The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is telling Americans that they should be prepared for the possibility of a COVID-19 outbreak in their community.
But what does preparedness look like in practice? The short answer: Don’t panic — but do prepare.
That “means not only contingency planning but also good old-fashioned preparedness planning for your family,” says Rebecca Katz, director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University. In other words, what you’d do in case of a possible hurricane or another natural disaster.
We spoke with Katz and other health experts about common-sense things you can do to be ready should the virus hit where you live.
On this day, 27 February 1943, the Rosenstrasse protest, began – the only mass public demonstration by Germans against the deportation of Jews. The protests lasted until March, outside a detention centre on Rosenstrasse. They were organised by non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men who had just been picked up in a brutal wave of arrests across Berlin. The tenacity of the women, who had refused to divorce their husbands, and shown that they were willing to die to protect their Jewish family, may have forced Nazi authorities temporarily to back down. Unlike most European Jews, those who were detained in Rosenstrasse survived the Holocaust.
Pictured: a memorial to the protests https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1360441594140987/?type=3
