Question

Explain your opinions, views perspective as to why should coronavirus 2019 be considered a disaster?​

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Explanation:

As health systems around the world struggle to respond to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the crisis has brought into sharp focus several important global environmental health issues. It is becoming clear that environmental and climate factors help shape the landscape within which COVID-19 proliferates around the world, influencing the public health response to the pandemic and interacting with existing environmental health disparities.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out synergies between infectious disease epidemiology and environmental health in a more robust way than perhaps since the great pandemics of the past two centuries,” said John Balbus, M.D., NIEHS Senior Advisor for Public Health. “Conversations taking place in the global health community suggest that the experience of facing this pandemic may help foster more collaboration among those working on global health security, emergency preparedness, and disaster risk reduction, as well as those working on social determinants of health and health disparities. Hopefully, this can lead to better anticipation and societal resilience, especially for those populations at greatest risk, for environmental and climate-related shocks in the future.”

COVID-19 is a serious threat and continues to be a major focus of concern, but the global environmental health community also recognizes the persistent environmental threats which will still remain beyond the current pandemic. As several outlets have noted, the current health crisis calls attention to the longer-term issue of whether climate and other global environmental changes may raise the risk of infectious disease emergence or re-emergence and future pandemics. NIEHS is actively working to respond to the COVID-19 crisis and, at the same time, use these circumstances to better understand how environmental threats interact with global health security and how the world can recover from the COVID-19 crisis in ways that enhance global environmental health.