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Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Participants

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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 teach anthropology and environmental studies at Haveford College, just outside of Philly. Currently, I'm holed up in a cabin in the Adirondacks in upstate New York with several family members, including my spouse and 4 year old daughter and 3 dogs. I started working on disasters by accident, when one day in 2001 I was walking to class at NYU and saw the World Trade Center buildings on flames. I have known Kim for a few year and I contacted her to connect with folks around Covid-19 and its imacts.

I'm particularly intersted in issues of communal grief, mourning, and bereavement. Also, I'm interested in the religious response to Covid-19.

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Cloud9

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Describe the routes of user engagement

The website and mobile app are the primary methods of engagement.

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Mental Health Consequences of Disaster

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

1) I did more research into our role and mental health in the EMS system as EMTs. I found this article to be particularly insightful: Managing Psychiatric Emergencies (http://www.emsworld.com/article/10931747/managing-psychiatric-emergencies).

2) Bettering and improving EMS care by bypassing EDs and transporting patients to mental hospitals.

(http://epmonthly.com/article/pilot-project-trains-ems-to-bypass-the-ed-with-mental-health-patients/)

3) Learned about FEMAs policies and programs for mental health following a disaster in the U.S. (https://www.fema.gov/recovery-directorate/crisis-counseling-assistance-training-program)

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Nuclear Emergency Response: Atomic Priests or an International SWAT Team?

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

The author of this article is Sonja D. Schmid. Sonja has degrees in science, technology and society (STS) as well as experience in organizational theory, disaster social issues, and studied risk in relation to different societies and cultures throughout the world.

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ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT AND THEIR REMEDIATION: TWENTY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

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What implications does the report have for technical professionals?

This report will allow for better response on the global, national, and local levels. Exposure levels among people and the environment will help with proper evacuation zones, treatment of patients, cleanup, and counter measures for the future.

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International Atomic Energy Agency

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What kind of data and research does this organization produce and share? How does the organization evaluate and monitor the credibility of the information it uses and circulates?

Every year the IAEA releases various reports on its members and the state of nuclear safety, safeguards implementation reports, nuclear technology review, and technical cooperation reports. These documents report the progress of the IAEA on accomplishing its mission statement.

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The Narrative Representation of illness

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Can you learn anything from the article or report’s bibliography that tells us something about how the article or report was produced?

The bibliography was not attached to the article, nor could I find one.

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Epidemics after Natural Disasters

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Describe the methodology of the study. Is this a new or inventive way of studying this issue?

The methodology of the study is fairly standard. It uses basic reasoning, supported with conclusive data to make its point on the true and falsehoods of communicable diseases associated with natural disasters.

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Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA)

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How does (or doesn’t) the policy address vulnerable populations?

Those that cannot pay for healthcare services (or are suspected to not be able to) are the most vulnerable population as they can literally die because of their social standing getting in the way of care and treatment.

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In the Shadow of Ebola

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How is the argument or narrative made and sustained? How much scientific information is provided, for example? Does the film have emotional appeal?

The argument is sustained by some big number facts but mostly through interviews with people on the ground and involved in the community of central Liberia.

Very little scientific information is provided by the film. The main goal of the film is to highlight the social aspects of the disease.

The film appeals emotionally, starting with following the personal story of the Urey family that becomes divided between the US and Liberia. Throughout the film, there is much appeal to the viewer’s emotion when presenting the difficulties and challenges in this case, such as law enforcement shooting the legs of a boy during civil unrest.