That data is mind-blowing, especially because many observers spent the fall worried about a “twindemic.” The minuscule flu season also raises a few questions: How can there be so many cases of one respiratory illness and so few of another? Why isn’t there always a tidy match between ...
A total of 28.6% workers were always vaccinated throughout the past three seasons, a remarkable 25.2% (mainly young and females) received for the first time the influenza vaccination in 2020/21.In this dramatic health crisis, the attitudes of HCWs toward flu vaccination have changed. The CO...
Between February 2022 and January 2023, an estimated 54 million U.S. COVID cases were unaccounted for as at-home testing rose in popularity.
In pregnant people, the immune system lowers its defenses so as not to attack the growing fetus. Thus, people become more vulnerable to flu-related complications during pregnancy, he explained. Young children's immune systems haven't encountered many germs before. "The immune responses to the [...
In many cases, local quality checks were insufficient due to time pressure, the increased bargaining power of suppliers, and the fact that many governments lacked access to local testing infrastructure. Outbound shipping was often delayed due to road transport bottlenecks on the way to ports ...
Not only does a push for a chickenpox vaccine protect a child and his or her classmates, it can also protect grandparents who may not have had chickenpox. Protecting the elderly is also the idea behind another vaccination that many of us line up for each winter: the flu shot. Between 12...
During 2020, as cases surged in waves, so did anger, re-emerging cyclically at each wave. Our real-time operationalization of Strong’s model is designed in a way that makes it possible to embed epidemic psychology into real-time models (e.g., epidemiological and mobility models)....
The themes describe the issues FPs encountered in balancing their personal and professional responsibilities, followed by the solutions they relied upon versus those they would have liked to have had—for both COVID-19 and future pandemic scenarios; and in many cases, these reflect the natural ...
In many countries, zero cases will not be the appropriate target, since it requires ongoing public-health measures that place significant restrictions on society, particularly on businesses and schools. Some countries are, therefore, resetting their expectations: ...
While many online sources do not have a page number, academic journals almost always do, even when they are available online. In most cases, the in-text citation is at the end of the sentence in parentheses. If you use the author’s name in the text, you don’t have to repeat it ...