https://borkena.com/2020/04/11/ethiopia ... -covid-19/
"With 1200 health professionals, the plan is to cover all localities while emphasizing more vulnerable communities in the City ".
A.A estimated population is 5M
"In a similar development, the Tigray regional state is launching house-to-house testing in all towns and districts, according to the Fana Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) report, on Saturday ".
Tigray population is roughly 4.6M
The comparison of number of health professionals between A.A and Tigray is staggering. Tigray has 20 times more health professionals for roughly the same population. (note the number is excluding not assigned for house to house screening)
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Tiago
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Re: house-to-house testing for the little flu
The WHO director is under pressure from every corner, but at the end of the day it is those who gave him the job to decide his future at WHO.
Dr Theodros is being criticized and demonized like his predecessor .only this time the victims of the virus are whites and the noise is louder and uglier.
"A January 6 article in the New York Times suggested that WHO Director-General Margaret Chan’s response to the Ebola crisis was woefully inadequate. The article notes that it took 1,000 Ebola deaths in Africa and the spread of the disease to Nigeria for the Chan to proclaim a global emergency. Citing criticisms of Chan’s response to the SARS epidemic as a public health administrator in Hong Kong, the article accuses the current WHO head of conceding too heavily to local governments. The article claims that she relied too heavily on African regional offices to manage the response when her agency should have stepped in more aggressively earlier. But the history of public responses to infectious disease announcements, as well as tragically underfunded global disease surveillance systems, suggest that, while Chan may not have done everything she could, the story is much more complex than it seems.
Sounding the alarm bell on an infectious disease threat and taking extreme measures such as quarantine and travel bans is not without risk. American history is littered with examples of harmful infectious disease panic. More often than not, American responses to infectious disease threats tend to tap into embedded racial tensions. We only need to look at vicious attacks on African boys at a Bronx, NY school in October, to the sounds of the nickname “Ebola,” to understand that these dynamics are still very much at play. Chan herself certainly knows the harms of acting perhaps too quickly in response to what seems like a global infectious disease crisis. In 2009, Chan was harshly criticized for supposedly “overreacting” to the H1N1 threat". https://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedici ... -response/
Is he competent? I don't know but as most male leaders he may be confident but I don't think this job is given to him on a platter.In most cases confident and charismatic men !!!
are given top jobs even with out competence.I don't think I need to provide examples.
Dr Theodros is being criticized and demonized like his predecessor .only this time the victims of the virus are whites and the noise is louder and uglier.
"A January 6 article in the New York Times suggested that WHO Director-General Margaret Chan’s response to the Ebola crisis was woefully inadequate. The article notes that it took 1,000 Ebola deaths in Africa and the spread of the disease to Nigeria for the Chan to proclaim a global emergency. Citing criticisms of Chan’s response to the SARS epidemic as a public health administrator in Hong Kong, the article accuses the current WHO head of conceding too heavily to local governments. The article claims that she relied too heavily on African regional offices to manage the response when her agency should have stepped in more aggressively earlier. But the history of public responses to infectious disease announcements, as well as tragically underfunded global disease surveillance systems, suggest that, while Chan may not have done everything she could, the story is much more complex than it seems.
Sounding the alarm bell on an infectious disease threat and taking extreme measures such as quarantine and travel bans is not without risk. American history is littered with examples of harmful infectious disease panic. More often than not, American responses to infectious disease threats tend to tap into embedded racial tensions. We only need to look at vicious attacks on African boys at a Bronx, NY school in October, to the sounds of the nickname “Ebola,” to understand that these dynamics are still very much at play. Chan herself certainly knows the harms of acting perhaps too quickly in response to what seems like a global infectious disease crisis. In 2009, Chan was harshly criticized for supposedly “overreacting” to the H1N1 threat". https://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedici ... -response/
Is he competent? I don't know but as most male leaders he may be confident but I don't think this job is given to him on a platter.In most cases confident and charismatic men !!!
are given top jobs even with out competence.I don't think I need to provide examples.-
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Re: house-to-house testing for the little flu
" Srri monz-e-s, abuze-s, naygro"