Challenges for older people in Singapore have been no different from those that affect older people across the world. The country, fortunately, has been able to bring community transmission of COVID-19 down to the minimum. Initiatives in response to the first two waves were targeted towards inte...
No statistically significant relationships were discerned between the dependent variable SUHI and the independent polluting variables, either in inland cities or coastal cities, during confinement or non-confinement periods. 3.2. Environmental pollutants The average daily air pollution values taken into ...
Independent Task Force on Global Food Security. (2017, March 30). Stability in the 21st century: Global food security for peace and prosperity. Retrieved from https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/publication/stability-21st-century-global-food-security-peace-and-prosperity Li, X., Zhou, Y., Wong...
In addition, our findings showed that psychological changes in health indicators during the COVID-19 pandemic were independent of age. This study has clearly shown that the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was “good stress” that prompted both women and men to exercise more independently ...
The chi-squared test of independence was used to determine whether the frequency distribution of one categorical variable is independent of the frequency distribution of another categorical variable. Finally, Kendall’s Tau B correlation analysis was used to determine the association between two ordinal ...
In addition, triangulation of other outputs of the SEIR model, such as the proportion of the population that are affected, are also provided and tested against independent data, in this case seroprevalence surveys (Extended Data Fig.9). Finally, because uncertainty compounds with increased distance...
Singapore’s government has announced that it will make this shift, and more countries may follow its lead.96 Other authors have compared the burden of COVID-19 with that of other diseases, such as influenza, as a way to understand when endemicity might occur.97 In the United States, CO...
Two independent reviewers screened, selected studies, and examined their quality. We summarized the non-NIP vaccine coverage data by vaccine and applied the 5A framework (Access, Affordability, Acceptance, Awareness, Activation) to chart and analyze barriers to increasing coverage. Results A total of...
(at the end of the survey precluding any effects on the prior questions) regarding COVID-19 fear and prevalence, desired Tightness-Looseness measures, generalized trust, and risk aversion. The survey was translated into 30 different languages, following the standard practice of independent translation...
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