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...Crimson’s president, William C. Marra ’07, wrote in this space two Mondays ago that “journalism is all about trust.” And readers are more likely to trust our reporting when we include the names of our subjects. But that trust runs in two directions. When we print that Harvard officers have arrested an undergraduate on drug charges, we trust that you will take that report for what it’s worth: the University has leveled allegations against one of its own students, and those allegations have not been...
...often, individuals are accused on the front page and exonerated on page 13. If the Quincy student is acquitted, we promise to run that news as prominently as we printed the initial charges. In the meantime, we continue to trust that readers will use our reports to monitor campus law-enforcement officials—not to rush to pass judgment on their peers. And we will continue to provide you with thorough accounts of this case’s progress through the courts...
...problem with a pandemic, by definition, is that it strikes everywhere at once. And according to a 2005 report by Trust for America's Health, a non-profit that focuses on disease prevention, few states are prepared to cope with major disease outbreaks on their own. The report found problems at every level: nearly half the states did not adequately track disease outbreaks; hospitals in almost one third of states weren't prepared to cope with a surge in patients; and 21 states did not have sufficient backup supplies to ventilate even 10 additional patients, never mind the thousands that...
...course, all the equipment in the world won't help if there's no one to operate it. A 2005 survey of New York health care workers found that less than half would be willing to report to work during a SARS outbreak. According to the Trust for America's Health report, hospitals in only two states, Rhode Island and South Dakota, have credible plans to get people to work during a major outbreak. According to a RAND Corporation study published last fall, there are also concerns about how seriously local public health agencies take the risk of disease outbreak...
...Terrorist Attacks One of the conclusions of the 9/11 investigations was that in a major disaster, nothing is as important as the ability to communicate. This is not just a technical issue: just as they need interoperable radio systems, first responders also need to know and trust each other. That's a particular challenge in Washington, D.C., area, where a major disaster would be dealt with by two state governments, police and fire departments from 18 jurisdictions, and more than 40 federal police agencies and security services. Two years ago, the Government Accountability Office asked the Department of Homeland Security...