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Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health in Balti- more. Unlike “Doomsday Preppers,” the coronavirus pandem- ic crucially requires flattening the curve of the crisis - ex- actly so the more vulnerable can fare better, so that our infrastructure will be less stressed at any one time. That requires cooperation by individuals and communities. To flatten the curve, epidemiologists talk about two im- portant numbers: how infectious a disease might be or the number of people that are infected by each person who’s been infected; and the number of people who die as a result of being infected. But these numbers are not con- stants independent of our actions. They depend on the characteristics of the pathogen but also our response. By preparing now we can alter both of those key numbers and save many lives, according to Preparing for Corona- virus to Strike the U.S., a Scientific American blog article. One silver lining of COVID-19 may be the ability to as- sess the effectiveness of remote work. Does remote work enable employees to concentrate on high-value results and get rid of low-value routines that may impede perfor- mance? Also, are there more effective and efficient ways to communicate that enable time for concentrated work? New research posted in the American Sociological Review shows that more flexible work policies that give workers
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