This Week In Health Innovation

In the second installment of PopHealth Week's Covid-19 update (listen to first here), my guests included Nick van Terheyden, MD (@drnic1), Fred Goldstein, MS (@fsgoldstein) and Gregg Masters MPH (@2healthguru). We provide an update on the Covid-19 pandemic including a novel approach to safe re-opens for business and educational institutions. We also discuss the global and US specific stats including confirmed cases, deaths and where we stand on regional and national geo-cluster containment, and mitigation efforts including an update on the treatment and prevention (vaccine) horizon. Dashboard via Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University: Global Total Confirmed (as of 8/11/20) Cases: 18,585,774  Deaths: 701,665 United States Total Confirmed Cases: 4,775,621 25.6% share Deaths: 156,906 22.3% share This amidst a Covid-19 ‘balancing act’ factoring in the opposing forces of: Outcome 1: Stop the pandemic (get R0 below 1.0 via usual public health measures to contain or miti