Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has created an economic crisis alongside a health care crisis. During the 2 weeks ending on March 28, nearly 10 million people filed for unemployment insurance, dwarfing any previous monthly numbers. Estimates suggest that the US economy will contract by 10% ...
The elderly are a special group that is affected by this condition. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on older adults in terms of disability, state-trait anxiety and life satisfaction. Methods:The population of this cross-sectional study consisted ...
"Since the beginning of the pandemic, food workers have been at high risk of COVID-19 infection because of their daily contact with a large number of people," said Denis Boudreau, a professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Université Laval. "However, there is still no precis...
2022年10月18日下午,我院金融系苏荣斌老师为金融系全体教师作“How does the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic affect the interactions between the stock, oil, gold, currency, and cryptocurrency markets?”的主题讲座。 讲座中,苏荣斌老师结合详尽的PPT课件及丰富的投稿经验,分享整个投稿过程中如期刊在初审阶...
Enough time has passed since the 2020 presidential election that we can now ask: What effect did COVID-19, arguably the biggest event of the year — of the century, even — have on the election outcome? The answer to this question probably seems straightforward considering how abysmally Americ...
A decreased or altered sense of smell—called olfactory dysfunction—is a common symptom experienced by individuals with COVID-19. As described in an article published in The Laryngoscope, researchers recently searched the medical literature for studies
Covid-19 Traffic safety Pandemic Crashes Injury-severity analysis 1. Introduction The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was declared a public health emergency in January 2020 and upgraded to a pandemic in Ma...
How does COVID-19 affect children? Back in June and July this year, the current wave of COVID-19 was mainly being driven by people in the 18-35 year old age bracket (orange line in the graph below). However, while cases in that group have fallen, we are now seeing a concerning ri...
2020 is the last year of China's 13th Five-Year Plan (FYP). However, the sudden COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the original pace of production and life. It's also a major test for the country's public health system. "The practice of fighting COVID-19 exposed many loop...
Recent research indicates that during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the proportion of working-aged U.S. adults without health insurance did not change despite increases in unemployment, and the prevalence of unhealthy behaviors decreased. The