3.1. Positive rates Positive rate is an important COVID-19 parameter. Testing more people for COVID-19 provides more details on infection rates and enables us to grasp the scale of the COVID-19 spread in Japan. The Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan announced that th...
They found that a positive and significant association between PM2.5 and COVID-19 mortality rates. In particular, a 1 unit increase in PM2.5 is related to an 8% increase in the COVID-19 fatality rate. Pansini and Fornacca (2020), using Kendall's tau and Pearson correlation coefficient, ...
get serious, or even life-threatening. Staying up to date with vaccines can help prevent serious infection. You can also protect yourself and others by taking extra precautions, such as wearing a mask and avoiding crowds when infection rates are high. ...
pregnant women with symptomatic COVID-19 might be at an increased risk for severe illness than non-pregnant peers; and children appear to have a lower risk for symptomatic COVID-19 but similar rates of infection, making them potential transmitters of the virus [...
The UK government’s decision to only display the total number of deaths in each of the countries shown took no account of even basic differences between countries such as population size; and as Table 1 has already shown, this makes fair comparison of death rates difficult. It might seem un...
mortality rates in most places were not significantly higher than usual. A second or autumn wave spread around the world from September to November 1918 and was very fatal. In many countries, a third wave occurred in early 1919. Contemporary observers concluded from the clinical similarities that...
As noted earlier, Singapore had low initial take-up rates for the contact trace app at the start of the pandemic in early 2020. This was followed by a second wave of infections which might have motivated a number to consequently download the app. Of those living in the UK, 71 people (...
In Q1 2021, ad spend rose just 0.8% year-on-year to £6.5 billion. This result is thought to be down to continued UK lockdown measures causing more large declines across some verticals and further increases across online formats. Despite this, predictions for the year end remain very stron...
Previously for the SARS outbreak, due to quarantine, high rates of depression and anxiety among people were visible. This pandemic also created psychological issues including depression, frustration and stress while survey was conducted with 1182 individual in New Delhi, India which included different ...
valence also in February. This can be explained by the earliest tensions in the two states’ responses to COVID-19. From March till June, the tone is mainly neutral, while in May and June is significantly increased, with that being attributed to the country’s growing infection rates. ...