Abused by one of her mother’s partner, switching living arrangements each time and ending up living in a tent. That’s why Dr. Amy Acton thinks she can manage any crisis while being at her best.
Dr. Amy Acton was working with her counterparts in order to slow down the potential spread of the novel coronavirus during an annual festival expected to attract around a hundred thousand of visitors and more than 20,000 athletes from all over the world. Thanks to Dr. Acton’s efforts, Ohio was the first state to shut down its schools for a period on March 12.
While President Trump announced that America was close to a “light at the end of the tunnel”, Dr. Amy decided to use her daily press briefing in order to raise awareness about the increasing COVID-19 death tolls and insufficiency of resting resources.
In addition to her priceless efforts, Dr. Acton issued a decree in order to cancel and report “non-essential or elective surgeries and procedures” that necessitate protective equipment, and that before New York declared it was delaying elective procedures.
Dr. Amy Acton knew about the virus after a frightening phone call with the Centers for Diseas and Control. An epidemiologist mentioned an unpredictable and wandering illness that was spreading across Wuhan.
Dr. Acton, who holds a medical degree and master’s in public health, decided to go to her state epidemiologist and tackle the coronavirus.
Acton tries her best to arm her people with as much accurate insight as possible during her press briefings rather than keep them ignoring facts that could save their lives, doing so by communicating everyday with health administrators and other state and local health actors in order to gather information for the press briefings.
