In response, countries are implementing societal measures aimed at curtailing transmission of SARS-CoV-22,3. Despite these measures, the COVID-19 epidemic could still result in millions of deaths as local health facilities become overwhelmed4. Advances in malaria control this century have been ...
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Some information for our workers from the FFCRA: The Family First Coronavirus Response Act The FFCRA will provide employees with paid sick leave and Expanded Family & Medical Leave for specified reasons related to Covid-19. These provisions will be in effect from April 1, 2020, through December...
Contact tracing is an important tool as part of a comprehensive COVID-19 response Contact tracing is most effective when the start of the process is closely linked to widespread testing. Contact tracing can require a large, dedicated public health workforce along with technology, tel...
Table 2. Timeline of government response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the stringency index in Hong Kong from January to July 2020. Date of 2020Public health measuresStringency index CategoryValueChange January 4 Activated “serious response level” for a novel infectious disease of public health ...
Other potential reasons could be the enactment of the Maltese “Protection of Vulnerable Persons Order, Public Health Act” during the first wave, where vulnearble people were coocooned with less chance of contracting not only SARS-CoV2 infection but also other infectious diseases [28, 29]. ...
South Africa. The coronavirus pandemic has fractured global relationships as governments act in the interest of their citizens first, but John Nkengasong, Africa's top public health official, has helped to steer the continent's 54 countries into an alliance praised as responding better than s...
The full text of the essay, "Responding to Covid-19: How to Navigate a Public Health Emergency Legally and Ethically," is available for free. "How we respond to this pandemic, whether we act ethically and safeguard the most vulnerable among us, will be a test of our humanity," Gostin...
than done. What creates a broad spectrum of public policy approaches in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the different weight associated by different decision-makers—and also by scientists—to the three value dimensions of the ethical compass, resulting in different trade-off points. The rec...
As federal COVID-19 public health emergency support and waivers expire, healthcare providers, payers, and other private stakeholders can strategically respond.