The unprecedented response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic disrupted the health care community. Consequently, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) adapted and expanded its policy priorities to meet the evolving needs of members and patients. To inform these efforts, the AGA launched ...
“My government’s top priority during this session and in the coming weeks will continue to be working to reduce the spread of COVID-19. In recent days, new public health orders have come into effect, and more will be added if required. But throughout the pandemic, ...
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the secretary-general of the United Nations called for solidarity in the face of one of the greatest challenges in the U.N.’s 75-year history. While António Guterres addressed the immediate health crisis, he was also careful to underline the longer...
Twitter may represent a powerful tool to help achieve this. Here, we explore the role of Twitter as used by Group of Seven (G7) world leaders in response to COVID-19. Methods This was a qualitative study with content analysis. Inclusion criteria were as follows: viral tweets from G7 ...
COVID-19 has put a rocket under global IoT adoption and all its previously unrealized quality-of-life benefits. Before COVID-19, there was no real sense of urgency in the adoption of IoT. During the pandemic, IoT is now far more a must have. ...
This essay represents the collective vision of a group of scholars in vocational psychology who have sought to develop a research agenda in response to the massive global unemployment crisis that has been evoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. The research agenda includes exploring how this unemployment ...
Premier Li sets the tone of his report by expressing that the government's response to COVID-19 amounted to putting the health and safety of the people above everything else. He lauded the successful defense of Wuhan and Hubei Province as part of the struggle against COVID-19. In particula...
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting changes in society due to social distancing measures, has showcased inequities in access to decent work and experiences of discrimination resulting in many of the vulnerable populations in the United States experiencing a much harsher impact on economic and ...
The COVID-19 lockdown created a new reality that basically overnight demonstrated what the future home would look like. Homes are experiencing an increase in heavy usage of high-bandwidth activities, such as video conferencing, streaming and gaming, in parallel with more connected hardware, ...
Henry Ward, the CEO of financial-services software firm Carta, exemplified this “buck stops here” approach in his recent announcement that 161 employees, 16 percent of the company, would be laid off in response to the COVID-19 crisis. In April 2020, Ward wrote, ...