emerging response to COVID-19

    A year after COVID-19 pandemic has emerged, we have suddenly been forced to adapt to the 'new normal': work-from-home setting, parents home-schooling their children in a new blended learning setting, lockdown and quarantine, and the mandatory wearing of face mask and face shields in public. ... adapt and overcome. The new normal is still ...

  15. How society can overcome covid-19

    The average flu's R0 value is about 1.2 or 1.3 or 1.1. The great influenza in 1918 probably had an R0 of a little over 2 or a little under 2. This virus so far we believe to have an R0, or a ...

  16. 12 Ideas for Writing Through the Pandemic With The New York Times

    In "The Quarantine Diaries," Amelia Nierenberg spoke to Ady, an 8-year-old in the Bay Area who is keeping a diary.Ms. Nierenberg writes: As the coronavirus continues to spread and confine ...

  17. 4 management strategies for overcoming the Covid-19 crisis

    Focus on execution, always communicating the sense of urgency, and demand rigour in execution. Leading change in uncertainty. 2. Emotional management. The second key step in managing the Covid-19 crisis is related with leadership and emotional management. The style of management in times of crisis plays a fundamental role and can be decisive ...

  18. Here's How the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Changed Our Lives

    From lifestyle changes to better eating habits, people are using this time to get healthier in many areas. Since the pandemic started, nearly two-thirds of the survey's participants (62%) say ...

  19. 12 moving essays about life during coronavirus

    Read these 12 moving essays about life during coronavirus. Artists, novelists, critics, and essayists are writing the first draft of history. A woman wearing a face mask in Miami. Alissa Wilkinson ...

  20. International collaboration and covid-19: what are we doing and where

    The covid-19 pandemic has once again shown the value of international cooperation and collaboration. Its importance is intuitive and widely supported. When the World Health Assembly convened in May 2020, member states passed a resolution emphasising the need for solidarity, resource redistribution, and collective action. 5 Many individuals ...

  21. Engaging With Communities

    Abstract. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has underscored longstanding societal differences in the drivers of health and demonstrated the value of applying a health equity lens to engage at-risk communities, communicate with them effectively, share data, and partner with them for program implementation, dissemination, and evaluation.

  22. COVID-19 photo essay: We're all in this together

    Hundreds of millions of babies are expected to be born during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fionn, son of Chloe O'Doherty and her husband Patrick, is among them. The couple says: "It's all over. We did ...

  23. Overcoming COVID-19 Learning Loss

    Overcoming COVID-19 Learning Loss. One of the most difficult tests facing schools this fall is how to pull off widespread intervention and assistance for students who begin the 2020-21 school year ...

  24. 7 Ways to Cope With COVID-19

    1. When you are sad, melancholy, or depressed, try something slow and soothing like: Taking a hot bath while listening to soothing music. Curling up under a blanket with a good book. Practicing ...