: For better Covid-19 communication, Pakistan must let medical experts do the talking #IndiaNEWS We drive cars but donâ€™t venture to fly a plane. Why? Because we are not trained pilots.Thatâ€™s how

For better Covid-19 communication, Pakistan must let medical experts do the talking #IndiaNEWS
We drive cars but donâ€™t venture to fly a plane. Why? Because we are not trained pilots.Thatâ€™s how it is. Managing our personal Covid-19 realities is like driving a car: carrying a nation through a mercurial pandemic requires trained pilots. But when non-professionals try to fly planes, nations end up with confusion and chaos.Thatâ€™s what may have happened with Covid-19 in Pakistan where June 5 marked the 100th day of the outbreak. And during those 100 days, who educated the country about the disease? Politicians, anchors, doctors, bureaucrats, and others. And what was the focus of those communications? Policy debates, boilerplate analysis, and a potpourri of treatment plans. Our national discourse largely revolved around a single word: lockdowns.This needs to change. The focus must shift from policy to mass education, from analysis to practice. This requires a panel of experts endorsed by the government and the local medical bodies. They should study the evolving science of this novel coronavirus, then communicate its symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and preventive strategies to laypeople, daily. The goal is to train a nation on how to tackle this pandemic.Imagine if, during those first 100 days, a panel of experts answered questions from the general public every night on TV?...Read more

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