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The New War on Bad Air
A century ago, a well-ventilated building was considered good medicine. But by the time Covid-19 arrived, our buildings could barely breathe. How did that happen? And how do we let the fresh air back in?
Source: NYT Health - June 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Anthes Tags: your-feed-science your-feed-health Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Heating, Ventilation and Cooling (HVAC) Workplace Environment Epidemics Wildfires Coronavirus Risks and Safety Concerns Centers for Disease Control and Prevention United States Source Type: news
‘It’s still killing and it’s still changing.’ Ending COVID-19 states of emergency sparks debate
The World Health Organization (WHO) today declared an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, days ahead of when a similar emergency in the United States is also set to expire. Both moves are likely to usher the world into a new phase of disease monitoring with a scaling back of surveillance and available resources to fight COVID-19.
WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a press conference today in Geneva that WHO’s emergency committee met yesterday and recommended ending the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the highest alert level WHO can declare, that h...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - May 5, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
'It ’s still killing and it’s still changing.' Ending COVID-19 states of emergency sparks debate
The World Health Organization (WHO) today declared an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, days ahead of when a similar emergency in the United States is also set to expire. Both moves are likely to usher the world into a new phase of disease monitoring with a scaling back of surveillance and available resources to fight COVID-19.
WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a press conference today in Geneva that WHO’s emergency committee met yesterday and recommended ending the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the highest alert level WHO can declare, that h...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - May 5, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Pandemic emergencies grind to a halt
The World Health Organization (WHO) today declared an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, days ahead of when a similar emergency in the United States is also set to expire. Both moves are likely to usher the world into a new phase of disease monitoring with a scaling back of surveillance and available resources to fight COVID-19.
WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a press conference today in Geneva that WHO’s emergency committee met yesterday and recommended ending the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the highest alert level WHO can declare, that h...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 5, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
China ’s Zero-COVID Trap
Protesters in China have demanded an end to the country’s draconian zero-COVID policy—a pandemic prevention strategy that President Xi Jinping claims has kept his people safer than less stringent measures taken by other nations—as the suffering it’s wrought is becoming increasingly unbearable.
Experts have said it’s unlikely the government will outright end zero-COVID anytime soon, though it may continue to tweak the policy. But even if Xi wanted to ditch the strategy altogether, as some localities are reportedly starting to do, that could bring about even more misery.
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Source: TIME: Health - December 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Chad de Guzman and Amy Gunia Tags: Uncategorized China COVID-19 overnight Source Type: news
This COVID-19 sleuth is making friends and foes advocating for African science
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This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
As Americans began to stir in the early morning hours of Thanksgiving Day 2021, a rapt international press corps was listening as a pony-tailed scientist in South Africa announced the identification of a worrisome new SARS-CoV-2 variant. Tulio de Oliveira, a Brazilian-born bioinformatician, explained that many of the variant’s dozens of mutations might make it more immune evasive and contagious—and that it was spreading “very fast” in South Africa.
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Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - October 6, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –1st October, 2022.
This article details information required for integration into EHRs to build personalized treatment plans and develop successful SDOH programs that provide resources and support for patients in need. In addition, successful SDOH programs implemented by Kaiser Permanente and Boston Medical Center showcase how supporting clinicians with real-time SDOH data can lead to patient-centric care. Create a 360-Degree Patient View Through TechnologyThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)indicatesthat the “collection, documentation, reporting, access, and use of SDOH data … can be used t...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Epidemiologic characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, other regions of China, and globally based on data gathered from January 2020 to February 2021
This observation study examines coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) data from outbreak and other sites in China and worldwide in order to examine the epidemiological pattern of COVID-19 before the acquisition of immunity through widespread vaccination and infection. COVID-19–related morbidity and mortality data for January 2020 to February 2021 were obtained from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the World Health Organization. The number of cases was logarithmically transformed for comparison of the rate of increase or decrease with time...
Source: Medicine - August 12, 2022 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Research Article: Observational Study Source Type: research
The Virus Hunters Trying to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Nobody saw SARS-CoV-2 coming. In the early days of the pandemic, researchers were scrambling to collect samples from people who had mysteriously developed fevers, coughs, and breathing problems. Pretty soon, they realized that the disease-causing culprit was a new virus humans hadn’t seen before.
And the world, lacking a coordinated global response, was unprepared. Some countries acted quickly to develop tests for the novel coronavirus, while others with fewer resources were left behind. With a virus oblivious to national borders, and with travel between countries and continents more common than it had been in previo...
Source: TIME: Health - August 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park and Video by Andrew D. Johnson Tags: Uncategorized Disease Frontiers of Medicine 2022 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
New head of U.S. aid program for HIV/AIDS vows to refocus attention on the other, ‘silent’ pandemic
On 13 June, John Nkengasong, 58, was appointed the first African-born head of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that helps more than 50 countries respond to their HIV/AIDS epidemics. Nkengasong, who grew up in Cameroon and became a U.S. citizen in 2007, previously ran the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
PEPFAR is credited with helping save more than 20 million lives since its inception in 2003. It had a $10.7 billion budget in 2021, more than half of it spent on HIV treatment and care. The agency has relied on an acting director since Deborah Birx...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - July 5, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Construction of COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control and Public Health Emergency Response System Based on Discrete Stochastic Mathematical Model
Comput Math Methods Med. 2022 Apr 13;2022:5693293. doi: 10.1155/2022/5693293. eCollection 2022.ABSTRACTThis research was aimed at exploring the construction and evaluation method of the comprehensive emergency response system for public health emergencies under the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) epidemic situation based on discrete stochastic mathematical model. The response of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) of Taiyuan city in the COVID-19 epidemic situation was taken as an example. A new discrete stochastic COVID-19 epidemic spread mathematical model which integrated public health intervention ...
Source: Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine - April 21, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Ying Yang Liming Dong Hua Rong None HongyuYang Bingxin Liu Source Type: research
An Epidemic Supplanted by a Pandemic: Vaping-Related Illness and COVID-19
South Med J. 2022 Jan;115(1):8-12. doi: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001344.ABSTRACTBefore the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, vaping-related illness was the prevailing public health concern. The incidence of vaping-related illnesses-mainly e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI)-went from a peak in September 2019 to a low in February 2020, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to discontinue the collection of EVALI case reports. Despite the decrease in EVALI with the arrival of COVID-19, EVALI should still be considered a differential diagnosis for people with COVID-...
Source: Southern Medical Journal - December 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Yoo Mee Shin Daniel P Hunt Joyce Akwe Source Type: research
