The COVID 19 Project tests the hypotheses that citizens, provided with information and tools can be trusted to address the complex problems in their community and nationally.
Get Involved
TAKE PART IN OUR EFFORT
Citizens and civil society organizations interested in supporting and joining the COVID 19 Project are welcome.
Join us for our online event at the occasion of the beginning of the Citizen Commission (Details to come)
The COVID 19 Pandemic Case Presentation
Treatment Plan
The COVID 19 Pandemic citizen-oriented treatment plan provides a , multi-stakeholder and multiphase road map for citizen involvement in their political ecosystem. Our goal is to provide a framework, a platform of sorts, to tackle a pandemic that has claimed many lives, emotional and financial toll and has assaulted our civil liberties.
The challenge of The COVID 19 Pandemic requires a well-formulated, coordinated effort that addresses the complexity of the ecosystem* as well as to leverage our understanding of the institutional challenges that must be identified and overcome. We are motivated by and are testing the belief that given the right tools and framework, citizens, patients, consumers, healthcare professionals, public servants and politicians, working together can achieve great results addressing the COVID 19 pandemic and related challenges facing our nation. The treatment plan offers a modular approach that can be easily used to address particular aspects of The COVID 19 Pandemic. The activist agenda that addresses the identified challenges and powerful barriers that have stymied prior efforts at addressing the medical and social challenges of pain and addiction. The particular items are linked to an action plan for citizen engagement.
Coronavirus features
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Number of droplets
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Lethality
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Course days
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Length to symptoms
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Length to all clear
Host features
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Age
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Medical condition
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Immune function
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Smoking
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Economic status
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Social Status
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Racial Backround
Medical System Features
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Beds
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ICU
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PPE
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Ventilators
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Trained staff
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Guidelines
Environmental features
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Density of Household
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Density of area
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Demographics
Public Health
Flatten the Curve
Strategies for addressing the Pandemic
Treatment Approach
The Coronavirus Up Close
Goal: To provide an up-to date overview of the Coronavirus and how it causes COVID 19.
The understanding of the virus is increasing rapidly. We hope to update the section as more scientific data becomes available.
Coronavirus is the name for a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as SARS.
The new disease that emerged in China in December has never been seen in humans before the current outbreak.
It's been called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by the World Health Organization and causes an illness that's been named COVID-19.
Features of coronavirus 2
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R0 or “R-naught”—the average number of new infections generated by one infected individual. . The number has since settled around 2.2 (the R0 for the seasonal flu, for comparison, is typically about 1.3).
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Number of droplets
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Lethality
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Course days
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Length to symptoms
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Length to all clear
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Mutations
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Seasonality
Audio Interview: The transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, looking at new evidence from Iceland and from the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
Host Features
How the virus affects the human host
Goal:
To provide an overview of the role of individual factors that contribute to infection, the outcome for the person, and the infection of others.
Host features
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Age Cohorts: The COVID-19 risks for different age groups, explained
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Medical condition: Respiratory, Cardiac, Immune difficulty
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Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection? Lancet March 11th, 2020
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Living situation: Crowded, generational
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43% of U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Linked to Nursing Homes. At least 54,000 people tied to U.S. nursing homes and long-term care facilities have died, according to a Times database tracking 282,000 known cases.
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Immune function
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Economic and social
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Racial and ethnic: Impact of Covid-19 on minority communities
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Smoking: A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that Chinese coronavirus patients who smoked were more than twice as likely as those who didn’t have severe infections from Covid-19. And smoking has been identified as a factor in patients who became ill in 2012 with MERS, another coronavirus.
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Symptoms of COVID-19 appear to be partly down to genetic makeup, researchers at King’s College London have discovered.The finding is based on data collected through the COVID-19 Symptom Tracker app, launched by the team last month.
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Individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 lowers the herd immunity threshold
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Genomewide Association Study of Severe COVID-19 with Respiratory Failure
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Host -Coronavirus Features
Understanding the interaction between the virus and the host in order to create interventions that stop the spread of the virus leading to the disease. To best understand the mechanisms of the interaction in order to limit the severity of the illness.
Background:
While it is spreading exponentially without public health informed measures to slow down the spread, the number of people who are exposed, become infected, become symptomatic and experience the severe manifestation of the COVID 19 and require enhanced limited health care resources can overwhelm the system’s capacity. By understanding the interaction between viruses and host we can have a greater likelihood for success.
Goal:
Flatten the Curve as used to describe the challenge facing the global environment was informed by an understanding that the Coronavirus virulence and infectivity will eventually impact a significant percentage of the global population.
Environmental Features
How the social and geographic environment impact the virus and the Pandemic
Environmental features
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Density
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Pollution
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Public Transportation
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Mass Events
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Demographics
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Senior Residence
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Temperature and UV
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Jonathan Kay in Quillete COVID-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons
Public Health System
Flatten the Curve
The Federal System Response
The State System Response
The Local System Response
Medical System Features
The Medical System Response
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Leadership
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Beds
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ICU
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PPE
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Ventilators
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Trained staff
Medical System Features
"Our analysis therefore suggests that healthcare demand can only be kept within manageable levels through the rapid adoption of public health measures (including testing and isolation of cases and wider social distancing measures) to suppress transmission, similar to those being adopted in many countries at the current time. If a suppression strategy is implemented early (at 0.2 deaths per 100,000 population per week) and sustained, then 38.7 million lives could be saved whilst if it is initiated when death numbers are higher (1.6 deaths per 100,000 population per week) then 30.7 million lives could be saved. Delays in implementing strategies to suppress transmission will lead to worse outcomes and fewer lives saved" .
The Global Impact of COVID-19 and Strategies for Mitigation and Suppression 26 March 2020
Avoid Harm
Minimize the harm from COVID 19 and its "treatment "
Vision
By September 2020 every individual who experiences symptoms of the Coronavirus infection has access to and is able to receive evidence-based, best practice informed treatment that improves their well-being in outcomes that matter for them.
By November 2020 there are no reported deaths of COVID-19 infection reported in the US.
By September 30, 2020, public health-driven considerations are driving the response to the Coronavirus viral infection related then political consideration.
By April 2021 a treatment, as well as prevention for the virus, is available to all individuals who have access to affordable, evidence-based treatment.
Goal: The right strategy for the individual and the system. The appropriate treatment for the right patient at the right time, for the right length of time, the right prevention strategy amount, and the right monitoring.
Moving Past the Pandemic
Vision:
By September 2020 the major impact of the COVID 19 Pandemic will decrease in the US leaving behind social, economic, educational, health care challenges, unlike Americans, have faced in a century. How shall we respond to the disparities that have disproportionally caused deaths and morbidity in communities of color.
Goal:
1. The health of the Nation
2. Economic Well being
3. Prepare for upcoming destructive events
Background:
It is well known that work plays an important role in the lives of individuals' families, communities, and the nation. Moving past the pandemic will require diligence to address the economic, social, and psychological trauma. It can provide an opportunity to explore different social experiments. Address social determinants such as poor housing conditions are often accompanied by neighborhood-level conditions that limit access to health care, risk-reduction information, and treatment alternatives, which are protective resources and can disrupt behaviors that ultimately lead to despair and its pathology.
Take Action
Vision:
The Pandemic serves as an opportunity to enhance the role of citizens in our democracy.
Invite
As a fellow citizen, I invite you to participate in a citizen commission to explore the COVID 19 pandemic and the response of the various global, national, state, local, non-governmental, and private sector stakeholders. Most importantly, the commission will consider the role of the citizen within their political ecosystem. The citizen’s commission utilizes the framework of the morbidity and mortality (M & M) conference used in the medical setting, to provide an objective, nonpartisan opportunity to examine and improve complex challenges. I believe and hope that in addition to making an impact on the COVID-19 pandemic, the citizen commission process offers a much-needed change to the current political dialogue and reframes the challenges we face as a nation.
Over the next few months, the digitally based crowdsourcing citizen commission will examine publicly available information and documents related to the origin, response, and communication of events occurring since the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was identified December 2019, in Wuhan, China. When appropriate we will invite relevant stakeholders to participate. The goal of the citizen commission is to test the proposition that with the proper framework and easy to use citizen-oriented tools, we the people can more effectively collaborate to address complex problems.
I invite fellow citizens to take part in this, grassroots, crowdsourced endeavor to address one of our current “national (and global) emergencies” the COVID 19 pandemic and explore the possibility of enhanced democracy through meaningful citizens engaged within their political ecosystem. Additionally, we hope to create a framework for dialogue within the public sphere to sustain a conversation for this and other current and future challenges in our body politic and more generally the global community.
Take part addressing COVID 19 Pandemic
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