{"id":2811,"date":"2020-04-12T09:27:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T15:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2022-08-23T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T21:08:01","slug":"covid-19-root-cause-analysis-and-countermeasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/covid-19-root-cause-analysis-and-countermeasures\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Root Cause Analysis and Countermeasures"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I started wondering, what would the COVID-19 pandemic look like as an improvement story. We have charts about cases and deaths. What might be the root causes and potential countermeasures? Here&#8217;s my draft Ishikawa-fishbone root cause analysis diagram and countermeasures. Root causes circled in red.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2815\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/COVID-19-Root-Cause-Analysis.jpg\" alt=\"covid 19 root cause analysis\" width=\"804\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/COVID-19-Root-Cause-Analysis.jpg 804w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/COVID-19-Root-Cause-Analysis-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/COVID-19-Root-Cause-Analysis-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/COVID-19-Root-Cause-Analysis-115x64.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/COVID-19-Countermeasures.png\" alt=\"COVID-19 Countermeasures\" width=\"888\" height=\"536\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>We screen for guns in luggage and knives on passengers, why not temperatures?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>As of 4\/12\/20, NYC accounted for over a third of U.S. COVID-19 cases and almost 50% of deaths. It&#8217;s a hot zone. According to one employee, Denver General Hospital has not had a single COVID-19 patient. It&#8217;s a cold zone. What are the boundaries of the cold zone? We don&#8217;t know. In the future, we will need to quarantine the hot zones and let the cold zones operate as normal. Otherwise the global economy will grind to a halt.<\/p>\r\n<p>I believe that creative people will have a vaccine ready faster than ever before. This will help develop herd immunity. Meanwhile we need a more targeted\u00a0 way of managing the hot and cold spots. And we need a way to detect and prevent future outbreaks.<\/p>\r\n<p>Note: Fishbone and countermeasures diagrams created with QI Macros for Excel.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started wondering, what would the COVID-19 pandemic look like as an improvement story. We have charts about cases and deaths. What might be the root causes and potential countermeasures? Here&rsquo;s my draft Ishikawa-fishbone root cause analysis diagram and countermeasures. Root causes circled in red. We screen for guns in luggage and knives on passengers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,5,7],"tags":[330,168,82],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile-lean-six-sigma","category-qi-macros","category-six-sigma","tag-covid-19","tag-qi-macros","tag-root-cause-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5968,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions\/5968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}