{"id":17391,"date":"2022-08-28T06:33:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T06:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/?page_id=17391"},"modified":"2025-06-14T04:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:30:38","slug":"journal-2020-vol-21-no-1-editorial","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/journal-2020-vol-21-no-1-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal 2020 Vol.21 No.1 Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong><span class=\"journalTitle\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Journal 2020 Vol.21 No.1<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span class=\"journalTitle\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Editorial<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"volume\"><strong>Pondering Amidst the Pandemic<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Carmina A. delos Reyes, M.D.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Who would have thought that amidst the new year revelries last December, in Wuhan China, a different kind of explosion surfaced, which we now know as COVID-19. A month later, on 30 January 2020, the outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. As history unfolds, we find ourselves each day seeking new information to cope with this pandemic. There are several lessons to take from this crisis, and they are the same insights from of old:<\/div>\n<div>..that human health is priceless, and each day is a gift<br \/>\nand a blessing,<br \/>\n..that our health and that of our planet are inseparable,<br \/>\n..that a global threat needs a global response,<br \/>\n..that there is wisdom in the adage \u2018Prevention is<br \/>\nbetter than Cure\u2019,<br \/>\n..that we all have a role to play in the battle of our<br \/>\nlifetime, and<br \/>\n..that there is a need to unite through science to win<br \/>\nthis war.<br \/>\nIn this issue we bring you relevant science on challenges which came way before COVID-19.<\/div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.56964\/pidspj20202101001\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.56964\/pidspj20202101001<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Vol-21-No-1_DELOS-REYES_EDITORIAL.pdf\" target=\"_\" rel=\"noopener\">View Full Article in PDF format<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal 2020 Vol.21 No.1 Editorial Pondering Amidst the Pandemic Carmina A. delos Reyes, M.D. Who would have thought that amidst the new year revelries last December, in Wuhan China, a different kind of explosion surfaced, which we now know as COVID-19. A month later, on 30 January 2020, the outbreak was declared a Public Health  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17391","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17391"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20007,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17391\/revisions\/20007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}