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Tom FriedenFollow
President & CEO Resolve to Save Lives | Sr Fellow Global Health CFR | Physician,
public health | Focused on saving lives
During the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic, the CDC produced a weekly dashboard of the
most important interventions, objectively grading each in every affected country as red,
yellow or green. For Ebola, interventions were in five domains: command and control,
surveillance and epidemiology, case management (including laboratory testing),
essential health services, and effective communication.
The dashboard focused attention on interventions most likely to stop the epidemic. With
COVID-19, the same five domains are essential. Two additional domains to fight
COVID-19 are physical distancing and providing social and economic support. Here’s a
starter set of 10 areas to be tracked both nationally and in every state and community:
You can read my full piece on this topic in The Hill here:
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/489887-well-lose-world-war-c-against-the-
coronavirus-if-we-dont-fight-the-right