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Long-running ProMED email service for alerting world to disease outbreaks is in trouble
The first news about the COVID-19 pandemic came not from a government or a scientific publication, but in an email from a disease-alert system called ProMED . This fateful missive in December 2019 about a few cases of a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, China, is just one example of how physicians and public health experts around the world have used the 30-year-old, free service to share real-time information about local disease outbreaks with tens of thousands of subscribers. But ProMED is now on life support. Much of its work came to a screeching halt yesterday when 21 of its 38 paid editors and moderators went o...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - August 4, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

The Impact of Entry Restrictions on the Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Variants Between 2021 and 2022
This study explored the impact of border policy changes on overseas entrants and local cases of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Data from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency randomly collected between April 11, 2021 and August 20, 2022 were evaluated using the Granger causality model. The results showed that the outbreak gap of delta variants between international and domestic cases was 10 weeks, while that of omicron variants was approximately 2 weeks, meaning that the quarantine policy helped contain delta variants rather than more transmissible variants. It is recommended that countries implement quarantine policies ba...
Source: J Korean Med Sci - July 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jinwook Hong Ae Kyung Park Munkhzul Radnaabaatar Eun-Jin Kim Dong Wook Kim Jaehun Jung Source Type: research

How do primary hospitals enact early response to the relaxation of COVID-19 prevention and control measures? the experience from Chengdu, China
Am J Manag Care. 2023 Jun 1;29(6):e159-e161. doi: 10.37765/ajmc.2023.89373.ABSTRACTDue to the highly contagious nature of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 and its subvariants, a high rate of transmission was observed throughout Chengdu, China, within 2 weeks of the relaxation of COVID-19 measures on December 3, 2022, particularly in hospitals. Hospitals experienced different degrees of medical overcrowding during the first 2 weeks, with a high patient volume in the emergency departments and a significant lack of beds in the medical wards, particularly in the respiratory intensive care unit (ICU) and ICU. The authors' plac...
Source: The American Journal of Managed Care - June 21, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Yuwei Kang Junjie Mou Bo Lv Ping Liu Yuting Fu Wei Yang Wei Zhou Shijie Ma Sheng Xiao Run Wang Fei Deng Source Type: research