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Health Risks Are Rising in Mountain Areas Flooded by Hurricane Helene and Cut Off From Clean Water, Power and Hospitals
EXPERT: Sarabeth Baxter Lowe
FEATURED IN: The Conversation — Tuesday, October 1, 2024
OVERVIEW: Hurricane Helene’s flooding has subsided, but health risks are growing in hard-hit regions of the North Carolina mountains, where many people lost . . .
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Planning Now for the Disasters of Tomorrow
EXPERT: Jennifer M Trivedi
FEATURED IN: UDaily — Saturday, August 10, 2024
OVERVIEW: “Disasters know no boundary lines. Floods, earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, drought, conflict — they happen anywhere and everywhere on . . .
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How heat and a hurricane combined for misery in Houston
EXPERT: Jennifer M Trivedi
FEATURED IN: E&E News by Politico — Friday, July 19, 2024
OVERVIEW: “Compound disasters such as hurricanes and heat waves are increasingly testing Texas and other states along the Gulf of Mexico, said Jennifer Trivedi, . . .
“‘There’s a phrase people use: “There’s’ no such thing as a natural disaster,”‘ Trivedi said. ‘Really what we mean by that is there is always some sort of human intervention, human decision-making, human structures that are shaping the systems that really ramp a hazard into a disaster.’ […]”
“At the same time, experts say equitable citywide access to cooling centers and other emergency resources is crucial for protecting vulnerable populations when the lights do go out. And, in the long term, building up climate resilience in socially vulnerable communities is key to better outcomes when disasters strike. ‘It really is an equity question,’ Trivedi said. ‘That’s something that has to be part of these conversations.’ […]”
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People who didn’t know they had COVID-19 drove its spread in China
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: ScienceNews.org — Tuesday, March 17, 2020
OVERVIEW:
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How long with COVID-19 last
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: PopularScience.com — Tuesday, March 17, 2020
OVERVIEW:
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The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 34: Responses to COVID-19
EXPERT: Jennifer Trivedi
FEATURED IN: The Anchor by Spotify — Monday, March 16, 2020
OVERVIEW: This is audio podcast subject is the “Response to COVID-19”
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COVID-19: Exploring the unanswered questions (Video)
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Newswise.com — Monday, March 16, 2020
OVERVIEW: Jennifer Horney joins the Newswise Live Expert Panel discussion on unique angles to the COVID-19 outbreak of interest to the public and the media, including public health, testing, business and financial markets, 2020 elections and more.
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The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 34
EXPERT: Jenn Trivedi
FEATURED IN: The Big Rhetorical Podcast — Monday, March 16, 2020
OVERVIEW: Charles Woods covers academic and institutional responses to the COVID-19 global pandemic. This episode features three guests: Dr. Jenn Trivedi, Assistant Professor and Core Faculty Member at the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, Allegra Smith, Ph.D. student and Assistant Director of the Purdue Professional Writing Program at Purdue University, and Alek Janakievski, an undergraduate student at the University of Dayton.
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EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: MarketWatch: Outside the Box — Monday, March 16, 2020
OVERVIEW: Opinion written by Tricia Wachtendorf, Professor of Sociology at University of Delaware and Director of the Disaster Research Center. “But rather than focus too much attention on that choice, what we should instead be concerned about is how supply chains and related just-in-time or vendor-management inventory models are highly efficient during routine times, but prove less agile with the sudden and uncertain conditions of an emerging crisis” says Wachtendorf.
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Trump says pandemic crisis was unforeseen, but lots of people foresaw it
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: CNN.com — Sunday, March 15, 2020
OVERVIEW: “I think everyone is well aware that our travel, economy — everything — is so closely linked globally that there would be almost no potential for an infectious disease not to spread globally at this point,” said Jennifer Horney.
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In the U.S. coronavirus crisis, the buck stops here,
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Deutsche Welle — Friday, March 13, 2020
OVERVIEW: The World Health Organization is advising consumers to use contactless payments whenever possible. Epidemiologist Jennifer Horney says this is essential because even in advanced countries where mobile payment is widespread, infections couldn’t be contained.
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What does it mean to declare a pandemic?
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Healthline.com — Thursday, March 12, 2020
OVERVIEW:
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Confusing Oval Office address failed to calm public’s virus fears, experts say
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Sinclair Broadcast Group — Thursday, March 12, 2020
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LabWare rolling out test kit to address nationwide data-collection gaps
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Delaware Business Times — Monday, May 4, 2020
OVERVIEW: LabWare, the leading global provider of enterprise software for testing laboratories, has created a COVID-19 test kit that will help states and hospitals eliminate the paperwork at collection sites, reduce the turnaround for test results, and streamline distribution of the results. …
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LabWare rolling out test kit to address nationwide data-collection gaps
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Delaware Business Times — Monday, May 4, 2020
OVERVIEW: Jennifer Horney, professor of epidemiology at the University of Delaware, discusses the importance of timely surveillance data to prevent a full-blown second wave of COVID-19.
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LabWare rolling out test kit to address nationwide data-collection gaps
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Delaware Business Times — Monday, May 4, 2020
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Does rain wash away COVID-19 coronavirus?
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Forbes.com — Thursday, April 30, 2020
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Statewide COVID-19 testing plan could become a reality
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Delaware Business Times — Wednesday, April 29, 2020
OVERVIEW: Jennifer Horney of the UD Disaster Research Center is one of several experts weighing in on Delaware’s COVID-19 plan moving forward.
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Statewide COVID-19 testing plan could become a reality, April 29, 2020
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Delaware Business Times — Wednesday, April 29, 2020
OVERVIEW: Article mentions Scan Delaware Health and Jennifer Horney, core faculty with the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center.
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Contact tracing and COVID-19
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Delaware Department of Health and Social Services — Monday, April 27, 2020
OVERVIEW: Video featuring Jennifer Horney, core faculty of the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center.
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Second virus wave? Experts unsure about possibilities
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: DelawareStateNews.com — Saturday, April 25, 2020
OVERVIEW: Jennifer Horney, professor founding director of the UD Epidemiology Program, weighs in on the uncertainty around the possibiltiy of a second wave of COVID-19.
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Despite calls for more COVID-19 testing in Arizona, the number of tests done each week has fallen
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: AZCentral.com — Friday, April 24, 2020
OVERVIEW: Jennifer Horney, professor and founding director of the program in epidemiology at the University of Delaware, discusses the importance of testing for COVID-19.
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Air conditioning spread the coronavirus to 10 people sitting near an infected person in a restaurant. It has huge implications for the service industry
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: BusinessInsider.com — Tuesday, April 21, 2020
OVERVIEW: Jennifer Horney, the founding director of the University of Delaware’s epidemiology program, told Business Insider that she foresees a slow relaxation of states’ or regions’ emergency orders, which would allow restaurants to reopen with some tweaks to traditional service.
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