{"id":515,"date":"2020-08-22T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=515"},"modified":"2020-08-22T09:20:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:20:39","slug":"the-pandemic-experts-are-not-okay-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/08\/22\/the-pandemic-experts-are-not-okay-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pandemic Experts Are Not Okay &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For many Americans, the coronavirus pandemic has become white noise\u2014old news that has faded into the background of their lives. But the crisis is far from over. Arizona is one of the pandemic\u2019s new hot spots, with 24,000 confirmed cases over the past week and rising hospitalizations and deaths. Popescu saw the surge coming, \u201cbut to actually see it play out is heartbreaking,\u201d she said. \u201cIt didn\u2019t have to be this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Popescu is one of many public-health experts who have been preparing for and battling the pandemic since the start of the year. They\u2019re not treating sick people, as doctors or nurses might be, but are instead advising policy makers, monitoring the pandemic\u2019s movements, modeling its likely trajectory, and ensuring that hospitals are ready.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2020\/07\/pandemic-experts-are-not-okay\/613879\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>The Pandemic Experts Are Not Okay &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many Americans, the coronavirus pandemic has become white noise\u2014old news that has faded into the background of their lives. But the crisis is far from over. Arizona is one of the pandemic\u2019s new hot spots, with 24,000 confirmed cases over the past week and rising hospitalizations and deaths. Popescu saw the surge coming, \u201cbut &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/08\/22\/the-pandemic-experts-are-not-okay-the-atlantic\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}