Global & Public HealthInfectious DiseasesCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the second pandemic of the twenty-first century, with over one-hundred million infections and over two million deaths to date. It is a novel strain from the Coronaviridae family, named Severe Acute Respiratory ...
The COVID-19 health crisis has caused massive disruption worldwide in diagnosing and treating people with deadly but preventable diseases, including more than one in two cancer patients, UN health experts said on Friday. In a call to Governments everywhere to take greater steps to tackle non-com...
The striking racial/ethnic disparities reported for COVID-19 infection, testing, and disease burden are a clear reminder that failure to protect the most vulnerable members of society not only harms them but also increases the risk of spread of the virus, with devastating health and economic cons...
During a health crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, high-quality and resilient health systems have two tasks: respond to the crisis and maintain provision of other essential health services1,2,3. As of December 2021, more than 270 million people have been infected with COVID-19, leading ...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has created an economic crisis alongside a health care crisis. During the 2 weeks ending on March 28, nearly 10
health and substance use,”“COVID-19: Investing in Black lives and livelihoods,” and “A holistic approach to the US behavioral health crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic,” explore aninteractive map of vulnerable populations, and visit McKinsey’sCenter for...
COVID-19, which has spread rapidly and enveloped most of the world, is a global public health crisis the likes of which we have not seen in a century. After the outbreak, the Chinese government adopted the most comprehensive, stringent and thorough prevention and control measures in an ...
In October 2021, theAmerican Academy of Pediatrics found“soaring rates of mental health challenges among children, adolescents, and their families over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Two months later, Murthyissued an advisoryon the youth mental health crisis, emphasizing that mental h...
Deadly health crisis The health department's calculations show that COVID-19 killed 241.3 people in 100,000 New Yorkers, while the 1918 influenza pandemic, the most severe pandemic of the 20th century, killed 228.9 people in 100,000.COVID-19 tended to kill the elderly, while the 1918 ...
health and economic crisis. Significantly, no pharmaceutical agents are known to be safe and effective at preventing or treating coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the resulting illness.3This leaves the medical and public health community with only nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to rely on...