The COVID-19 vaccine has been a miraculous, life-saving advance, offering staggering efficacy in adults, and was developed with astonishing speed. The time from sequencing the virus to authorizing the first COVID-19 vaccine was so brisk even the optimists appear close-minded. Yet, simultaneously...
Biodiversity loss and ecosystem health are strongly linked to human health Land-use change Intensive livestock production Wildlife trade Climate change Th effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on biodiversity loss and ecosystem health and drivers of zoonotic disease emergence Building a planetary health future...
The health, social, and economic burdens of long Covid are complicated and trying. Although the causes of long Covid remain uncertain, emerging research suggests an infectious disease origin for at least some portion of cases. We draw on a grey and white literature, media reports, and ...
we also exclude studies which solely analyze the effect of optimally timed lockdowns in contrast to less well-timed lockdowns, as they will by design find inflated effects of the average lockdown.Ifoptimal timing is important, these studies...
Government and HEIs need to do more to address the macro, meso and micro effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the student population, identifying areas of increased pressure for HE students related to the personal, professional, academic, and societal aspects of students’ daily life, which dir...
The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated a global mental health crisis, with a particularly pronounced impact on the entrepreneurial sector. This paper presents a comparative analysis of mental health challenges among entrepreneurs in China during the pand
“The mRNA enters cells and causes them to create spike proteins, “kind of a ‘loaded weapon,’ if you will.” “It’s now known that the spike protein itself is independently pathogenic: it causes damage itself” to the cells in which it is produced and then circulates in the body...
COVID-19 pneumonia causes hyperinflammatory response that culminates in acute respiratory syndrome (ARDS) related to increased multiorgan dysfunction and mortality risk. Antiviral-neutralizing immunoglobulins production reflect the host humoral status and illness severity, and thus, immunoglobulin (Ig) circul...
This causes it to spread like wildfire among people with weakened immune systems or inadequate immunity to the virus which causes Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2). However, measures to limit the spread of C-19 sometimes involve fatal tradeoffs, and thus, overreactions can destroy many more years of ...
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to the UN, everything bad you see in the news is linked to climate change. Or something like that. Covid-19 pandemic is ‘fire drill’ for effects of climate crisis, says UN official Lise Kingo says social equality issues must be part of sustainable...