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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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6 Myths About COVID-19 Doctors Need You To Stop Believing Right Now
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Well+Good — Monday, October 26, 2020
OVERVIEW: We’re heading in the wrong direction. The United States has recorded more than 8.6 million cases of the coronavirus—5 percent of them just last week. Scientists and doctors know so much more about the virus than they did 10 months ago yet myths and misinformation abound concerning how people contract and recover from COVID-19. The coronavirus is pushing hospitals to the brink as its spread shows no signs of slowing down. The third surge of the COVID-19 pandemic has arrived. …
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6 Myths About COVID-19 Doctors Need You To Stop Believing Right Now
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: WELL+GOOD — Monday, October 26, 2020
OVERVIEW:
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Listeria Outbreak Linked to Deli Meat
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Everyday Health — Sunday, October 25, 2020
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Americans Should Brace for 100,000 New COVID Cases a Day, Experts Say
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Daily Beast — Sunday, October 25, 2020
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Even the Author of That Viral Study Says Mouthwash Does *Not* Protect You From COVID-19
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: WELL+GOOD — Thursday, October 22, 2020
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Hurricane Delta aims for ‘devil’s playground’
EXPERT: Jenn Trivedi
FEATURED IN: E&E News — Saturday, October 10, 2020
OVERVIEW: “With adaptation and resilience, we can get caught up in talking about things like managed retreat and home buyouts and things like that,” said Jennifer Trivedi, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware. “But for a lot of people it comes down to a simple question, ‘What do I need to survive? Once I know that I’m going to make the best choice for me and for my family.'”
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EXPERT: Trivedi Jennifer
FEATURED IN: E&E News — Friday, October 9, 2020
OVERVIEW: Six weeks ago, Hurricane Laura brought 150 mph winds and a 10 foot storm surge over their doorsteps, leaving behind wreckage and mostly unlivable houses with no power, water, gas or cellphone service. …
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Multiple Disasters Strain Response Systems, Slow Recovery, and Deepen Inequity
EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: Direct Relief — Wednesday, October 7, 2020
OVERVIEW:
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EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: The New York Times — Saturday, September 19, 2020
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Pack a ‘Go Bag’ Now
EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: The New York Times — Saturday, September 19, 2020
OVERVIEW: “The more you plan and the more you prepare for an emergency, the more mental space you have to deal with the things you need to improvise when the emergency hits,” — Tricia Wachtendorf
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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
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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
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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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