We focused on the policy category of “containment and closure,” which covers eight policies: school closings, workplace closings, cancelation of public events, restrictions on gathering sizes, cessation of public transportation, stay-at-home requirements, restrictions on internal movement, and ...
A study is needed to estimate the present value of human life losses caused by COVID-19 and to project potential indirect cost savings from COVID-19 vaccination in Madagascar. This economic evidence is crucial for advocating increased domestic and international investments in the NHS, IDSS, and ...
There are also new requirements in effect for outdoor mega events, including large sport arenas and theme parks, where all attendees age 12 or older will need to show proof of vaccination or a negative test result to enter. Beginning November 1, a photo ID...
Quebec is the latest province to become more strict with COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Ontario’s chief medical officer of health said Tuesday that employers in health and education will be required to ask workers about their vaccination status and that those who aren’t fully v...
Some researchers believe that this incident was unlikely to have affected childhood vaccination rates due to the widespread support for the government-funded National Immunization Program (NIP) combined with strict vaccination requirements for school enrollment in China18. However, up to now there has ...
to suit the specific requirements of each database. We used MeSH terms and relevant keywords related to pertussis, infants, burden of disease, pertussis vaccination, pregnant women, and the World Health Organization (WHO) list of countries in the EMR (see Additional file 2). Additionally, we ...
which we hereafter refer to simply as screening in most cases, is effective at the community level because it decreases transmission from individuals who are already infected7,9. However, policy proposals in 2021 and early 2022 shifted to focus routine testing requirements on only the unvaccinated ...
National responses varied greatly in both the speed of reaction and the extent of use of public health measures including requirements for screening mask wearing, social isolation, quarantining, lockdowns and border closures aiming to prevent the arrival and spread of infection. From the end of ...