Epidemic vs. Pandemic Medical professionals use the terms "epidemic" and "pandemic" to distinguish between the size and scale of a disease's spread. When there is an "epidemic," it generally refers to a sudden increase in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected.1 ...
Annual HIV infections in the United States have dropped by more than two-thirds since the height of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1980s, but the number of new infections has leveled off in recent years, according to the CDC. An estimated 1.2 million people in the U.S. have HIV, but ...
Therefore, the first epidemic wave in Wuhan (for the period December 1, 2019–March 31, 2020) is an opportunity to comprehensively quantify the disease burden and clinical severity of COVID-19. Here, we used multiple data sources to estimate age-specific rates of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 ...
Although the duration of follow-up for patients depends on the local epidemic situation of COVID-19, delay of 2-3 months seems to be reasonable even in higher risk patients. If possible, computed tomography (CT) of chest may also be performed when abdominal CT is performed as chest CT ...
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Our ability to forecast epidemics far into the future is constrained by the many complexities of disease systems. Realistic longer-term projections may, however, be possible under well-defined scenarios that specify the future state of critical epidemic
The entire country experienced the large-scale epidemic in the first season of 2020, which was named the emergency response stage. Since May 2020, China has entered the normalization stage of prevention and control [17]. In response to the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant, China...
Social media exposure, risk perception, preventive behaviors and attitudes during the COVID-19 epidemic in La Paz, Bolivia: A cross sectional study. PLoS One. 2021;16(1):e0245859 Available from: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245859 [cited 12 Feb 2021]....
Prior to the emergence of COVID-19, one of the most significant challenges in US health care policy was the opioid epidemic. In 2017, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared a public health emergency. Approximately 2 million people had an opioid use disorder and an es...