Performers in this photo prepare at the 94th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Nov. 26, 2020. The event was one of few public occasions to be kept on schedule during the COVID-19 pandemic, albeit in a tempered manner. Much of the performances were pre-taped and the parade route...
This article describes the Colorado planning initiative directed at needed planning for contingency and crisis standards to assure appropriate palliative care and hospice services in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Introduction During a disaster or pandemic, as in usual times, every attempt shoul...
This point takes on increased urgency during the current Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, because meat processing employees across Europe have been identified as a group particularly vulnerable to contracting the virus (van der Zee, 2020). The next two questions seek to examine how agriculture might ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has offered us a glimpse into a different reality. A reality in which human contact and face-to-face interaction have to be carefully managed to safeguard lives. A reality in which the availability and application of innovative technologies matter as never before, n...
How do we measure the mortality rate attributed to AMR in LMICs, where there is still a significant gap in the availability of surveillance data? Therefore, predicting the impact of new antibiotics over time is a huge and almost impossible task in Africa, mainly due to difficulties in ...
Acute kidney injury (AKI) was a frequent co-morbidity of the virus in hospitalized patients, and the need quickly exceeded the availability of nephrology nurses and hemodialysis equipment. [...]we have long known about the existence of health care inequities, especially in patients with kidney ...
With the acceleration of digitalization and informatization, the financial industry has turned its focus to ensuring the high availability of infrastructure. Financial institutions and organizations whose businesses depend on data have high requirements on the security, business continuity, disaster recovery,...
“People hate changing ‘vessels,’ so we need a fast, comfortable and convenient integrated transit system that encourage people to use the optimum modes of transport. What’s absolutely critical here is the availability of high-quality mobility data that allows mobility systems to planned and ...
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has included societal use of PPE, such as masks and face shields, in its recommendations for easing restrictions.4Experience and evidence, even during this pandemic, suggest that health care workers rarely acquire infections during patient care when ...
Use of social media, especially high daily use, has been associated with negative mental health, including anxiety, depression and social media addiction. Social media induced stresses include approval anxiety, fear of missing out, availability stress (the demand to be permanently available), connectio...