The R factor, a virus’ basic reproductive number, is referred to as R0– the average number of people someone carrying the virus will infect. The higher the R0, the faster an epidemic can spread. At the start of the pandemic, R0for SARS-CoV-2 was estimated at 2.0 to 2.5, indicating ...
Summary Report to the Global Pandemic Network Concerning Responses to COVID-19 in the USAdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3919845COVIDPandemicU.S. politicsThe thesis of this paper is that the initial response to COVID-19 in the U.S. was hampered by structural weaknesses in the U.S. political and health...
Read more on the report's conclusions here:WHO coronavirus report closes in on origin of pandemic: Summary But how has the world reacted to the release of the WHO's study? Error loading player: No playable sources found 00:46 Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-gene...
In terms of impact to social services and economy, COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all sectors negatively [20,21]. All countries have been affected regardless of the level of development. However, the effects have been more serious for the least developed countries where most of the African cou...
pandemic may be called a sexually dimorphic disease, early Chinese reports [1,2] and later global studies [3,4] having suggested that women are less susceptible to COVID-19, and female patients exhibit a significantly lower mortality rate compared with males. There are a number of postulation...
Although it has been about 6 months since the COVID-19 pandemic has spread, many researchers have done a lot of work on it and it is being worked on continuously. The following is a description of some of the researches presented.
The World Health Organization has a mandate to compile and disseminate statistics on mortality, and we have been tracking the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning of 20201. Reported statistics on COVID-19 mortality are problematic for
infection were also associated with the timing of NPIs. Without COVID-19 NPIs, influenza activity in China and the United States would likely have remained high during the 2019–2020 season. Our findings provide evidence that NPIs can partially mitigate seasonal and, potentially, pandemic influenza...
Tourism after Corona: Impacts of COVID 19 Pandemic and Way Forward For Tourism, Hotel and Mice Industry in Sri Lanka [Summary] Presently, this unprecedented public health crisis has become a catastrophic economic crisis to the entire globe and consequently the tourism hotel and eve... M Kamruzz...
Covid-19 pandemic has spread fast almost all countries in the world including Indonesia. In order to slow such pandemic confirmed cases, Indonesian local and central governments apply a lockdown-like policy. We call this Large-Scale Social Restriction (Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar, known as ...