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Should I send my child back to in-person school? | A Q&A with Dr. Manoj Jain – Commercial Appeal
Question: Should I send my children to in-person school? Answer: Yes. It has been a year since many children have not attended in person school, the educational and psychological risk outweighs the risk from the coronavirus. Last March we did not know much about the...
How effective is double-masking against COVID-19? | A Q&A with Dr. Manoj Jain – Commercial Appeal
Masks work because they reduce the transmission of virus filled aerosol droplets from infected person to an uninfected person. Question: Does double masking really help reduce the transmission of Covid infection? Answer: Absolutely yes. For nearly 6 months, I have...
What to know about the new variant coronavirus strain | Q&A with Dr. Manoj Jain – Commercial Appeal
Question: Do we have the new mutant variant strain in Memphis?Answer: Yes. Over the past months, our local laboratories have been randomly looking at the genetic code of the COVID-19 viruses, a process called sequencing. Over 450 COVID-19 viruses have been sequenced...
What side effects should I expect after taking COVID-19 Vaccine? | Q&A with Dr. Manoj Jain – Commercial Appeal
Vaccine side effects can be lumped into three major categories: Mild such as body ache and soreness in the arm, moderate such as headache and severe that may cause shortness of breath. "Memphis healthcare professionals overcome difficulties during COVID-19 pandemic"...
The choice is clear: get the COVID-19 vaccine or the virus | Opinion – Commercial Appeal
Though there are questions raised regarding the vaccines' safety and efficiency, it still remains the best defenses in the fight against COVID-19. Vaccine expert anticipates vaccine distribution to improve, despite rough start. Dean of the School of Public Health at...
How does our immune system work to fight COVID-19? A Q&A with Dr. Manoj Jain – Commercial Appeal
Our battle against the virus is both an individual and collective effort: our individual immune systems and our public health system. Question: How does our immune system work to fight COVID-19? Answer: Our immune system is our greatest and best defence against the...
Why is there so much confusion over the vaccination at the federal, state and local level? | Q&A with Dr. Manoj Jain – Commercial Appeal
This week Dr. Jain tackles your questions regarding the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and how Shelby County plans to give it out. Question: Why is there so much confusion over the vaccination at the federal, state and local level? Answer: The covid...
How many patients will die in Shelby County from COVID-19? | A Q&A with Manoj Jain – Commercial Appeal
These high numbers of cases are translating to an increasing number of deaths. I along with Dr. Fridtj of Thomas did a rough calculation of the projected deaths in Shelby County for the next two months. As of Dec. 18 over 800 people in Shelby County have died of...
Should I get the COVID-19 vaccine? | A Q&A with Dr. Manoj Jain – Commercial Appeal
Dr. Jain answers your questions regarding the recently distributed COVID-19 vaccines. Question: Should I get the COVID-19 vaccine? Answer: As the vaccine becomes available to our healthcare workers and first responders—I got my shot on Friday—many in the general...
What do I need to do if I’m COVID-19 positive? | A Q&A with Dr. Manoj Jain – Commercial Appeal
Q: What do I need to do if I am COVID-19 Positive? Answer: One in 22 Americans have become positive for COVID-19. Each day in Shelby County, about 450 people receive news that their COVID-19 test is positive. It is important to know how you can help yourself and...
How many people can catch COVID-19 from one infected person? | Q&A with Dr. Manoj Jain – Commercial Appeal
Dr. Manoj Jain, an infectious disease physician in Memphis, is also a member of the City of Memphis-Shelby County Joint COVID Task Force.
Global Crowdsourcing Can Help the U.S. Beat the Pandemic – Harvard Business Review.
To fight Covid-19, the United States must be open to ideas from everywhere, including developing countries. Sometimes less-wealthy countries can offer simple, low-tech solutions that are highly effective at containing infectious diseases. In an earlier article, I...
Medical breakthroughs in COVID-19 testing put us in the Offensive during pandemic | Opinion – Commercial Appeal.
We have taken the defensive during COVID-19 by washing hands, wearing masks and social distancing. But breakthroughs in how we test for the virus could put us in the offensive. For months we have been on the defense against COVID-19. We are masking, distancing and...
Success of America’s economy depends on smart, safe reopening of our schools | Opinion – Commercial Appeal.
The opening of private and county schools is essential to the opening of the workplace and our economy. Few have recognized the critical importance of opening our county and private schools in the strategy to open our workforce and the economy. With children at home,...
The Science of Reopening Memphis : VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlotihFV1_8&feature=youtu.be Dr. Manoj Jain leads a discussion of the details behind reopening our city and offers guidance to physician practices as they seek to reopen.
Coronavirus testing will be an essential part of the new normal | Opinion – Tennessean.
In the new normal there will be three types of people: COVID infected, COVID immune and COVID susceptible, and two types of tests used to classify us all. Based on our COVID status a person may be in isolation, able to do certain front-line jobs or be wearing a mask...
Privatized contact tracing will help America safely reopen amid coronavirus pandemic | Opinion – Tennessean.
After implementing social distancing through a lockdown, but before deploying a vaccine, the single best tool we have to contain the COVID-19 pandemic is contact tracing. Countries that have been successful outliers in halting the virus’s spread, like...
Reopening America: What restructuring communities will look like months ahead | Opinion – Commercial Appeal.
For any city or community to even begin a conversation about reopening, it will first need to achieve some basic milestones. Reopening America will be difficult, much like the entry of a space shuttle in the atmosphere or the experiencing of bends by a diver...
Coronavirus Response presentation by Dr. Manoj Jain and Alisa Haushalter – Commercial Appeal.
Coronavirus Response PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Manoj Jain and Alisa Haushalter. Source: Commercial Appeal
Infectious disease specialist answers questions about coronavirus | ABC24
Dr. Manoj Jain answers questions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic Infectious disease specialist Dr. Manoj Jain answers questions about coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. Monday, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland issues a “safer at home” executive order. Here is that...
Coronavirus: How long will it go on? | WREG
How long will this last? That is the question people ask most frequently about the COVID-19 pandemic. To answer this question, we need to understand the major factor which is fueling the pandemic. It is people. People connecting to people allows the virus...
Infectious disease doctor says extreme level of social distancing is necessary to fight spread of COVID-19 | Fox13
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The City of Memphis’s Infectious Disease Doctor and Epidemiologist Dr. Manoj Jain said Mayor Jim Strickland’s decision to stop all non-essential business by Tuesday evening was the right call. Dr. Jain said it is what is needed right now to stop...
Coronavirus: Social distancing is key to combating pandemic / Opinion – Commercial Appeal
How much for how long will this last? That is the question people ask most frequently about the COVID-19 pandemic. To answer this question we need to understand the major factor that is fueling the pandemic: It is people. People connecting to people allows the...
What’s the ‘new normal’ with coronavirus? – Commercial Appeal : Opinion
Wow, who could have imagined that a 120-nanometer particle would jolt financial markets by trillions of dollars, or bring a country and the world to a shutdown, or even humble the most powerful of political leaders to declare a national emergency. No longer are...
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Is our preparation for the Coronavirus reasonable or irrational panic? – Commercial Appeal
With the Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, spreading across the globe, we must stand on fact instead of panic. Often I wonder if we -- and the stock markets -- are overreacting to the Coronavirus, COVID-19, epidemic (not declared as a pandemic). Other infectious...
Here’s what would happen if COVID-19 entered a city – Daily Memphian #coronavirus
The coronavirus recently named COVID-19 has exited China and created local outbreaks in South Korea, Israel, Iran and Italy. Many experts believe that it will soon cross the ocean and establish in a city in America if it has not already done so. I agree. Manoj...
Epidemiologist: Why I fear the coronavirus COVID-19 – Daily Memphian #coronavirus
The newly named and identified coronavirus, COVID-19, worries me. If the virus enters the general population in cities across the globe as it has done in Wuhan, China, then day-to-day lives in the affected cities will be greatly disrupted. As an infectious disease...
‘Do I have coronavirus or the flu?’ The answer is simple – Daily Memphian #coronavirus
You have a fever and a cough. How do you know if this is the flu or the new coronavirus that is sweeping across continents and upheaving travel and daily plans of millions if not billions of individuals? The answer is simple. If you live in the United States as of...
Prescription for Wellness in the new year – Commercial Appeal
On the third day of the new year, I was standing in a dimly lit lecture hall in front of 150 first- year medical students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center talking about “wellness.” At that moment I thought, a decade from now, these young minds,...
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