28%) of studies published from the UK, Canada (N=7) and the USA (N=7) (Table2). Country-specific responses to the pandemic largely included border closures, mandatory lockdowns and restrictions on movement; it is interesting to note that Sweden did not mandate this but instead enforced s...
Masks and internal vaccine passports were dropped back in February 2022. Poland New entry as of March 28, 2022 As of March 28th, Poland has removed all of its Covid-related entry requirements, as well as most internal restrictions including lifting its indoor mask mandate and the ...
Our model applied national-level disease-specific OOP spending percentages to individual-level payments for services targeting that disease, which might not be a reasonable assumption for all disease areas or health services considered. Relatedly, the model did not account for health insurance coverage,...
AstraZeneca, Moderna, Novavax and Pfizer say they already have plans to react. Pfizer and its partner BioNTech say they have been monitoring for potential variants capable of evading its mRNA vaccine. Pfizer says in the event that ...
A result is a wait-and-see attitude among Singapore's leaders that trans- lates broadly into its current "not choosing sides" approach to Beijing and Washington; a position it has been trying to adopt since the 1990s. Sometimes described as "hedging", Singapore's policy is not so much ...
COVID-19. This paper reviews various strategies employed by different governments and organizations across nations that use advanced analytics to tackle pandemic. In the current emergency of corona virus, there have been several measures that organizations have taken to mitigate its impact, thanks to ...
that in the regions that did not issue similar mandates [20,21]. Major nonpharmaceutical interventions, such as lockdowns, had a larger effect on reducing the COVID-19 transmission compared with self-isolation, social distancing, ban of public events and school closure [22]. Rigorous contact ...