Articles by: Geisel Communications

After the Pandemic, Will Customers Ever Return to the Hot Food Bar? – WGBH

Read article – Quotes Elizabeth Talbot, professor of medicine, in an article about the future of self-serve food bars after many restaurants and supermarkets closed down these services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Talbot, who is the deputy epidemiologist for the state of New Hampshire, said the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is not food-borne. “COVID-19 is transmitted predominantly by the person-to-person route through respiratory droplets,” said Talbot. “If respiratory droplets land on surfaces, then a person can come along and touch a contaminated surface and inoculate themselves within a short period of time after that.”

Coronavirus Data Trends Working in Maine’s Favor, But Risks Remain – Portland Press Herald

Read article – Quotes Stephanie Tomlin, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice’s Data and Analytic Core, in an article about how Maine is relaxing restrictions based on data from multiple sources showing that the state’s per capita COVID-19 infection rates are among the lowest in the nation. The article notes that Tomlin and other researchers with the Dartmouth Atlas Project have been tracking COVID-19’s progression by analyzing cases in the regional markets where residents receive health care. Tomlin noted that Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have so far avoided becoming hotspots, although areas of southern New Hampshire along the Massachusetts border have had small surges in cases.

Time for States to Reopen Their Economy? Political Divisions Emerge as Midwest Governors Weigh Coronavirus Cases vs. Unemployment – Chicago Tribune

Read article – Quotes Elliott Fisher, professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about the different approaches to handling the COVID-19 pandemic in the Midwest. The article features research from the Dartmouth Atlas Project conducted by Fisher and additional colleagues that maps COVID-19 cases and deaths by regional hospital districts.