In the early stages of an outbreak, the term ‘pandemic’ can be used to communicate about infectious disease risk, particularly by those who wish to encourage a large-scale public health response. However, the term lacks a widely accepted quantitative definition. We show that, under alternate ...
The timing of such a transition will depend on the progress toward herd immunity, as previously detailed (since more people with immunity means fewer deaths and long-term health consequences), and on the effectiveness of a country’s public-health response. Transitions will be gradual. They hav...
Infectious endophthalmitis remains a serious possible complication of all penetrating eye injuries and intraocular procedures [111], but it may also arise spontaneously, rarely in otherwise completely asymptomatic individuals, as well as those with serious systemic infections, following haematogenous spread o...
Isolation is a health care term that means separating people who are contagious from people who aren't. If you have COVID-19, you'll be isolated because you may infect others. There are two types of isolation: Medical isolation.At hospitals, health care centers, and prisons, the staff sep...
Using the forest-transition model and a proximate cause of deforestation to explain long-term forest cover trends in a Caribbean forest Land Use Policy, 71 (2018), pp. 395-408 Google Scholar [70] W. Reisen, Y. Fang, V. Martinez Avian host and mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) vector competen...
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INTRODUCTION: Nigeria aims to eradicate public-health threats such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B virus (HBV) by 2030. However, to achieve the short- and medium-term response target, and end the epidemic by 2030, there is the need to monitor and estimate th
In our estimates of economic cost of lockdown, we consider only productivity loss, which may be a reasonable approach in the immediate short term. However, the economic loss due to lockdown in the long run, is likely to be far greater as it would include demand side effects due to loss...
Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction is frequently observed in asymptomatic diabetic patients, and it can be effectively detected by increased natriuretic peptide38. Serial monitoring of NT-proBNP in T2DM patients may be useful to identify patients at highest risk of HF39, and guidelines recommend ...
It was only when Termnius 2049 started memorializing articles about Wuhan that the authorities took action. Meet the truthtellers Chen Mei was perhaps an unlikely hero of the coronavirus pandemic. Chen Mei Chen Mei What he did Archived and republished articles about the early days of the coronavi...