We surveyed American adults during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic to examine who is more or less likely to use video chat for various types of social gatherings when in-person interactions are less available, and how such gatherings associate with feelings of social connectedness. We...
Sammy Carolus(GM Hyatt Regency Bangkok Sukhumvit): We had an enquiry for a small Thai wedding of 20-25 persons for late May 2020. Due to current government restrictions on gatherings we suggested that they might look at a later date. But this is how we envisioned the occasion with current ...
This includes the number of family members, friends, people at religious services, and people at other social gatherings you saw in person. (IF NECESSARY: Please do not include those you saw for work-related reasons.)” As a measure of civic capital, we use a measure of generalized trust,...
gatherings even when properly distanced, spring break photos, pulling pranks, spending time outside, etc. - have become taboo and are increasingly the target of vitriol (Brown, 2020;Fox, 2020;Harris, 2020;St. Michel, 2020). Thus, the outside-in self-disclosure decisions during the pandemic ...
doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.2915 COVID-19 Resource Center Key Points Question Is there an association between household birthdays, which likely correspond to informal social gatherings, and COVID-19 infection? Findings This cross-sectional study used administrative health care data on 2.9 million ...
Xiye Bastida’s parents met at a United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, and as she was growing up, climate was a regular topic of conversation at dinnertime and family gatherings. In 2015, when she was 13, Bastida’s hometown, San Pedro Tultepec, about 30...
Sweden was well equipped to prevent the pandemic of COVID-19 from becoming serious. Over 280 years of collaboration between political bodies, authorities, and the scientific community had yielded many successes in preventive medicine. Sweden’s populatio
at large gatherings (>10 people) of family and friends Not surprisingly, SARS-CoV-2 is spreading wherever a lot of people are getting together. Hopefully, understanding that can help us all avoid getting sick with COVID-19! “Regardless of the origin of superspreading, we emphasize the partic...
The first set of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were put in place in mid-March, when schools were closed, public gatherings were banned, and passengers traveling from high-risk countries were mandated to self-isolate for 14 days. However, the adopted measures were not able to contain ...
The orders we consider are state of emergency declarations (SOE), public school closings, bans on dine-in restaurants, restrictions on entertainment, bans on gatherings above 50 people, and SAH restrictions. The business services industry is unique in that employers’ decisions about employee remote...