Skip to main content
KBS_Icon_questionmark link-ico
covid-btw ;

Beyond The Ward: Responding to COVID-19 in Bermuda

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, K. Jade Robinson, a student of Master of Public Health student at The School of Population Health & Environmental Sciences, took the first flight out of the UK to her home country Bermuda. Since then, Jade has been volunteering as key worker to help prevent the spread of the virus.

Jade has been working a demanding schedule of 10-hour shifts. Her work includes conducting nasopharyngeal swabs in the public to test for the prevalence of the virus in Bermuda.

Bermuda enforced a strict travel ban, closing the airports just two days after Jade returned home. Tough quarantine restrictions on the small island has meant just 172 people have had COVID-19, while more than 46,000 people have been tested.

While restrictions have eased, hand hygiene and masks are implemented across the island.

I was fearful of putting anyone in my household at risk, knowing that I was potentially exposed to COVID-19 positive patients while working on the frontline. In between working, I was preparing for my final examinations for my Master of Public Health course. This required a lot of time-management.– Jade Robinson
keitha-bermuda

Jade has contributed a short documentary to Cov360, an education-based organisation that is working toward charitable status and aims to combat the prevalence of misinformation and disinformation around COVID-19.

The organisation operates in 22 countries and provides peer-reviewed reports, events and videos like Jade’s to deliver expertise in public health. The organisation launched in April and has run events on social interventions, impact of COVID-19 on the global south and civil liberties and conflict resolution. The volunteers consist of postgraduate students from around the globe, the humanitarian sector and other innovation-based backgrounds.

Jade’s documentary is an eye-opening film into Bermuda’s pandemic response. She interviews key workers who have been contributing to the response to the pandemic about their experiences.

She said: “Studying at King’s prepared me for the pandemic before it even began. I recall sitting in my Prevention and Control of Communicable Disease classes learning about virus outbreaks, and how public health practitioners respond to them. It was astonishing to see how a few months later, I’d be first-hand experiencing one.”

 

Latest news