The epidemic will last for a long time in Germany and other countries, especially with a global outbreak ongoing. To end the outbreak in a very short time requires extreme measures, which many countries are not ready to take. China has taken the most active measures since the beginning, beca...
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Influenza vaccination is recommended to special groups Step 2 : Get Vaccinated People who should receive influenza vaccination: • Elderly persons living in residential care homes • Long-stay residents of institutions for the disabled • Elderly persons aged 65 years or above • Perso...
We compared the results obtained via word-matching with a state-of-the-art deep learning tool for Natural Language Processing designed to capture fundamental types of social interactions from conversational language (Choi et al., 2020). This tool uses Long Short-Term Memory neural networks (LSTMs...
The database records the level of strictness on international travel from 01 January 2020 to the present (continually updated), categorized into five levels: 0 - no restrictions; 1 - screening arrivals; 2 - quarantine arrivals from some or all regions; 3 - ban arrivals from some regions; ...
Experience with a disease can both stimulate and discourage preventive behaviors. Shahrabani and Benzion [46] showed that vaccination was perceived less beneficial after influenza-infection. Though, knowing others that suffered from a disease has been positively associated with preventive health behavior ...
Factors influencing psychological distress during a disease epidemic: data from Australia's first outbreak of equine influenza BMC Public Health, 8 (2008), p. 347 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar 29 Y Wang, B Xu, G Zhao, R Cao, X He, S Fu Is quarantine related to immediate negative psychologi...
All studies were con‑ ducted in high-income countries, all but three focused on SARS-CoV-2 with the rest focusing on influenza or upper- respiratory tract infections. The evidence indicates that a combination of different measures and hand hygiene interventions can be ...
influenza in two contrasting countries, namely, Belgium and Martinique, as case studies, to assess the specific roles of human mobility on infection propagation. Interestingly, we found in both cases thatTfifollows a truncated power law as a function of RA, indicating a one-to-one relationship ...