How should we approach the green recovery
This video is for the conference on “Heath, Environment, and Education in Challenging Times” (2020). It is contributed by Mengyi Zhang and Louisa Hain.
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tamar.rogoszinskiBrian Concannon, executive director of the Insitute of Justice and Democracy in Haiti, a nonprofit in Boston. Fights for human rights on the island of Haiti.
Carrie Kahn, NPR. National Public Radio, news source.
President Michel Martelly, Haitain president.
United Nations
Nepalese soldiers - brought with them cholera to Haiti. Sent from UN.
Ban Ki-moon - U.N. Secretary-General - led plan to eradicate cholera.
Haitain Ministries of Health and Environment - not trusted by the world to control a trust fund
Jake Johnson - Center for Economic Policy and Research - Washington
US Government Accountability Office - pricing the cost of building new housing too high
Mission of Hope - NGO helping build houses
US Congressmen - demaing UN Secretary-General take responsibility for outbreak
US District Court Judge J. Paul Oetken - rejected class-action lawsuit that saught to compel the UN to compensate victims and fund cholera eradication
Beatrice Lindstrom - lawter at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
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tamar.rogoszinskiThe bibliography shows that the author did extensive research and even cited herself a few times. She uses MSF reports and essays, information from the United Nations, WHO, and other experts.
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tamar.rogoszinskiEmergency responders are portrayed in the film as being understaffed and overwhelmed by the outbreak. They show hospitals having to turn patients away due to being overwhelmed. They also show how Liberians were frustrated with this lack of communication between doctors and the patients. Nurses started dying from the disease, forcing hospitals to close. Responders had to deal with the community's denial of the disease, the lack of education, the rapid spread, and the number of patients.
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tamar.rogoszinskiI thought every aspect of the film served a purpose and helped shape the documentary.
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tamar.rogoszinskiI looked up bioterrorism agents and cases in which they were used. I looked on the CDCs website where they discuss preparation and planning to review their protocol for bioterrorism. On the same website, I also looked at the information for first responders to bioterrorism.
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tamar.rogoszinskiEmergency response is not really discussed in this article, since the focus is the investigation carried out after disasters have been cleared. He does mention responders at the Hague Street Explosion and the fire departments role in both that, the Iroquois Fire, and 9/11. He also mentions that had there been better fire response, the outcomes could have been different.
Looking back at 2020, COVID-19 unleashed a global pandemic that sweeps across the world. It was unexpected to see China emerging as a winner of this pandemic.