One in six Spanish children depressed during pandemic: survey
Nearly one in six Spanish children have felt regularly depressed during the coronavirus crisis, with those from poorer backgrounds suffering worse, a charity said on Thursday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Quarantine fatigue has well and truly set in – and that could spell trouble | Arwa Mahdawi
In some US states, bars are already packed again and you can even get your nails done. Will lockdown boredom lead to a dreaded second wave?Coronavirus is officially cancelled: the US is bored of it, so it is over. That is what it feels like, anyway. In Wisconsin,bars are packed; Texas hasreopened restaurants; and Mississippi and Louisiana arereopening their casinos. People in Georgia can get their nails done. In New York, where I live, strict lockdown restrictions are still in place, but people are growing lax. The weather was beautiful over the weekend and the streets were full of people drinkingtakeout cocktails with fri...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 20, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Arwa Mahdawi Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology Science World news US news Source Type: news
Checkmate! China ’s Coronavirus Connection
Conclusion
In 1919 George A. Soper1 wrote that the deadly Spanish Flu pandemic that swept around the earth was without any precedents, and that there had been no such catastrophe ‘so sudden, so devastating and so universal’. He remarked that, “The most astonishing thing about the pandemic was the complete mystery which surrounded it. Nobody seemed to know what the disease was, where it came from or how to stop it. Anxious minds are inquiring today whether another wave of it will come again”.
With close to 3 million positive cases and around 0.2 million deaths worldwide, the coronavirus has compelled people to draw...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Simi Mehta Tags: Asia-Pacific Civil Society Development & Aid Featured Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Are There Zombie Viruses — Like The 1918 Flu — Thawing In The Permafrost?
As if the pandemic weren't enough, people are wondering whether climate change will cause pathogens buried in frozen ground to come back to life as the Arctic warms. How worried should we be?(Image credit: Varham Muradyan for NPR) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - May 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Michaeleen Doucleff Source Type: news
Study finds overwhelming support for smoke-free policies among L.A. tenants, landlords
Half of apartment dwellers in Los Angeles report having been exposed to unwanted secondhand smoke in their homes in the last year, and 9 in 10 of them say they favor policies banning smoking from their buildings, a new study by researchers at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research reveals.Owners of multiunit housing properties in Los Angeles also expressed strong support, with 92% saying they favor smoke-free policies, according to the study, which surveyed more than 5,000 tenants and owners in some of the city ’s most densely populated areas.“We found that 1 in 2 tenants said that they were exposed to secondha...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - May 18, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Africa: Archaeology Shows How Ancient Societies Managed Pandemics
[The Conversation Africa] Every so often, a pandemic emerges that dramatically alters human society. The Black Death (1347 - 1351) was one; the Spanish flu of 1918 was another. Now there's COVID-19. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 15, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Without Universal Health Coverage We Are Sitting Ducks When the next Pandemic Strikes
The usually busy UN Avenue in Nairobi, Kenya where traffic is bumper to bumper on the best of days, is almost empty as people stay at home to avoid spreading the coronavirus. Credit: UN Kenya/Newton KanhemaBy Siddharth ChatterjeeNAIROBI, Kenya, May 14 2020 (IPS) We live in a different world to the one we inhabited six short months ago.
With more than 4 million people infected and over 280,000 dead globally by mid May 2020, Covid-19 has ruthlessly exposed the vulnerability of a globalised world to pandemic disease. People are slowly coming to terms with the frightening and heartbreaking death toll, and we are still not out ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Siddharth Chatterjee Tags: Africa Economy & Trade Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Covid-19 spreads to every African country - as it happened
Coronavirus may never be eradicated, warns WHO as Spanish study reveals 5% of the population has antibodies Coronavirus – live coverage12.31amBSTWe ’ve launched a new blog at the link below – head there for the latest:Related:Coronavirus live news: Trump 'surprised' by Fauci's reopening warnings as WHO says Covid-19 may never go12.07amBSTDonald Trump has ratcheted up his“Obamagate” conspiracy theory to implicate Joe Biden and other former White House officials in what critics say is a desperate attempt to distract from the coronavirus pandemic.Related:Trump deepens 'Obamagate' conspiracy theory with Biden unmaski...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 13, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Helen Sullivan (now and earlier); Kevin Rawlinson, Damien Gayle, Caroline Davies and Simon Burnton Tags: Coronavirus outbreak World news Science Infectious diseases Australia news UK news US news Asia Pacific Mexico Americas Middle East and North Africa China Russia Microbiology Medical research Europe Source Type: news
113-year-old woman beats coronavirus
Maria Branyas lived through the 1918 flu pandemic – and now, coronavirus. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - May 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
AP PHOTOS: Spanish ambulance workers fear virus rebound
After helping to flatten one of Europe’s sharpest contagion curves in the coronavirus pandemic, exhausted ambulance workers in Madrid fear that a resurgence in infections could throw them into another frantic period on the front line (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - May 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Deadly 2nd wave of Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 may hold clues for reopening today
As governments ease up on COVID-19-related lockdowns, policy-makers should heed the lessons learned from the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the potential deadly consequences of removing physical distancing restrictions too quickly, experts say. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - May 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/World Source Type: news
Psychology professor honored for pioneering work on ‘social cognition’
Shelley Taylor, distinguished research professor of psychology in the UCLA College and the founding scholar in the areas of social cognition, health psychology and social neuroscience, has been awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences.The BBVA Foundation praised Taylor, who has been on faculty at UCLA since 1979, as a pioneer of social cognition who revealed the role of cognitive bias in social relations. Social cognition is the process of people making sense of the social world — how people think about themselves, other people, social groups, human history and the future. This social k...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - May 13, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
What the 1918 flu pandemic can teach us
The 1918 flu was one the worst pandemics in history, infecting one-third of the world's population. How cities responded to the crisis in 1918 provides lessons on handling COVID-19 today. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - May 12, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Jessica Q. Chen, Maggie Beidelman Source Type: news
Spanish cafes reopen as daily death toll falls to seven-week low
Waiters in face masks served coffees and "bocadillo" sandwiches at cafe terraces in Seville on Monday as parts of Spain eased restrictions amid a slowing coronavirus epidemic that saw the number of new fatalities drop to a near two-month low. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
How Pandemics End
An infectious outbreak can conclude in more ways than one, historians say. But for whom does it end, and who gets to decide? (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - May 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Gina Kolata Tags: Epidemics Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Plague Smallpox Ebola Virus Influenza Epidemic (1918-19) Rats Antibiotics Bubonic Plague Fleas Microbiology Deaths (Fatalities) Vaccination and Immunization your-feed-science your-feed-health Source Type: news
