Individual Project Management News Review 1
Roni Caryn Rabin’s “Huge Shelters for Coronavirus Patients Pose New Risks, Experts Fear,” was published in The New York Times on February 11, 2020. The article looks into the huge shelters that accommodate coronavirus patients, and pose a high risk to them because of the big numbers that are in the facilities. The virus is likely to spread even more and affect more people. The article aims to show how the infected people are being treated. The fact is that isolating many patients in these shelters enhances the spread of the virus, as the people who attend to the patients can also be infected.
From the article, it is apparent that the project of the huge shelters for coronavirus patients is not a success. This project is a failure because it is supposed to offer the patients an environment where they can get some care. However, the patients are many, and therefore there is the likelihood of the disease spreading faster than expected. As much as the project was meant to help the situation, it has done the worse by making the situation adverse because of the spread of the respiratory virus (Rabin 2020). The mitigation measures that would have been taken to save the predicament of the project is that there would have been a great comparison between the coronavirus pandemic now, and the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918.
The strength of the article is that it brings out a distinct comparison between two pandemics, and therefore gives them hope that people can be able to manage the current pandemic that has taken over the world by storm. If it happened in 1918 and was contained, then people are hopeful that the current one will also be contained (Rabin 2020). The weakness is that the article does not give an elaborate detail on the treatment that the patients in the shelter receive, or the duration that they will spend in those facilities. The patients are in a weak state, and such facilities create an avenue for the bacteria and viruses to spread quickly. Besides, many pathogens, which thrive when people gather, can also be present in these facilities.
The comparison that the author brings out shows the resemblance in the two pandemics. It also brings out the fact that there is hope for a better tomorrow. Therefore, as long as people follow all the directives put in place, the chances of their infection will be slim.
Reference
Rabin, R.C. (2020, February 12). Huge Shelter for Coronavirus Patients Pose New Risks, Experts Fear. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/health/coronavirus- quarantine.html