[Themaintainers] Medicine, Public Health and Pandemics

Thu Jun 4 08:17:21 EDT 2020

Interesting Alexis, but can’t help wondering if innovation is a straw man, innovation has been part of the story, but flattening the curve down here has involved old fashioned epidemiological strategies of physical distancing, washing hands, covering one’s mouth, coughing into the elbow is a bit of recent innovation, but a bit of a stretch to call it that. Probably the big move was the shut down, but as Hillary Mantel pointed out recently here<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/30/hilary-mantel-thomas-cromwell-hay-festival-online>, this technique can be traced to the Tudors (and no doubt earlier). Much of the story has been behavioural. Face masks were in short supply in Australia as the virus spread, ventilators were for the very ill (of course) and we didn’t need so many of them because we flattened the curve, possibly because of geography as much as  the measures just mentioned.

A bit me old fashioned “bobs worth”, for what it is worth.

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From: themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu <themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu> On Behalf Of Alexis De Greiff
Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:57 PM
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Subject: [Themaintainers] Medicine, Public Health and Pandemics

Dear colleagues,

I am planning a chapter for an edited volume on Science, Technology and Society and I am interested in disputing the idea of “innovation” as the only way to “flat the curve”.

One of the issues I would like to discuss about repairing and maintaining sanitary infrastructures like ventilatos. Mexico, for instance is planning to repair 1.657 ventilators.

Does anybody know of similar projects or other of the same sort, not necessarily directly concerned with the current pandemic?

Yours,

ADGA

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