Efforts to contain the spread ofCOVID-19includesocial distancing, a term for measures (such as avoiding mass gatherings) taken to reduce close contact between people.Learn more aboutsocial distancingand related terms in ourcoronavirusglossary. ...
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China’s official COVID-19 death toll stands at over 5,200. The country’s low reporting has been questioned throughout the pandemic. Public health experts, including at the World Health Organization, have said such a definition is too narrow. “People who die of C...
It contains the scales work orientation (willingness to fulfill one’s own obligations and responsibilities), self-reliance (willingness to take the initiative, without allowing others to exercise excessive control) and identity (a clear definition and knowledge about oneself, comprising the own’s ...
It is evident from Galtung’s definition of violence that all the causal chain of factors that made FSWs one of the most marginalised and vulnerable sections of the society form part of his idea of “Structural Violence”. We have scrutinitized the cyclical nature of historical factors which ...
Fig. 2: Transcriptomic hallmarks of COVID-19.a Clustering of differentially expressed mRNAs and bubble plot showing GO terms enriched in each cluster across four disease severity groups. Red and blue represent up-regulation or down-regulation of genes in corresponding GO term in an investigated ...
000 COVID hospital admissions at the more than 100 VA hospitals across the country. Then they checked to see whether each patient required supplemental oxygen or had a blood oxygen level below 94 percent. (The latter criterion is based on the National Institutes of Healthdefinitionof “severe ...
The flowchart outlines how the excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated. By definition, this is the difference between the all-cause mortality (ACM) during the pandemic period and that which was expected had the pandemic not occurred (light-green). Starting with the ...
— An individual who is not eligible for a booster pursuant to the CDC definition. — An individual who is in the 90-day test holiday after a confirmed positive COVID-19 test under the league protocols. — An individual who received monoclonal antibodies within the immediately preceding 90 day...
This term carries the same definition as epidemic, but it is often used for a more limited geographic area. "Initially outbreaks like this usually are detected by detection of a cluster, so a group of cases of similar illness or disease. If it's not contained at that point, then it coul...