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COVID-19 Data Group Analytics

This is a list of analytics by the COVID-19 Data Group.

COVID 19 & Data Working Group Update: November 6, 2020

Research update by the COVID-19 Data Working Group.

AK COVID-Development Studies Intersections

Aalok Khandekar

Annotation of

Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Participants

In response to

Where are you situated as COVID-19 plays out? What backstories shape your engagement with COVID-19? How can you be contacted? What questions and settings are you especially interested in following?

I am currently in the process of transitioning my M.A. level course on Science, Technology, and Development with 11 students to virtual instruction. One of my interests in engaging with COVID-19 is to examine how it (should) informs development ideologies and practices. How should students of development studies retool -- conceptually, methodologically, practically -- in wake of the pandemic?

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joerene.aviles

Annotation of

Public Health and the Epidemic of Incarceration

In response to

Describe the object of the study.

The study analyzes the high incarceration rates in the U.S. as an epidemic connected to the lack of public health resources available to populations being arrested.

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joerene.aviles

Annotation of

Mental Health Consequences of Disaster

In response to

What are the main findings or arguments presented in the article?

The main findings in the article include the development of mental health disorders in disaster victims, looking at risks, psychopathology, course of the disorders, prevention, treatment and recovery.

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joerene.aviles

In response to

What stakeholders are described or portrayed in the film, what were their experiences, and what kinds of decisions did they have to grapple with before, during, and in the aftermath of disaster?

The stakeholders are Dr. Atul Gawande, other healthcare professionals, and the patients with terminal illnesses. They have to decide what the patient's priorities are, treatment options, and basically how much time and quality of life patients are willing to trade for extended years to live. Is the treatment making the patient worse or better? Doctors have to put themselves in a position of vulnerability by personally getting to know their patients, and deal with the guilt and blame if their treatments aren't successful or what they had said to the patient's family.