Notwithstanding attempts to preserve western hegemony and a western liberal world order, the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate and intensify existing trends towards a global reset, a shift in the centre of econ
The world experienced the severity of the 125 nm virus called the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a pandemic declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019. Many investigations revealed a strong correlation between humidity and temperature relative to the kinetics of the virus’s...
Specifically, the country recorded more than 7 million confirmed infections and a mortality rate exceeding 146,000 individuals, from January 2019 to October 2024 by the Worldometer website (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/iran/). While the majority of COVID-19 cases result in ...
We then examine how the relation between a country-level determinant and COVID-19 outcomes varies over time by plotting the weekly coefficients. We find that most relations are highly persistent over time. In addition, we perform dominance analysis to evaluate the relative statistical importance of ...
In this paper we review the availability of national sex-disaggregated surveillance data on COVID-19 and examine trends on the testing-to-outcome pathway. We further analyse the availability of data according to the economic status of the country and investigate the determinants of sex differences,...
As of November 12, 2020, the mortality to incidence ratio (MIR) of COVID-19 was 5.8% in the US. A longitudinal model-based clustering system on the disease trajectories over time was used to identify “vulnerable” clusters of counties that would benefit
Despite these efforts, COVID-19 treatment is still solely based on clinical management through supportive care. We aim to highlight the recent trends in COVID-19, relevant statistics, and clinical findings, as well as potential therapeutics, including in-line treatment methods, preventive measures,...
COVID-19 has a direct impact on the employment of older people. This adds to the challenge of ageism. The World Health Organization has started a worldwide campaign to combat ageism and has called for more research and evidence-based strategies that have
19 vaccination on a sample of countries, from an income perspective. We used the World Bank country classifications by income, this typology being accepted internationally. The established thresholds for distinguishing the groups of countries are expressed in gross national income (GNI) per capita in...
U.S. Daily Deaths 6.26.2020 (Source: Worldometers.com) The new cases in the U.S. continue to be concentrated in the south and the southwest. New records are being set almost daily in places like Texas, Arizona, Florida and California, while weekly records are being set in such differe...