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Risk and resilience of well-being in caregivers of young children in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting communities worldwide, with direct effects of illness and mortality, and indirect effects on economies, workplaces, schools/daycares, and social life.

25
Nov
2020

The Lancet

Herd immunity for COVID-19

In early October, 2020, three epidemiologists convened in Great Barrington, a small town in Massachusetts, USA. Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA, USA), Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford University, Oxford, UK) and Martin Kulldorff (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) were there to draft an argument for a new strategy to combat COVID-19. They called it the Great Barrington Declaration. It has since been endorsed by thousands of medical practitioners, researchers, and public health scientists.

24
Nov
2020

Nature

COVID research updates: Immune responses to coronavirus persist beyond 6 months

Nature wades through the literature on the new coronavirus — and summarizes key papers as they appear.

20
Nov
2020

JAMA

Study Aims to Identify Drugs That Could Be Repurposed for COVID-19

 

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) recently launched a study to determine whether drugs that are already approved or in the late stage of clinical development might merit testing in larger clinical trials as a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) treatment.

 

24
Nov
2020

Johns Hopkins

As Vaccines Rollout, Should Age, Health Conditions Be Prioritized? An Epidemiologist Weighs

Arizona is among the states hardest-hit with COVID-19 right now, reporting more than 11,000 new cases and 105 deaths on Sunday. California, Florida, Oklahoma and Rhode Island are also struggling.

All of this playing is out as the bottle-necked national vaccine roll-out continues: 6.7 million Americans have now received a single dose, while 22-million doses have been distributed to hospitals and pharmacies.

11
Jan
2021

JAMA

Rethinking Wellness in Health Care Amid Rising COVID-19–Associated Emotional Distress

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic offers health care organizations and state agencies a rare opportunity to rethink their approaches to the well-being of health care professionals—including reexamining long-standing systemic organizational practices, as well as modernizing archaic state policies that contribute to a culture of suffering in silence. In health care, the topic of wellness is still often regarded as something soft and unnecessary or, worse yet, considered a sign of personal weakness. In recent years, we have seen a growing recognition of the need to promote wellness, but these efforts are still frequently relegated to the periphery in key organizational decisions and discussions. Wellness is often a footnote at the end of an agenda or a mascot on the sidelines.

15
Jan
2021

MNT

Vaccines and COVID-19: The latest hopeful research

What is the latest in COVID-19 vaccine advances? Can currently authorized vaccines protect against newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants? In this Hope Behind the Headlines feature, we examine these and other questions.

18
Jan
2021

Lancet

Mask-wearing and control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA: a cross-sectional study

Face masks have become commonplace across the USA because of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic. Although evidence suggests that masks help to curb the spread of the disease, there is little empirical research at the population level. We investigate the association between self-reported mask-wearing, physical distancing, and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA, along with the effect of statewide mandates on mask uptake.

19
Jan
2021

New Scientist

Covid-19 news: Prior infection boosts response to single Pfizer jab

The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemic

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237475-covid-19-news-prior-infection-boosts-response-to-single-pfizer-jab/#ixzz6tsGqSGe2

30
Apr
2021