” explains Baillie. “The reason for our approach is that, by definition, the people who end up on life-support machines are extremely susceptible to the disease, and that’s where the strongest genetic signals will lie.”
The COVID-19 pandemic fits the definition of a focusing event: an unexpected, rare, and harmful event that holds the attention of both policy makers and the public (Agendas, 2013; Birkland, 1997). It therefore offers an excellent opportunity for community midwives and their advocates to lobby...
Nevertheless, this large multi-centre international study still arguably provides the most comprehensive investigation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on both people with dementia and their carers, to date. It is worth noting that the severity (e.g. multiple waves and peaks in case ...
Thus, engineering education must simultaneously work on two complementary tasks: on the one hand, the definition of the skills and competencies for graduating engineers, and on the other hand, the development of effective teaching methods that help to reduce the gap between knowledge and action [...
The first area included the common and shared definition of the theme, and aimed at analyzing several aspects, such as specific needs related to the theme, practices already implemented and possible in the future (organizational methods, procedures, policies, actions), and finally the point of ...
Confirmed deaths are individuals who have died and meet the definition for a confirmed Covid-19 case. Some states reconcile these records with death certificates to remove deaths from their count where Covid-19 is not listed as the cause of death. We follow health departments in removing non-...
The reason is the need to find innovative ways of compensating for the loss of attention and income if new limitations or restrictions are set on holding face-to-face sporting events. Although there is no commonly accepted definition, eSports usually refers to “organized professional competition ...
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First, by definition, the required case data for the determination of individual incubation periods need to include both exposure (window) and onset of symptoms. In most studies, the data were collected retrospectively, resulting in a recall bias (uncertain exact dates of exposure) that would ...
It is left to the teams' discretion how to implement immune escape in their models. Teams may choose to introduce new discrete variants with levels of immune escape consistent with the scenario definition, so long as these occur frequently, or may implement gradual escape of existing variants. ...