So here’s the good thing about this pandemic – it has tapped the philanthropist in each of us. No other thing has given me a better understanding of “human interest” as an element of write-ups than the evening news featuring people helping people. Over 80 percent of the active cases are mild. The news was equally alarming as each evening it reported the number of cases skyrocketing. The health sector was in a race to find a cure, a vaccine against the disease whose very name we have come to fear – CoVID-19. Everyone seemed to have become a germophobe overnight, spraying their hands with alcohol now and then and keeping a safe distance from others. People hardly recognized their friends and acquaintances because of the face masks they were wearing. Busy streets suddenly became deserted, and shops teeming with people closed. ![]() People stayed indoors, with just one member of their family allowed to go out to get their basic needs. Public transportation was paralyzed, and people were stranded their only choice was to walk for kilometers upon kilometers to be with their families or stay where they were. Countless people went jobless and were desperately queuing for government support. No one realized that 2020 would be signaled by a nightmare rooted in a less-known province in China.īusinesses, big and small alike, started shutting down, nourishing very little hope that they would still be operating when this is all over. We made plans, but most of them were destined to be plans for a long, long time. Until it was too late, WHO declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, and life as we knew it would never be the same again. Still, people were too busy to pay him attention or to believe at all. Unfortunately, the world initially dismissed him the way the Trojans ignored Cassandra – he saw something terrible coming. Then came the warning from a doctor about a novel virus. Her BCERP work includes communication science research and outreach activities to educate girls, parents, and pediatric health care providers about the links between the environment and breast cancer.The virus took root in an open-air “wet market” that sold various goods, including carcasses of animals only a few brave souls would take as food. ![]() Silk is a researcher with the Breast Cancer and Environment Research where she serves as the PI of two NIEHS grants and as a Co-I of another breast cancer project. Her research has been published in the Journal of Health Communication, Health Communication, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Nutrition Education & Behavior, and Health Promotion & Practice. ![]() Her recent research has focused on the health issues of breast cancer risk reduction, suicide prevention, social norms, and improving nutritional practices among adolescent mothers for obesity reduction. Silk is a health communication scholar who investigates how to communicate effectively to promote positive health outcomes among the lay public. She previously served as the Senior Associate Dean for Research in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences and Professor in the Department of Communication and AgBioResearch at Michigan State University. Kami Silk, (Ph.D., University of Georgia) was appointed as Rosenberg Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware on September 1st, 2018.
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