{"id":114372,"date":"2020-03-25T11:14:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T21:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=114372"},"modified":"2020-04-02T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T23:48:47","slug":"uh-epidemiology-containing-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/25\/uh-epidemiology-containing-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> epidemiologist lays out critical steps to containing pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_16257\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jRJ83kOnpL8?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Â鶹´«Ã½epidemiologist lays out critical steps to containing pandemics\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Health crisis restrictions such as social distancing, which government and top health officials are implementing across the nation, stem from data gathered by epidemiologists. Those experts across the globe are analyzing stats from hospitals in countries slammed by COVID-19 to formulate how to control the virus\u2019 spread.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Lee<\/strong>, an assistant professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/publichealth\/specializations\/epidemiology\">epidemiology<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a>, explained the trends epidemiologists are now looking at.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s going to be important as the virus spreads, and it\u2019s going to spread to rural communities as well, how well we can screen all of our citizens. Not just the ones living in the current hotspots. <br \/>&#8212;Lee<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Because China is five to six weeks ahead of where everyone else\u2019s response is, (epidemiologists) are now able to utilize that and shift some focus on looking at what caused it,&rdquo; said Lee.<\/p>\n<p>He said epidemiologists are looking at population trends and COVID-19\u2019s infection rate to develop an aggressive approach toward containing it. Lee explains one of the findings experts arrived at regarding testing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It\u2019s going to be important as the virus spreads, and it\u2019s going to spread to rural communities as well, how well we can screen all of our citizens. Not just the ones living in the current hotspots,&rdquo; Lee said.<\/p>\n<p>Like thousands of <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> faculty, Lee is transitioning all of his courses online for the remainder of the semester. He plans to focus epidemiology lectures on COVID-19 studies that continue to surface as the outbreak grips the globe.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/corona-mask.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-114390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/corona-mask.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/corona-mask-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/corona-mask-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epidemiologists are looking at population trends and COVID-19&#8217;\u2019s infection rate to develop an aggressive approach toward containing it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12],"tags":[1411,1417,1045,1363,241,449,596,9],"class_list":["post-114372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-video","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-research","tag-epidemiology","tag-manoa-research","tag-public-health","tag-public-health-sciences","tag-myron-b-thompson-school-of-social-work","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114372"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115065,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114372\/revisions\/115065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}