The world was not prepared for this pandemic. While countries affected by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 responded quickly and efficiently to the early warnings of covid-19, most stumbled at the first hurdle and are still not catching up. For a rich nation, the UK has ...
The World Health Organization has finally labeled COVID-19 as a pandemic, but does it change anything or is it just semantics?
I would like to draw your attention urgently to important issues related to the next Covid-19 vaccination. byRobert F. Kennedy Jr. For the first time in the history of vaccination, the so-called last generationmRNA vaccinesintervene directly in the genetic material of the patient ...
The pandemic's impact on mental health throughout our society will likely outlive COVID-19. Asclinical psychologistsand trauma researchers, our team is interested in understanding mental health risk and resilience factors during COVID-19. In terms of high-risk groups from a mental health perspectiv...
The World Health Organization has been criticized for being slow to declare a public health emergency and a pandemic as COVID-19 spread. Yale SOM's Saed Alizamir, with Francis de Véricourt of ESMT and Shouqiang Wang of the University of Texas at Dallas,recently published a studythat uses ...
The abrupt end to the COVID pandemic is reminiscent of the abrupt end to the 1918 flu pandemic (1917–1919) [13]. However, while there is some sequential data on the 1918 and later H1N1 flus, it is not easy to identify simple patterns in their evolution. ...
China is currently at a critical juncture, where Xi is leading the country to realize the ambitious "Chinese modernization," while being confronted with major challenges, such as downward economic pressure following the COVID-19 pandemic, rising protectionism and suppression from Western nations, and...
All told, long Covid is a $3.7 trillion drag on the U.S. economy — about 17% of our nation's pre-pandemic economic output, said David Cutler, an economist at Harvard University. The aggregate cost rivals that of the Great Recession, Cutlerwrotein a July report. ...
The Covid-19 crisis has revealed that the current European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has neither the funding, the staff or – perhaps most importantly – the authority to lead an effective response to a pandemic in Europe.
"This is the way we can stop this thing dead even before we have a vaccine." byAli Pattillo Updated:Feb. 21, 2024 Originally Published:May 21, 2020 Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of masks has beenhotly debated. The vast majority of public health authorities agree that masks...