Corona virus United States Issue 2022

Running Head: COVID-19
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According to Farkas & Romaniuk (2020) the United States of America has been at the
forefront of tracking the Coronavirus. The general trend overall is that the number of deaths
and new infections has been rising according to the center for disease control (CDC).
The critical issues addressed are how the virus has attacked people and significant
concern people of age above 65 years and above. There was fear since the jump of the
percentage was significantly high. The evidence was the number of death certificates issued
due to the coronavirus attack. At the start, it was downstream where the full effect brought a
negative impact on health care, but the issue became upstream where everybody was to take
caution about the virus and to get better health care.
France has been on the toes tracking Coronaviruses; the data collected shows a progressive
increase in the number of people who have contacted the virus. There is also an increase in
the number of deaths from the given date. France has recorded a significant rise in the case
per day. The nation focuses on upstream approaches to improve the health care of the
citizens.
There is a very high rate of contamination in one week. There was fear since the
projection for about three months could lead to a severe national disaster. There were changes
brought about of physical distancing another and lockdown.
The death rate is as follows;
COUNTRY DATE CONFIRMED
CASES
TOTAL DEATHS
U.S.A March 23rd, 2020 33018 428
March 24th, 2020 46450 593
March 26th, 2020 63675 887
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April 1st, 2020 184770 3746
April 13th, 2020 581826 21999
COUNTRY
FRANCE March 23rd, 2020 19856 879
March 24th, 2020 22302 1119
March 26th, 2020 29155 2715
April 1st, 2020 56989 4051
April 13th, 2020 113158 14982
Part2
Cough etiquette
1) Chauhan, Galwankar, Arquilla, Garg, Di Somma, El-Menyar& Stawicki (2020) said
that due to respiratory secretions, all individuals with infections, or signs and symptoms of
Coronavirus must cover their mouth and nose with a tissue when sneezing or coughing in
public places. People must use the nearest waste receptacle bin to dispose of used tissue.
After that, one must perform hygiene by washing their hand with non-antimicrobial soap and
water (Chauhan et al., 2020).
It is a useful resource since it addresses the potential method to prevent respiratory
infections for the Coronavirus.
Physical distancing
Based on Huremović (2019) one is supposed to stay six feet or two meters away from
each other. People should not gather in groups and should stay out of social gatherings.
Social distancing is very crucial since the Coronavirus mainly spread to people who are in
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close contact (Chauhan et al., 2020). The resource provides an essential aspect of reducing
corona infection by a massive percentage
2) Cough etiquette resource link; https://www.cdc.gov/flu/index.htm
Social distancing resource link;
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/considerations-relating-social-distancing-
measures-response-covid-19-second
3) Cough etiquette bad resource
World health organization disagree with scientists concerning coughing
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00974-w
Social distancing bad resource
Some religious leaders believe that they can't be affected by the virus since they have
faith in God. This is misleading information to the public; everybody can be a victim of the
Coronavirus. Bad resource link https://www.newsweek.com/pastor-holds-service-over-1000-
parishoners-defiance-large-gathering-ban-1493113
4) According to the World Health Organization (2020) data was given at the Centre
for Disease Control and Prevention and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and
control. The report was provided by the United States of human and health services on April
10th 2020, and agency of European Union on 23rd march 2020 through a publication to reduce
the rate of virus spread (World Health Organization, 2020). The information is given an
inaccurate manner and in a language that is simple to be understood by many.
The data is accessible to many people through social media and telecommunication
media. The data is also actionable in that people knew and understood what the information
intended them to do and practice the guidelines of physical distancing and cough etiquette,
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which has lowered the spread of the virus. The resource is useful since it is clear with short
and direct instructions.
Part 3
1) Unique risks related to COVID-19 in Americans Indians and Alaska natives include;
Housing and demographic challenges
Underfunding by the federal government and communities has led to a housing
shortage that has made it difficult for the two cities to practice social distancing required to
fight the Coronavirus. These communities are overcrowded as compared to the other two
percent of the United States of America (Fisher, Battams, Mcdermott, Baum, & Macdougall,
2019). Older people are the most affected by the virus, and they live in multigenerational
families.
Historic economic challenge
Fast & Collin-Vézina (2019) said that unlike the federal state, together with the local
government, many tribal nations don't have a tax base. Instead, then they tend to use business
owned by members and enterprises to generate imperative capital for education, public
health. These make it hard for the tribal government to respond to the coronavirus pandemic
and the coming collapse.
A higher risk of COVID- 19 complications
Regardless of the health differences between American Indians and Alaska natives
plus the total population, the federal Indian health service budget was catering just a half of
tribal health needs. The disease will sweep the Indian health service to the breaking point.
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How different organizations try to work with Aboriginals to promote health and
wellbeing.
Hefler, Kerrigan, Henryks, Freeman, & Thomas (2019) discussed that the following ways
would help to improve the welfare and health of the aboriginal community;
Respect between aboriginals and health professionals
The connection being a universal principle, any other inhuman practice such as
prejudiced attitude and racist, is highly disrespectful. Most health workers admit that link is
crucial to the clinical encounter. Native people who promote interpersonal relationships and
discourage any form of disrespect of any way respect each other. By understanding these
values, one can follow the instructions given by a health carer to these communities.
Working closely with the indigenous population to address barriers and gaps
Barriers that face Aboriginal communities when seeking health care may not be
evident to a health carer in a cultural context. Attitudes, beliefs, and values, language, and
communication, and social-economic are some of the identified gaps. Language barriers don't
only include the need for translation of said words but also culturally correct approaches. The
moment the health professional is made to know the obstacles facing aboriginal people, they
can, therefore, work with both community and individuals to address the issue of health and
social being.
Heath carers should work with indigenous people to give suitable health care
Non-Aboriginal and aboriginal have different views. A culture of a given group of
individuals is defined by their opinions and their language, expression, arts, and customs.
Since beliefs are environmental influenced, then culture is an entity that changes. There is a
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need for support for appropriate cultural health programs and approaches to work as a team to
increase the wellbeing of aboriginal people
Aboriginal individuals are supposed to have informed consent about their medical
treatments
Informed consent is viewed as legal need of care by any government because most of
the medical professional's quality standards are put in place to make sure that there is
informed consent to take place. To ensure that the Aboriginal community has access to
informed consent, it is very crucial to know their language and historical issues. These issues
help the health carer to have some time or to use the services to ensure appropriate consent is
available to the Aboriginal community.
2) El Zowalaty & Järhult (2020) defined One health as a trans-disciplinary approach, a
collaborative and multisectoral strategy that works at local, national, regional, and global
levels, and the aim is to attain optimum well beings and health among animals, people,
plants, environment, and people.
Canada has used one health approach to try to combat the Coronavirus pandemic.
When the country detected the virus, they responded by informing the public on how to
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prevent the spread. Ways that they emphasized on how to avoid the pandemic were social
distancing, isolation, and lockdown, coughing etiquette, and wearing masks. All these are
projected to prevent deterioration of the Canadian economy, which ultimately affects global
context and culture (Singh & Singh, 2020).
3) COVID-19 pandemic is playing mainly on social media, primarily via the circulation of
the meme. The use of this art is one of the most comforting mechanisms in times like this and
can help me to make light of the situation. This meme
https://twitter.com/FitLikeBritney/status/1248729373349462018/photo/1 is trying to
normalize the situation without overlooking the concern. The use of memes helps me to
express my feeling and makes me believe that things will be okay, no matter the case. The
meme brings up the aspect of reverse psychology that helps me to approach this situation
from a different point of view. For example, staying indoors (loneliness) is now being
normalized to control the pandemic.
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