{"id":18716,"date":"2020-03-12T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/coronavirus-update\/?p=18716"},"modified":"2022-02-10T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T18:36:00","slug":"how-do-you-slow-a-pandemic-like-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/coronavirus-update\/how-do-you-slow-a-pandemic-like-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you slow a pandemic like coronavirus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reducing social contact as much as possible will slow the spread of the disease and buy us time to both care for those in need and develop medical technologies that are needed to further deal with the pandemic,\u201d says health policy expert Mical Raz about the spread of COVID-19.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mical Raz, a University of Rochester health policy expert, physician, and historian, says implementing the most up-to-date understanding of epidemiology is key to dealing effectively with pandemics like coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor in Public Policy and Health, and a board-certified internist at the University\u2019s Strong Memorial Hospital, says the United States is \u201clagging miserably\u201d behind other countries in its response to the virus, is adopting many of the wrong lessons about pandemics when it comes to travel bans, and is slow in understanding the importance of social distancing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/how-do-you-slow-a-pandemic-420252\/\">Read the Q&amp;A.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reducing social contact as much as possible will slow the spread of the disease and buy us time to both care for those in need and develop medical technologies that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[826],"class_list":["post-18716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mar-2020"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How do you slow a pandemic like coronavirus? 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