Barakoa (Masks) During COVID-19
In: Public Health in the 21st Century Ser.
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Preliminaries -- Timeline of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya -- 2020 -- 2021 -- List of Persons, Abbreviations, and Terms -- Select COVID-19-Related Key Persons, Groups and Organizations -- Abbreviations of Some Uncommon Terms -- COVID-19's New Vocabulary [or Increased Use due to COVID] -- Introduction -- Structure of the Book -- Chapter 1 -- The Kenyan Government's COVID-19 Administrative Responses and Strategies -- Abstract -- Novel Pandemic, Suspect Capacity and Steep Learning Curves -- Government Communications, Public Information and Emergency Management -- Communication: Messaging -- Public Information and Communication: Institutions as Collaborators -- Public Information and Communications on Vaccines -- Institutional Disaster and Pandemic Management: Government by Committee? - NERC -- Human Movement: Transmission+ -- Constraining Human Movement: Curfews, Lockdowns and Travel Bans -- COVID Curfews and Pandemic Inequality -- Jirani and Complexity: Tanzania's COVID-19 Denials and Impacts -- Chapter 2 -- Public Health Responses and Strategies: Basic Hygiene Responses -- Abstract -- SARS-CoV-2: Anatomy of a Perfect Pathogen -- The Structure of COVID-19's Transmissibility -- Basic Hygiene Responses and Mitigation Strategies -- Hand Sanitizing -- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Masks and Mandates -- Masks on Kenyan Streets -- Kenyans' 'Peculiar' Mask Habits -- Deleterious: The Practice of Sharing Masks -- Masks at Half-Mask -- Masks at Full Mask: The Sight of Police -- Public Information on Masks -- The Last Word on Masks -- Chapter 3 -- Public Health Strategies: Epidemiological Responses -- Abstract -- Quarantines and Quarantine Facilities -- The Quarantine from Hell -- ABCs of COVID-19 Management: Testing, Tracking and Tracing -- Testing: Prohibitively Costly and Unavailable -- Testing and Stigma.