The spread of infectious diseases was further promoted due to busy cities, increased travel, and climate change, which led to outbreaks, epidemics, and even pandemics. The world experienced the severity of the 125 nm virus called the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a pandemic declared ...
COVID-19, the disease caused by the novelcoronavirus,has rapidly spreadand reached the stage ofpandemic. Cities, states and countries mandated quarantines. Health care systems scrambled to contain outbreaks and entire industries have shut down. Tech giants were hit hardby supply chain problemsand s...
BEIJING, March 19 (Xinhua) -- In a nationwide mobilization to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), China has taken effective measures to achieve remarkable results. Here is a flashback of China's actions: March 19: -- Chinese mainland reported zero increase in domes...
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 represented a unique opportunity to investigate it empirically. This study focuses on the exploration of the resilience strategies adopted to deepen their temporal characteristics and contribute to developing the current understanding of proactivity and ...
COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people all across the world. As a result, there has been a collective effort to monitor, predict, and control the spread of this disease. Among this effort is the development of mathematical models that could capture accurately the available data and simulate clos...
On the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, high-risk and vulnerable groups in the population were at particular risk of severe disease progression. Pregnant women were one of these groups. The infectious disease endangered not only the physical hea
As the first global lockdown in the digital age, COVID-19 changed people’s habits on many different levels. Physical distancing, i.e., reducing human-to-human interactions to slow the spread of the virus, had become commonplace. Note that, although it is commonly also referred to as soci...
We aimed to quantify the impact of temperature on the transmissibility and virulence of COVID-19 in Tokyo, Japan, employing two epidemiological measurements of transmissibility and severity: the effective reproduction number (\(R_{t}\)) and case fatality risk (CFR). We estimated the \(R_{t}...
The paper highlights US health policy and technology responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from January 1, 2020 – August 9, 2020. Methods A review of primary data sources in the US was conducted. The data were summarized to describe national and state-level trends in the spread of COVID-19...
Piano tuner Flora Villareal talks to a client (not pictured) in a recording studio amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Havana, Cuba, October 12, 2020. Picture taken October 12, 2020. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini HAVANA (Reuters) - Fl...