MC Rochester COVID-19 Updates

Mar 21, 2020 | Sarah Mensink | @samensink

Friends and colleagues,

In accordance with Mayo Clinic’s current policy re: managing exposure to COVID-19, the Dolores Jean Lavins Center for Humanities in Medicine has suspended the following events and programs until further notice:

Rosemary and Meredith Willson Harmony for Mayo Monday noon concert series: suspended until further notice
Music is Good Medicine concert series: suspended until further notice
Medical Improv: suspended until further notice
All patient and staff scheduled events, workshops, programs: suspended until further notice

The Carillon concerts will continue as scheduled.

In the meantime, we’ve been following many discussions of what to read or view online for information or distraction in the midst of COVID-19 news coverage. We’re providing some links to sources that we hope you’ll find helpful, comforting or entertaining.

The Atlantic
10 Days Later: What Italians Wish They Had Known

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/608113/italy-coronavirus/

The Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine
Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest 2019 Winning Essays

https://www.gold-foundation.org/programs/essay-contest/

Greywolf Press
Paul Lisicky, Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/later

The Guardian
A Dystopian Reading List: books to enjoy while in quarantine

https://tinyurl.com/r6owtua

Hektoen International
Jamie Samson, The Other Kingdom

https://hekint.org/2019/05/13/the-other-kingdom/

Kirkus
Novels To Get You Through a Pandemic

https://tinyurl.com/vou8eh2

MarketWatch
What to stream in a pandemic? Here are 25 comfort shows to binge and get your mind off coronavirus

https://tinyurl.com/tx7gcvv

MedHumChat
Poetry for Healthcare Providers? A Pediatrician’s Prescription

https://www.medhumchat.com/fromtheshelf/2020/3/16/poetry-for-healthcare-providers-a-pediatricians-prescription

The New Republic
Why You Should Watch Movies About Pandemics, During Pandemics

https://newrepublic.com/article/156970/watch-movies-pandemics-pandemics

The New Yorker
Jill Lepore, It’s Spreading

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/06/01/its-spreading

The New York Times
Your Quarantine Reader: Fearing the worst? Writers have been doing that for centuries. Best pandemic novels from Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen King.

https://nyti.ms/39FqKyt

Seven Essential Books About Pandemics

https://nyti.ms/2T6HgAw

Slate
Decoder Ring Podcast: Rubber Duckie How hot baths, cheap plastic, and Sesame Street helped make the rubber duck.

https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2020/03/rubber-ducks-friendly-floatees-container-spill

The Most Interesting Shakespeare Books, Movies and Websites

https://tinyurl.com/rnnesrg

Of course, for the most current updates on the coronavirus, use these links:

Mayo Clinic News Network: https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/category/covid-19/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

Minnesota Department of Health: https://www.health.state.mn.us/

Our best wishes to you all,