"Handwashing Alert Critical": New Pandemic Language
Credit to Daniel Heninger, writing in the Wall Street Journal. He suggests qualifier words, like "geographic pandemic" and "mortaility pandemic". I suggest public health recasts language that educates as well as informs. Example: "Handwashing Alert Critical in x, y, z region" (for airborne transmission) or "Facemask Alert Critical in x, y, z region" or "Home Quarantine Alert Critical".
Heninger's article is at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124467570858004013.html
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