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Juvekar, Meenesh, and Baisali Sarkar. "Guidelines for otology surgery in coronavirus-19 pandemic." International Journal of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery 6, no. 9 (August 25, 2020): 1753. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/issn.2454-5929.ijohns20203589.
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<p class="abstract">Measures to be taken by the clinicians involved in Otology surgery in light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Current finding about COVID-19 infection and its relation with SARS-CoV 2 virus is evaluated and possible safety measure guidelines to be taken while doing Otological procedures is reviewed. Wearing PPE kit (N95 mask, double gloves, respirator, eye protection, face shield, gown, shoe cover ), limited attendance to essential personnel, using negative pressure room, using double drape system and proper removal of patient drape after rhinology operation reduces the risk of SARS-CoV 2 virus spread via aerosol into the environment. Emergent and Urgent otology surgery need prompt treatment, thus proper COVID-19 protocols should be maintained while doing otology surgery like wearing PPE ( N95 mask, double gloves, respirator, eye protection, face shield, gown, shoe cover ), limit attendance to essential personnel and use negative pressure room are undertaken. Double draping of the operating site is essential while drilling and suctioning and it’s too carried out under the plastic tent to reduce aerosol spread in the environment. Proper removing of the tent setup, including rolling of patient drape is needed to reduce aerosol spread. Otology surgeries should adhere to general guidelines set for high-risk procedures.</p>
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Jahan, Farheen, and Rashmi Sapkal. "COVID- 19 Dental Implications." International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology 5, no. 6 (June 26, 2020): 329–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt20jun364.
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This article covers a lot of topic about coronavirus and covid-19 dental implication. Given the wealth of information about coronavirus, this paper attempted to present in different ways. In the first part of this paper, author cover all about coronavirus and in second part, cover dental implications i.e. case selection for dental treatment, before any dental treatment what protocol used in institutions and dental clinics, how to manage staff and students in institutions and dental clinics, treatment wise recommendations and how to manage covid-19 patient either confirmed cases or suspected cases. Lastly,how to change oral medicine and radiology department setup during and after pandemic. What to accept in future and How too little brighter attitude towards this entire pandemic situation
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Kumar, Nisheeth, and Tangjakhombi Akoijam. "Student’s Perception toward Online Classes during COVID-19 Pandemic - Hotel Management Students." International Journal of Research and Review 8, no. 4 (April 19, 2021): 180–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20210424.
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COVID-19 (‘CO' stands for corona, 'VI' for the virus, and 'D' for disease) has been categorized as a pandemic in March 2020 by WHO. Due to this pandemic, the academic institutions were closed on orders by various state and central government agencies of India. The academic institutions were shut down in between the running academic session. Thus the teachers adopted various online modes for conducting classes to cover the syllabus which was pending. With the help of various technological tools like Zoom, Cisco, Google meet, etc., the academic institution could cover their syllabus. This study was performed to study the student’s perception toward the online classes during COVID-19 Pandemic. The study was performed on the present students who are pursuing Hotel management courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels from various academic institutions of India. Keywords: COVID-19, Academic, Online classes, perception, Hotel management, Institutions.
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Stepanova, Olena. "COVID-19 pandemic and fiscal sustainability." Economy and forecasting 2020, no. 2 (October 12, 2020): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/econforecast2020.02.005.
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The article deals with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the financing of the health care system, and the main challenges to the stability of the financial mechanisms of post-pandemic health care development have been identified. The author substantiates the peculiarities of the crisis of health care financing in the conditions of the current pandemic, further economic recession and decreased fiscal sustainability. The global practice of fiscal response to the manifestations of the COVID-19 pandemic has been systematized and the volumes of the corresponding financing in the countries with insurance and budgetary systems of health care financing have been estimated. The article identifies mechanisms for the transformation and expansion of the fiscal space in the context of expanded financing of the growing need for medical care in the face of new epidemic risks in different countries. Most often, the expansion of a country's fiscal space is carried out by: redistributing the existing amount of government expenditure for health care and redirecting funding flows from financing certain types of medical care to financing programs to overcome and combat COVID-19; changes in the priority of government health expenditure to combat COVID-19 compared to other budget expenditures on the social sphere and economic development; and using national reserve funds and emergency funds. It has been found that in the field of health care, the vast majority of countries have reduced the economic and territorial deprivation of all population groups in access to the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. The author emphasizes the weaknesses of insurance based and decentralized health financing mechanisms to respond to the growing need for health care and financial stability during the pandemic. Substantiated the necessity to expand the fiscal space needed to cover the fiscal gap in Ukraine caused by the requirement to increase health care financing in response
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Benson, Ruth A., and Sandip Nandhra. "Study protocol for COvid-19 Vascular sERvice (COVER) study: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the provision, practice and outcomes of vascular surgery." PLOS ONE 15, no. 12 (December 30, 2020): e0243299. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243299.
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Background The novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having a profound impact on global healthcare. Shortages in staff, operating theatre space and intensive care beds has led to a significant reduction in the provision of surgical care. Even vascular surgery, often insulated from resource scarcity due to its status as an urgent specialty, has limited capacity due to the pandemic. Furthermore, many vascular surgical patients are elderly with multiple comorbidities putting them at increased risk of COVID-19 and its complications. There is an urgent need to investigate the impact on patients presenting to vascular surgeons during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods and analysis The COvid-19 Vascular sERvice (COVER) study has been designed to investigate the worldwide impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vascular surgery, at both service provision and individual patient level. COVER is running as a collaborative study through the Vascular and Endovascular Research Network (VERN), an independent, international vascular research collaborative with the support of numerous national and international organisations). The study has 3 ‘Tiers’: Tier 1 is a survey of vascular surgeons to capture longitudinal changes to the provision of vascular services within their hospital; Tier 2 captures data on vascular and endovascular procedures performed during the pandemic; and Tier 3 will capture any deviations to patient management strategies from pre-pandemic best practice. Data submission and collection will be electronic using online survey tools (Tier 1: SurveyMonkey® for service provision data) and encrypted data capture forms (Tiers 2 and 3: REDCap® for patient level data). Tier 1 data will undergo real-time serial analysis to determine longitudinal changes in practice, with country-specific analyses also performed. The analysis of Tier 2 and Tier 3 data will occur on completion of the study as per the pre-specified statistical analysis plan.
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Rempel, David. "Scientific Collaboration During the COVID-19 Pandemic: N95DECON.org." Annals of Work Exposures and Health 64, no. 8 (June 13, 2020): 775–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/annweh/wxaa057.
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Abstract Many academics and researchers have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by forming on-line national and international collaborative groups to rapidly investigate issues of prevention and treatment. This commentary describes the spontaneous formation of an international team of 115 researchers who summarized the literature on safe methods for decontaminating N95 filtering facepiece respirators in response to the supply crisis. The summary reports and fact sheets on the (www.n95decon.org) website have had more than 200 000 unique visits and the organization’s webinars have reached health care professionals from more than 50 countries. The team is extending its mission to cover other personal protective equipment. The success of these collaborations may alter how scientific questions are tackled in the future.
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Jovanović, Slobodan. "Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the insurance industry." Tokovi osiguranja 37, no. 1 (2021): 41–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/tokosig2101041j.
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In this paper, the author analyses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on internal and external aspects of insurance organizations, and particularly on insurance terms and conditions. The introductory part provides general remarks on the impact of the pandemic on community and economy, also defining the subject of the paper. In the second part, the author explores how insurers responded to new working conditions and behaved in relation to their self-organization and to the public and the insured persons. Particular developments in a macroeconomic and political context relating to covering losses from COVID-19 are also analyzed. The author concludes that a certain delay in making the amendments and supplements to the list of communicable diseases was justified, whereas the main characteristic of extended cover for COVID-19 provided by domestic insurers is not the reimbursement of medical treatment costs but the payment of daily allowance and provision of information and particular services. In addition, the author concludes that wordings used to exclude the risk of communicable diseases may create particular dilemmas as to whether a loss event may be considered insured, depending on the circumstances and time of its occurrence, and depending on the provisions of positive legal regulations.
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Juvekar, Meenesh, and Baisali Sarkar. "Guidelines for rhinology surgery in COVID-19 pandemic." International Journal of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery 6, no. 11 (October 23, 2020): 2155. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/issn.2454-5929.ijohns20204650.
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<p class="abstract">COVID-19 disease was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, India has witnessed a massive surge of coronavirus cases. This study reviews the measures to take by the clinicians involved in rhinology surgery in light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The current finding about COVID-19 infection and its relation with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV 2) virus is evaluated and possible safety measure guidelines to be taken while doing rhinology procedures is reviewed. The risk of coronavirus 2019 can be largely reduced by wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) kit with powered air purifying respirator, double gloves, eye protection, face shield, gown, shoe covers, limiting attendance to operation theatre, negative pressure room, using negative-pressure otolaryngology viral isolation drape (NOVID) system to cover the patient and proper removal of patient drape after operation. Additionally, low oscillation speeds of microdebrider with continuous suction is associated with low risk of aerosol transmission into the environment. Rhinology and endonasal surgeries are high risk procedures and should adhere to general guidelines set for high-risk procedures. If the proposed protocols are strictly maintained then the risk of getting infected by coronavirus is markedly reduced. In this current scenario is it mandatory to attain the emergent surgical cases with all possible precautions as mentioned and defer the rest of the cases till the pandemic gets over.</p>
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Yung, Colin Shing-Yat, Kevin Chi Him Fok, Ching Ngai Leung, and Yat Wa Wong. "What every orthopaedic surgeon should know about COVID-19: A review of the current literature." Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery 28, no. 2 (January 1, 2020): 230949902092349. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2309499020923499.
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has severely affected the medical community and stopped the world in its tracks. This review aims to provide the basic information necessary for us, orthopaedic surgeons to prepare ourselves to face this pandemic together. Herein, we cover the background of COVID-19, presentation, investigations, transmission, infection control and touch upon emerging treatments. It is of paramount importance that we should stay vigilant for our patients, our families and ourselves. Adequate infection control measures are necessary during day-to-day clinical work.
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Robinson, Jake M., Paul Brindley, Ross Cameron, Danielle MacCarthy, and Anna Jorgensen. "Nature’s Role in Supporting Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Geospatial and Socioecological Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 5 (February 24, 2021): 2227. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052227.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented changes to human lifestyles across the world. The virus and associated social restriction measures have been linked to an increase in mental health conditions. A considerable body of evidence shows that spending time in and engaging with nature can improve human health and wellbeing. Our study explores nature’s role in supporting health during the COVID-19 pandemic. We created web-based questionnaires with validated health instruments and conducted spatial analyses in a geographic information system (GIS). We collected data (n = 1184) on people’s patterns of nature exposure, associated health and wellbeing responses, and potential socioecological drivers such as relative deprivation, access to greenspaces, and land-cover greenness. The majority of responses came from England, UK (n = 993). We applied a range of statistical analyses including bootstrap-resampled correlations and binomial regression models, adjusting for several potential confounding factors. We found that respondents significantly changed their patterns of visiting nature as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. People spent more time in nature and visited nature more often during the pandemic. People generally visited nature for a health and wellbeing benefit and felt that nature helped them cope during the pandemic. Greater land-cover greenness within a 250 m radius around a respondent’s postcode was important in predicting higher levels of mental wellbeing. There were significantly more food-growing allotments within 100 and 250 m around respondents with high mental wellbeing scores. The need for a mutually-advantageous relationship between humans and the wider biotic community has never been more important. We must conserve, restore and design nature-centric environments to maintain resilient societies and promote planetary health.
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Vassallo, Gabriele A., Sirio Fiorino, Simone Mori, Tommaso Dionisi, Giuseppe Augello, and Angelo Cosimo Gioia. "Hypovitaminosis D and COVID-19." Italian Journal of Medicine 14, no. 4 (December 22, 2020): 216–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2020.1404.
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As the main title ‘COVID-19 revolution: a new challenge for the internist’ states, the global coronavirus infection disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represented a new challenge for the internists. This paper is part of a series of articles written during the difficult period of the ongoing global pandemic and published all together in this fourth issue of the Italian Journal of Medicine, with the aim of sharing the direct experiences of those who were the first to face this severe emergency, expressing each point of view in the management of COVID-19 in relation to other diseases. Each article is therefore the result of many efforts and a joint collaboration between many colleagues from the Departments of Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine of several Italian hospitals, engaged in the front line during the pandemic. These preliminary studies therefore cover diagnostic tools available to health care personnel, epidemiological reflections, possible new therapeutic approaches, discharge and reintegration procedures to daily life, the involvement of the disease not only in the lung, aspects related to various comorbidities, such as: coagulopathies, vasculitis, vitamin D deficiency, gender differences, etc.. The goal is to offer a perspective, as broad as possible, of everything that has been done to initially face the pandemic in its first phase and provide the tools for an increasingly better approach, in the hope of not arriving unprepared to a possible second wave. This paper in particular deals with hypovitaminosis D and COVID-19.
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Saha, Shivangi, Suvashis Dash, Mohammed Tahir Ansari, Ashish Dhanraj Bichupuriya, Amit Kumar Gupta, and Maneesh Singhal. "Optimising Hand Surgery during COVID-19 Pandemic." Journal of Hand Surgery (Asian-Pacific Volume) 26, no. 01 (January 11, 2021): 84–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2424835521500132.
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Background: With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, most health-care personnel and resources are redirected to prioritize care for seriously-ill COVID patients. This situation may poorly impact our capacity to care for critically injured patients. We need to devise a strategy to provide rational and essential care to hand trauma victims whilst the access to theatres and anaesthetic support is limited. Our center is a level 1 trauma center, where the pandemic preparedness required reorganization of the trauma services. We aim to summarise the clinical profile and management of these patients and highlight, how we modified our practice to optimize their care. Methods: This is a single-centre retrospective observational study of all patients with hand injuries visiting the Department of Plastic Surgery from 22nd March to 31st May 2020. Patient characteristics, management details, and outcomes were analysed. Results: A total of 102 hand injuries were encountered. Five patients were COVID-19 positive. The mean age was 28.9 ± 14.8 years and eighty-two (80.4%) were males. Thirty-one injuries involved fractures/dislocations, of which 23 (74.2%) were managed non-operatively. Seventy-five (73.5%) patients underwent wound wash or procedure under local anaesthetic and were discharged as soon as they were comfortable. Seventeen cases performed under brachial-plexus block, were discharged within 24 hours except four cases of finger replantation/ revascularisation and one flap cover which were discharged after monitoring for four days. At mean follow-up of 54.4 ± 21.8 days, the rates of early complication and loss to follow-up were 6.9% and 12.7% respectively. Conclusions: Essential trauma care needs to continue keeping in mind, rational use of resources while ensuring safety of the patients and health-care professionals. We need to be flexible and dynamic in our approach, by utilising teleconsultation, non-operative management, and regional anaesthesia wherever feasible.
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Seyedin, Hesam, Shandiz Moslehi, Fazeleh Sakhaei, and Mohsen Dowlati. "Developing a hospital preparedness checklist to assess the ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic." Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal 27, no. 2 (February 1, 2021): 131–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.26719/2021.27.2.131.
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Background: During epidemics and pandemics, health systems, and especially hospitals, face many challenges in the management of patients and staff. Hospital preparedness measures are critical for hospitals to respond effectively to the admission and management of COVID-19 patients. Ministry of health policy for pandemics must cover the ability of hospitals to respond to COVID-19. Aims: The aim of this study was to develop a checklist for evaluating the preparedness of hospitals to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We searched for and reviewed available evidence, including the literature and guidelines presented by related organizations. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, face-to-face interview was not possible so we used telephone and video connections, mobile applications and email for unstructured interviews. Checklist development was carried out by a multidisciplinary panel of experts. Results: After applying the opinions of the experts, the final checklist had 2 main domains: measures at national and measures at hospital level. Preparedness at national level was categorized into 3 aspects that are implemented by the health ministry. Preparedness at hospital level was categorized in 24 subgroups. Conclusion: Hospital preparedness for admission and management of COVID-19 patients is essential. A checklist for the assessment of hospital preparedness for COVID-19 patient management and hospital management was designed and developed. Our preparedness assessment checklist is an expanded tool that provides clear and practical guidance that can be adapted for any hospital admitting COVID-19 patients.
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Coppola, Maria Gabriella, and Emiliano Panizon. "Diagnostic dilemmas in COVID-19 patient." Italian Journal of Medicine 14, no. 4 (December 22, 2020): 203–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2020.1400.
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As the main title ‘COVID-19 revolution: a new challenge for the internist’ states, the global coronavirus infection disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represented a new challenge for the internists. This paper is part of a series of articles written during the difficult period of the ongoing global pandemic and published all together in this fourth issue of the Italian Journal of Medicine, with the aim of sharing the direct experiences of those who were the first to face this severe emergency, expressing each point of view in the management of COVID-19 in relation to other diseases. Each article is therefore the result of many efforts and a joint collaboration between many colleagues from the Departments of Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine of several Italian hospitals, engaged in the front line during the pandemic. These preliminary studies therefore cover diagnostic tools available to health care personnel, epidemiological reflections, possible new therapeutic approaches, discharge and reintegration procedures to daily life, the involvement of the disease not only in the lung, aspects related to various comorbidities, such as: coagulopathies, vasculitis, vitamin D deficiency, gender differences, etc.. The goal is to offer a perspective, as broad as possible, of everything that has been done to initially face the pandemic in its first phase and provide the tools for an increasingly better approach, in the hope of not arriving unprepared to a possible second wave. This paper in particular deals with the diagnosis of COVID-19.
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Cardamone, Chiara, and Iginio Donatiello. "Management of COVID-19 in comorbidities." Italian Journal of Medicine 14, no. 4 (December 22, 2020): 223–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2020.1406.
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As the main title ‘COVID-19 revolution: a new challenge for the internist’ states, the global coronavirus infection disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represented a new challenge for the internists. This paper is part of a series of articles written during the difficult period of the ongoing global pandemic and published all together in this fourth issue of the Italian Journal of Medicine, with the aim of sharing the direct experiences of those who were the first to face this severe emergency, expressing each point of view in the management of COVID-19 in relation to other diseases. Each article is therefore the result of many efforts and a joint collaboration between many colleagues from the Departments of Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine of several Italian hospitals, engaged in the front line during the pandemic. These preliminary studies therefore cover diagnostic tools available to health care personnel, epidemiological reflections, possible new therapeutic approaches, discharge and reintegration procedures to daily life, the involvement of the disease not only in the lung, aspects related to various comorbidities, such as: coagulopathies, vasculitis, vitamin D deficiency, gender differences, etc.. The goal is to offer a perspective, as broad as possible, of everything that has been done to initially face the pandemic in its first phase and provide the tools for an increasingly better approach, in the hope of not arriving unprepared to a possible second wave. This paper in particular deals with the management of COVID-19 in comorbidities.
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Redondo-Sama, Gisela, Virginia Matulic, Ariadna Munté-Pascual, and Irene de Vicente. "Social Work during the COVID-19 Crisis: Responding to Urgent Social Needs." Sustainability 12, no. 20 (October 16, 2020): 8595. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12208595.
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Social work during the COVID-19 crisis has faced one of the most challenging times to cover urgent social needs in an uncertain scenario. This study analyzes the immediate responses in social work to vulnerable groups in the first 15 days of the pandemic in Barcelona, one of the most affected areas worldwide by COVID-19. The sample for this qualitative study includes 23 semi-structured interviews with social workers from different fields of intervention, from general approaches (primary care) to specific ones (health, ageing, homeless, and justice). The data analysis followed the communicative methodology, including transformative and exclusionary dimensions, and the analytical categories focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social services users, the organizational responses of social workers, and the impact of the interventions to cover urgent social needs of attendees. The interventions have been accompanied by an improvement in communication channels with vulnerable groups, ensuring an understanding of the situation of families and individuals, and covering the most urgent social needs. The study shows the key role of social workers from diverse social attention tools and their contribution to the sustainability of social services with a long-term impact.
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Sharma, Amita, Sandeep Sharan, Poonam Malhotra Kapoor, and Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhury. "COVID-19 ECMO Myths Busted." Journal of Cardiac Critical Care TSS 04, no. 01 (June 15, 2020): 51–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1713490.
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AbstractLiterature has proven that COVID-19 patients develop pneumonia. Prognosis of this is poor in case of COVID-19 patients developing the following: low lymphocyte count (< 16%) which gets lower with active COVID-19 infection, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, and uncontrolled diabetes mellitus with no exercise. A lot of dilemmas and myths in this nascent COVID-19 pandemic period exist regarding the use of ECMO. Perplexities such as do we treat the COVID-19 patients on ECMO, as a pulmonary ARDS pneumonia, and/or do we need high PEEP or moderate PEEP, during ECMO for this ARDS; are some common COVID-19 ECMO myths which this short review aims to cover in a question-answer format.
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Kusuma, Anugrah Dewa, and Sigit Muryanto. "Memberi Motivasi dan Membuka Peluang Berwirausaha dengan Berdagang Angkringan Kepada Masyarakat yang Terdampak Pandemi Covid-19 di Ds. Sidoharjo Kec. Polanharjo Kab. Klaten." SENYUM BOYOLALI 2, no. 1 (July 31, 2021): 17–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.36596/sb.v2i1.555.
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In the pandemic covid-19 this many of them small or large affected by the start of her ways merchandise not up to the decline in turnover will also affect the company even, to employees so increasing the number increased unemployment. Because it certainly makes the psychological society in dealing with economics disturbed. See the situation and conditions like that in an activity KKN 2021 this year we took the theme gave motivation and opportunity entrepreneurial by trade angkringan people who are affected by the pandemic covid-19. The motivation was by the provision of the understanding that in scavenge some easy do not have to work as an employee, with it could also. by tradeIn relation to stay up late as business opportunities we provide cover wagons angkringan complete with furniture with system rent 10.000/day.We were hoping with this motivation as well as business opportunities were very minimal capital this can be solutions to the impact of the pandemic covid-19.
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Nakanwagi, Susan, and Ayebare Tom Rukundo. "Covid-19 Pandemic Deranging Energy Transition in Uganda: Challenges and Prospects." Global Energy Law and Sustainability 1, no. 2 (August 2020): 211–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gels.2020.0030.
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The coronavirus (Covid-19) global pandemic of 2020 is alarming for economic growth and development. Several sectors in the world have experienced shocks, and the energy industry has intensely suffered as characterised by the massive drop in petroleum prices. Only a pick-up in global oil demand would overcome the oil crisis after the lifting of comprehensive lockdown measures and the economic revamp. During this period, environmental advocates are pressing for the transition from traditional fuel sources like coal and oil to renewable energy sources. Moreover, clean energy projects are more likely to be impacted by the pandemic because of the effect on foreign exchange and the global economy. The energy transition has also faced other major setbacks by the Covid-19 crisis. Globally, many policies related to climate and energy, such as the carbon trading scheme of the European Union (EU) have been shelved or postponed. This article thus explores the Covid-19 impact on the global economies with a focus on Uganda which is yet to start actual petroleum production and how they face challenges in adapting to the energy transition movement. The governments are encouraged to realign policies and also extend Covid-19 fiscal recovery packages to cover clean energy investments.
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Carrara, Davide. "COVID-19 coagulopathy: towards the understanding of pathogenesis." Italian Journal of Medicine 14, no. 4 (December 22, 2020): 210–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2020.1402.
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As the main title ‘COVID-19 revolution: a new challenge for the internist’ states, the global coronavirus infection disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represented a new challenge for the internists. This paper is part of a series of articles written during the difficult period of the ongoing global pandemic and published all together in this fourth issue of the Italian Journal of Medicine, with the aim of sharing the direct experiences of those who were the first to face this severe emergency, expressing each point of view in the management of COVID-19 in relation to other diseases. Each article is therefore the result of many efforts and a joint collaboration between many colleagues from the Departments of Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine of several Italian hospitals, engaged in the front line during the pandemic. These preliminary studies therefore cover diagnostic tools available to health care personnel, epidemiological reflections, possible new therapeutic approaches, discharge and reintegration procedures to daily life, the involvement of the disease not only in the lung, aspects related to various comorbidities, such as: coagulopathies, vasculitis, vitamin D deficiency, gender differences, etc.. The goal is to offer a perspective, as broad as possible, of everything that has been done to initially face the pandemic in its first phase and provide the tools for an increasingly better approach, in the hope of not arriving unprepared to a possible second wave. This paper in particular deals with the pathogenesis of COVID-19.
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Ciarambino, Tiziana, Sara Rotunno, Emanuele Bizzi, and Federica Lorenzi. "COVID-19 and gender differences: lights and shadows." Italian Journal of Medicine 14, no. 4 (December 22, 2020): 228–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2020.1407.
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As the main title ‘COVID-19 revolution: a new challenge for the internist’ states, the global coronavirus infection disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represented a new challenge for the internists. This paper is part of a series of articles written during the difficult period of the ongoing global pandemic and published all together in this fourth issue of the Italian Journal of Medicine, with the aim of sharing the direct experiences of those who were the first to face this severe emergency, expressing each point of view in the management of COVID-19 in relation to other diseases. Each article is therefore the result of many efforts and a joint collaboration between many colleagues from the Departments of Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine of several Italian hospitals, engaged in the front line during the pandemic. These preliminary studies therefore cover diagnostic tools available to health care personnel, epidemiological reflections, possible new therapeutic approaches, discharge and reintegration procedures to daily life, the involvement of the disease not only in the lung, aspects related to various comorbidities, such as: coagulopathies, vasculitis, vitamin D deficiency, gender differences, etc.. The goal is to offer a perspective, as broad as possible, of everything that has been done to initially face the pandemic in its first phase and provide the tools for an increasingly better approach, in the hope of not arriving unprepared to a possible second wave. This paper in particular deals with COVID-19 and gender differences.
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Ajide, Folorunsho M., and Tolulope T. Osinubi. "Covid-19 Pandemic and Outward Foreign Direct Investment: A Preliminary Note." ECONOMICS 8, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 79–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eoik-2020-0019.
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Abstract Social-distance policy of most governments and the pandemic impact of corona virus (COVID-19) on human health are expected to shutter international investment and business environment. However, there is little or no study to show the early empirical evidence on this relationship, most especially its impacts on FDI flows in the economies. This note provides a preliminary evidence of the impact of COVID-19 on FDI outflows. Our data cover cross-sectional first quarter, average data; between 1 January – 31 March, 2020 from 43 countries. Using Ordinary least square (OLS) and Quantile regressions, we document that there is a positive relationship between COVID-19 confirmed cases and FDI outflows. In addition, there is a positive impact of COVID-19 related confirmed deaths on FDI outflows across all quartiles estimations. This means that COVID-19 pandemic fuels the foreign direct investment outflows. The major causes could be the reduction in the ability of firms to invest due to a shortage in the number of skilled employees because they care for their health safety, a decline in corporate profits and increase in cost of finance. In addition, the propensities to invest have been widely affected negatively in most economies. These factors also become obvious when most economies experience a very high level of risk perception in financial market.
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Perifanou, Maria, Anastasios A. Economides, and Katerina Tzafilkou. "Teachers’ Digital Skills Readiness During COVID-19 Pandemic." International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) 16, no. 08 (April 23, 2021): 238. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v16i08.21011.
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The COVID-19 crisis revealed the necessity for teachers to have digital skills in order to effectively teach online. Teachers should be able to exploit, use, and apply digital technologies in all educational activities. This paper investigates teachers’ perceptions regarding their digital skills for performing their teaching and professional responsibilities during the pandemic. More than eight hundred teachers participated in a survey regarding the use of digital technologies in their teaching and their professional responsibilities. Indicative digital tools that can be used by digital competent teachers are also presented to cover all areas of the teachers’ professional activities. Their answers revealed that they mostly used digital tools for finding, evaluating, and developing educational resources as well for teaching. They also used digital tools for self-study, students’ assessment, as well as interacting and communicating with students. However, they hardly used digital tools for other teaching activities such as feedback and final evaluation of the students, or revising the educational resources. Finally, they could not deal with long-term planning, management, and development of either their school or education in general. Although it is important for teachers to effectively respond to their daily emergent teaching responsibilities, consideration should also be given to the long-term planning and development of the digital school and digital education in general.
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Fedi, Giacomo, Stefano Guidi, and Fabio Ragazzo. "Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in patients with COVID-19." Italian Journal of Medicine 14, no. 4 (December 22, 2020): 219–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2020.1405.
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As the main title ‘COVID-19 revolution: a new challenge for the internist’ states, the global coronavirus infection disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represented a new challenge for the internists. This paper is part of a series of articles written during the difficult period of the ongoing global pandemic and published all together in this fourth issue of the Italian Journal of Medicine, with the aim of sharing the direct experiences of those who were the first to face this severe emergency, expressing each point of view in the management of COVID-19 in relation to other diseases. Each article is therefore the result of many efforts and a joint collaboration between many colleagues from the Departments of Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine of several Italian hospitals, engaged in the front line during the pandemic. These preliminary studies therefore cover diagnostic tools available to health care personnel, epidemiological reflections, possible new therapeutic approaches, discharge and reintegration procedures to daily life, the involvement of the disease not only in the lung, aspects related to various comorbidities, such as: coagulopathies, vasculitis, vitamin D deficiency, gender differences, etc.. The goal is to offer a perspective, as broad as possible, of everything that has been done to initially face the pandemic in its first phase and provide the tools for an increasingly better approach, in the hope of not arriving unprepared to a possible second wave. This paper in particular deals with renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in patients with COVID-19.
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Pan, Li, Shuang-Lan Chen, Yi-Sha Guo, Yu-Xiang Du, Xiao-Di Wu, Alice Y. M. Jones, and Jia Han. "Limiting potential COVID-19 contagion in squatting public toilets." Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal 41, no. 02 (April 17, 2021): 119–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1013702521500116.
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Background: Since the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten global stability. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is mostly by respiratory droplets and direct contact but viral RNA fragments have also been detected in the faecal waste of patients with COVID-19. Cleanliness and effective sanitation of public toilets is a concern, as flushing the toilet is potentially an aerosol generating procedure. When the toilets are of the squatting type and without a cover, there exists a risk of viral contamination through the splashing of toilet water and aerosol generation. Objective: This study aims to determine whether the cleanliness of public toilets was a concern to the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether a squatting toilet was preferred to a seated design. Methods: A questionnaire was designed and posted on “WeChat” contact groups of the investigators. Results: The survey showed that 91% of participants preferred squatting toilets, but that 72% were apprehensive of personal contamination when using public toilets. Over 63% of the respondents had encountered an incidence of water splash and would prefer public toilets to be covered during flushing and 83% of these respondents preferred a foot-controlled device. Conclusion: This survey suggests that consideration should be given to the installation of a simple foot-controlled device to cover public squatting toilets to help restrict potential COVID-19 contamination and to meet hygienic expectations of the public.
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Prasetyorini, Arjuni. "MAMPIR NGOMBE: REFLEKSI DI TENGAH PANDEMI COVID-19 MELALUI FILM TARI." Joged 17, no. 1 (July 26, 2021): 80–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.24821/joged.v17i1.5615.
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ABSTRAK“Mampir Ngombe” adalah film tari yang merefleksikan kondisi Pandemi Covid-19. Sejak akhir tahun 2019 hingga saat ini, seluruh manusia di bumi sedang menghadapi Pandemi dengan skala global. Memasuki tahun 2020 negara-negara di dunia mulai melakukan lockdown atau pembatasan sosial berskala besar bagi negaranya. Tingkat kematian akibat Pandemi Covid-19 ini selalu diberitakan melalui berbagai media setiap harinya, bahkan terdapat beberapa kerabat dan kawan yang terkonfirmasi positif Covid-19, hingga sembuh kembali namun juga ada yang meninggal. Duka dan kecemasan meliputi hampir disetiap harinya. Pandemi Covid-19 secara langsung dan tidak langsung memberi berbagai dampak. Salah satu dampak yang terjadi jika direnungkan secara dalam akan muncul suatu kesadaran, di mana hidup terasa benar-benar singkat bahwa setiap manusia tidak tahu kapan akan dipanggil pulang.Sebuah pepatah Jawa atau pitutur Jawa mengatakan “Urip iku mung sadermo mampir ngombe, yang memiliki arti hidup itu sangat singkat, ibarat hanya singgah minum. Pepatah itu menjadi sangat terasa pada kondisi saat ini. Waktu yang demikian singkat ini manusia diharapkan mengisinya dengan fikiran yang positif dan dan berusaha memanfaatkannya dengan melakukan hal-hal yang baik dan bermanfaat. Daripada hidup dalam ketakutan, kecemasan, dan kekuatiran, sebaiknya diisi dengan doa, serta belajar untuk ikhlas setiap harinya, hingga setiap langkah yang dijalani akan menjadi laku yang migunani tumpraping diri lan liya. Koreografer menggunakan media video/film sebagai media ungkap sebagai respons dan adaptasi pada kondisi Pandemi Covid-19. Pandemi Covid-19 membatasi gerak seni pertunjukan dalam hal ini tari yang secara normatif dapat dinikmati secara langsung oleh mata dan energi dirasakan hadir secara nyata, namun pada kondisi ini harus dinikmati melalui video/film. Karya ini merupakan sebuah ekperimentasi langkah baru bagi koreografer untuk mencoba dan berusaha mengekpresikan tari melalui media video/film dengan durasi 6.44 detik.ABSTRACTThe dance film entitled "Mampir Ngombe" with a short duration is a reflection and introspection on the current conditions of the Covid-19 Pandemic, all people on earth are facing a pandemic on a global scale since the end of 2019, entering 2020 countries in the world have begun. carry out lockdowns or large-scale social restrictions for the country. The death rate due to the Covid-19 Pandemic is always reported through various news media every day, there are even some relatives and friends who have been confirmed positive for Covid-19, until they recover, but some have died. Grief and anxiety always cover almost every day. The Covid-19 pandemic directly and indirectly has various impacts. One of the impacts that occurs if you think about it deeply will emerge an awareness, where life feels really short that every human being does not know when to be called home. A Javanese proverb or Javanese pitutur “states Urip iku mung sadermo mampir ngombe, which means life is like just stopping by for a drink, very briefly. The proverb is very pronounced in the current condition. This time is so short that humans are expected instead of every day filled with worries, fears and worries, it would be nice if they were filled with positive thoughts and and trying to make use of them by doing good and useful things, such as filling them with prayers, working with them. following health protocols, trying to live up to the advice from the government, namely Gerakan 5M Covid-19 (Wearing a mask, washing hands with soap with running water, keeping your distance, keeping away from crowds) and learning to do iklas every day, so that every step you take will become a laku that migunani tumprapting liyan. Choreographers use video / film media as a medium of expression as a response and adaptation to the conditions of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic limits the movement of performing arts, in this case dance, which can normally be enjoyed directly by the eye and the energy is felt to be present in real terms, but in this condition it must be enjoyed through videos / films. This work is an experimentation of a new step for choreographers to try and try to express dance through video / film media with short duration.
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Tamburello, Antonio, Laura Castelnovo, Emanuele Bizzi, and Francesco Caso. "Vasculitis and COVID-19: what do we have to know?" Italian Journal of Medicine 14, no. 4 (December 22, 2020): 213–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2020.1403.
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As the main title ‘COVID-19 revolution: a new challenge for the internist’ states, the global coronavirus infection disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represented a new challenge for the internists. This paper is part of a series of articles written during the difficult period of the ongoing global pandemic and published all together in this fourth issue of the Italian Journal of Medicine, with the aim of sharing the direct experiences of those who were the first to face this severe emergency, expressing each point of view in the management of COVID-19 in relation to other diseases. Each article is therefore the result of many efforts and a joint collaboration between many colleagues from the Departments of Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine of several Italian hospitals, engaged in the front line during the pandemic. These preliminary studies therefore cover diagnostic tools available to health care personnel, epidemiological reflections, possible new therapeutic approaches, discharge and reintegration procedures to daily life, the involvement of the disease not only in the lung, aspects related to various comorbidities, such as: coagulopathies, vasculitis, vitamin D deficiency, gender differences, etc.. The goal is to offer a perspective, as broad as possible, of everything that has been done to initially face the pandemic in its first phase and provide the tools for an increasingly better approach, in the hope of not arriving unprepared to a possible second wave. This paper in particular deals with vasculitis and COVID-19.
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Gul, Akhtar, Tanbila Ghafoor, and Fatima Zahra. "World’s Economy and Future Post-Covid-19: A Case Study China Will Impose New World Order." RMC Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 2, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 20–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.46256/rmcjsochum.v2i1.122.
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The aim of this paper describes world’s future post-COVID-19. Coronavirus resemble pandemics exist in centuries. Exactly, one century ago influenza flu affected the world economy and social order. About millions of people died caused by pandemics along with weak and collapsed economies. The pandemic entirely affected every sphere of life, including, Labor demand and supply, tourism, economy, politics, and nature of the world. There are two possible scenarios of the world post-Covid-19. First one world will enter new wars, hunger, and world order and so on. Second one, whole states collectively tackle this pandemic. Firstly, Economic and military strength determine the political power of a state. The US has been facing severe and critical crises since 2016. Thus, the US will not maintain power more and more. USA’s One Step Back Policy will collapse USA power and Trump loses the election, and new president will impose new wars on Asian land. European Union will disintegrate due to race of power among the powers along with world face. Secondly, China will impose a new world order after COVID-19. Because China policies totally different from previous superpowers. During supremacy, the Great Britain and USA were adopted aggressive political and military policies. In Contrast, China adopted an economic policy which is beneficial for every society. China started to lead the world economically and politically. So, this gap will create a new war in Asia and globally. China Economic Network policy (BRI) would cover world in 2040 years. Thirdly, world economies will face severe economic conditions like 1923, 1929 and 2008. The current recession and political scenarios are knocking a depression on world economic door. Fourthly, emerging economy India will not cover economic power till 2025. Maybe India never achieves economic prosperity due to Jingoistic approach. In this paper, we predicate world’s economic and politics shape post-covid-19. The virus is changed every sphere and every field of life. ? We used NiGEM model. It’s just predication, will what occur in future. About 3% Gross Domestic Product, 10% consumption, 18% manufacturing and 13% to 32% trade declined due to current pandemics. Universal recession also take place. Now, how the world’s powerful state will push the world into new wars. Which one imposed new world order post-covid-19? Does a new Great Depression knock world door
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Rizaldi, Syamsu, Ria Ariany, and Annisa Aulia Putri. "Collaborative Leadership of Wali Nagari in Mitigation of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Nagari Rancak." Journal of Governance and Public Policy 8, no. 1 (February 23, 2021): 37–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.18196/jgpp.811341.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic has struck many countries, including Indonesia. The Indonesian government has created and implemented various policies in dealing with this epidemic, from the central government to the villages. The COVID-19 pandemic response at the local level is regulated in a Village Minister Circular Number 8 of 2020. In tackling the outbreak at the village level, leadership that can embrace all stakeholders is required. This study examines further the collaborative leadership of Wali Nagari in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic in Nagari Rancak in West Sumatra Province. The research approach used was qualitative with descriptive analysis. The research was conducted in five villages in West Sumatra Province. Data collection techniques in the form of interviews and documentation. This study concluded that the three Nagari Rancak, namely Nagari Batu Bulek, Nagari Sungayang, and Nagari Pakan Sinayan, did not apply collaborative leadership to the maximum, while the other two Nagaris, namely the Nyalo IV Koto Mudiek River Village and the Taram Nagari, had implemented a collaborative leadership model. With collaborative leadership, the Nagari’s Wali (leaders) could cover the limitations to overcome COVID-19 impacts in the village.
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La Regina, Micaela, and Riccardo Tartaglia. "The next future of COVID-19 epidemic in Italy." Italian Journal of Medicine 14, no. 4 (December 22, 2020): 233–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2020.1409.
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As the main title ‘COVID-19 revolution: a new challenge for the internist’ states, the global coronavirus infection disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represented a new challenge for the internists. This paper is part of a series of articles written during the difficult period of the ongoing global pandemic and published all together in this fourth issue of the Italian Journal of Medicine, with the aim of sharing the direct experiences of those who were the first to face this severe emergency, expressing each point of view in the management of COVID-19 in relation to other diseases. Each article is therefore the result of many efforts and a joint collaboration between many colleagues from the Departments of Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine of several Italian hospitals, engaged in the front line during the pandemic. These preliminary studies therefore cover diagnostic tools available to health care personnel, epidemiological reflections, possible new therapeutic approaches, discharge and reintegration procedures to daily life, the involvement of the disease not only in the lung, aspects related to various comorbidities, such as: coagulopathies, vasculitis, vitamin D deficiency, gender differences, etc.. The goal is to offer a perspective, as broad as possible, of everything that has been done to initially face the pandemic in its first phase and provide the tools for an increasingly better approach, in the hope of not arriving unprepared to a possible second wave. This paper in particular deals with possible future perspectives in Italy.
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Bozek, John S., Heather K. Hayanga, Partho Sengupta, Mir Ali Abbas Khan, and Matthew B. Ellison. "Transesophageal echocardiography probe cover: implementation of a cross-contamination containment strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic." Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (English Edition) 71, no. 2 (March 2021): 200–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjane.2020.12.023.
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Desrani, Ayu, and Dzaki Aflah Zamani. "Pengembangan Kurikulum Pembelajaran Bahasa Arab di Masa Pandemi Covid-19." Jurnal Alfazuna : Jurnal Pembelajaran Bahasa Arab dan Kebahasaaraban 5, no. 02 (June 25, 2021): 2014–234. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/alfazuna.v5i02.1252.
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Purpose- this study aims tofind out and analyze the appropriate curriculum in Arabic learning during the covid-19 pandemic, where at this time the covid-19 pandemic is increasing and its spread is growing rapidly, so it becomes a challenge for a teacher to overcome the learning so that it continues as it should. , including learning Arabic.
Design/Methodology/Approach- This study used a qualitative approach with a library research method that used books and other literatures as the main object. This research was analyzed descriptively on the content to provide a clear, objective, systematic, analytical and critical description and description of the appropriate Arabic language learning curriculum during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Findings- 4 basics in the development of the Arabic language learning curriculum during the pandemic: 1) the preparation of learning objectives must be adapted to the circumstances of students and socialized to parents to work together to achieve these goals. 2) the content or material content is designed in such a way as to get students to lead to higher order thinking skills. 3) During the learning process the teacher is required to be as creative as possible to guide learning, the use of appropriate methods and media is very influential. 4) evaluation based on project is highly recommended to avoid the possibility of students cheating on each other.
Research Limitation/Implications- This study cannot cover all in detail about Arabic language skills, because in essence during the current COVID-19 pandemic, teachers need more ways in which subject matter can be conveyed properly to students. However, this study can provide a comprehensive picture of the needs of Arabic language teachers in teaching, one of which is the use of learning technology.
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Ziske Maritska. "Efforts to Maintain the Health of Children with Special Needs (ABK) During the Pandemic through Online Education Seminars." Conferences of Medical Sciences Dies Natalis Faculty of Medicine Universitas Sriwijaya 2, no. 1 (November 12, 2020): 10–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.32539/dies.v2i1.38.
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Sudden changes that cover all aspects of life in a short time, such as what happened during the current COVID-19 pandemic, can pose challenges to not only the children with special needs, but also their parents / guardians. This community service activity is carried out in the form of online educational seminars on efforts to maintain the health of children with special needs during the pandemic for parents / guardians of children with special needs who attend SLB C Karya Ibu Palembang and also common populace. This activity aims to provide a better understanding to parents / guardians of children with special needs about what children with special needs may face and live with during the pandemic.
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SANYAL, Sudipto. "How to desire control." Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brașov, Series IV: Philology. Cultural Studies 13 (62), no. 2 (December 15, 2020): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.31926/but.pcs.2020.62.13.2.2.
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"The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a once-in-a-generation unfolding of the ideas of the normal and the pathological into one another in a public and spectacular way. The following essay attempts to examine this confusion of the relationship between health and disease in the body politic through special reference to a nationally televised address by the Indian Prime Minister at the outbreak of the pandemic. It interrogates the ways in which the pandemic has functioned as a cover for extending a state of exception through the arts of government. It also glimpses at the ways in which the idea of the citizen has been inverted to create a governmentalized subject desiring to be controlled."
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Omondi Barack, Calvince, and Gerishon Barack Munga. "Covid-19 and border restriction policies: the dilemma of trans-border truck drivers in East Africa." Journal of Governance and Accountability Studies 1, no. 1 (January 25, 2021): 55–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.35912/jgas.v1i1.466.
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to critically assess the challenges that were faced by trans-border truck drivers within the East African Community as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and its management protocols. Research methodology: While adopting the qualitative research method, this paper has used documents including documented interviews and virtual sources for its data. The data have been analyzed using qualitative content analysis through which themes have been generated for discussions. Results: The EAC member countries should continue to harmonize their health standardization to enable them to enjoy the pursuit and use of OSBP even during pandemics. Limitations: This paper, however, is limited to the long-distance truck drivers and the management of Covid-19 within the East African Community and does not cover other aspects of Coordinated Border Management in the region. Contribution: It provides valuable contributions to the need for harmonization and standardization of operations and health measures within the community as a long-term solution to the challenges of coordinated border management within the community in the face of future pandemics and readiness for the single market regime. Keywords: Truckers, Coordinated border management, Covid-19, East African Community, Relay driving
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Tangianu, Flavio, and Fabio Capello. "Approach to complexity in the COVID-19 era: what are the internist’s tools?" Italian Journal of Medicine 14, no. 4 (December 22, 2020): 193–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2020.1398.
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As the main title ‘COVID-19 revolution: a new challenge for the internist’ states, the global coronavirus infection disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represented a new challenge for the internists. This paper is part of a series of articles written during the difficult period of the ongoing global pandemic and published all together in this fourth issue of the Italian Journal of Medicine, with the aim of sharing the direct experiences of those who were the first to face this severe emergency, expressing each point of view in the management of COVID-19 in relation to other diseases. Each article is therefore the result of many efforts and a joint collaboration between many colleagues from the Departments of Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine of several Italian hospitals, engaged in the front line during the pandemic. These preliminary studies therefore cover diagnostic tools available to health care personnel, epidemiological reflections, possible new therapeutic approaches, discharge and reintegration procedures to daily life, the involvement of the disease not only in the lung, aspects related to various comorbidities, such as: coagulopathies, vasculitis, vitamin D deficiency, gender differences, etc.. The goal is to offer a perspective, as broad as possible, of everything that has been done to initially face the pandemic in its first phase and provide the tools for an increasingly better approach, in the hope of not arriving unprepared to a possible second wave. This paper in particular deals with internist’s tools useful for management of COVID-19 patient.
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Tieri, Claudia. "The COVID-19 pandemic: is it really just a flu? Focus on epidemiology." Italian Journal of Medicine 14, no. 4 (December 22, 2020): 198–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2020.1399.
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As the main title ‘COVID-19 revolution: a new challenge for the internist’ states, the global coronavirus infection disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represented a new challenge for the internists. This paper is part of a series of articles written during the difficult period of the ongoing global pandemic and published all together in this fourth issue of the Italian Journal of Medicine, with the aim of sharing the direct experiences of those who were the first to face this severe emergency, expressing each point of view in the management of COVID-19 in relation to other diseases. Each article is therefore the result of many efforts and a joint collaboration between many colleagues from the Departments of Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine of several Italian hospitals, engaged in the front line during the pandemic. These preliminary studies therefore cover diagnostic tools available to health care personnel, epidemiological reflections, possible new therapeutic approaches, discharge and reintegration procedures to daily life, the involvement of the disease not only in the lung, aspects related to various comorbidities, such as: coagulopathies, vasculitis, vitamin D deficiency, gender differences, etc.. The goal is to offer a perspective, as broad as possible, of everything that has been done to initially face the pandemic in its first phase and provide the tools for an increasingly better approach, in the hope of not arriving unprepared to a possible second wave. This paper in particular deals with the epidemiology of COVID-19.
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Alatar, Abdullah, Khalid Bajunaid, Ashwag Alqurashi, and Abdulrazag Ajlan. "COVD-12. THE LONGITUDINAL IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON NEUROSURGICAL PRACTICE." Neuro-Oncology 22, Supplement_2 (November 2020): ii23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/noaa215.095.
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Abstract OBJECTIVE This observational cross-sectional multicenter study aimed to evaluate the longitudinal impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on neurosurgical practice. METHODS We included 29 participating neurosurgeons in centers from all geographical regions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study period, which was between March 5, 2020 and May 20, 2020, was divided into three equal periods to determine the longitudinal effect of COVID-19 measures on neurosurgical practice over time. RESULTS During the 11-week study period, 474 neurosurgical interventions were performed. The median number of neurosurgical procedures per day was 5.5 (interquartile range [IQR]: 3.5–8). The number of cases declined from 72 in the first week and plateaued at the 30’s range in subsequent weeks. The most and least number of performed procedures were oncology (129 [27.2%]) and functional procedures (6 [1.3%]), respectively. Emergency (Priority 1) cases were more frequent than non-urgent (Priority 4) cases (178 [37.6%] vs. 74 [15.6%], respectively). In our series, there were three positive COVID-19 cases. There was a significant among-period difference in the length of hospital stay, which dropped from a median stay of 7 days (IQR: 4 – 18) to 6 (IQR: 3 - 13) to 5 days (IQR: 2 - 8). There was no significant among-period difference with respect to institution type, complications, or mortality. CONCLUSION Our study demonstrated that the COVID-19 pandemic decreased the number of procedures performed in neurosurgery practice. The load of emergency neurosurgery procedures did not change throughout the three periods, which reflects the need to designate ample resources to cover emergencies. Notably, with strict screening for COVID -19 infections, neurosurgical procedures could be safely performed during the early pandemic phase. We recommend to restart performing neurosurgical procedures once the pandemic gets stabilized to avoid possible post-pandemic health-care system intolerable overload.
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Izumi, Takako, Vibhas Sukhwani, Akhilesh Surjan, and Rajib Shaw. "Managing and responding to pandemics in higher educational institutions: initial learning from COVID-19." International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment 12, no. 1 (July 16, 2020): 51–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijdrbe-06-2020-0054.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the key challenges, approaches and lessons of the higher educational institutions (HEIs) in the context of COVID-19. Design/methodology/approach A survey was conducted to understand the key challenges being faced by the HEIs around the world during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 150 responses were collected from 65 universities, located in 29 countries. Findings The results show that 47% of respondents with defined universities believe their institutions lacked a permanent or dedicated emergency management office, and 41% said their HEIs lacked a general business continuity plan for an emergency. In universities with BCPs, 33% of the plans do not cover biological hazards and pandemic risk management, and 60% of the plans did not include conducting any advanced simulation exercises. More than 70% the responded said their instruction, information sharing and decision-making process were timely and open. The major challenges identified were a lack of adequate preparedness for pandemic and of pandemic-specific advanced simulation exercises. The next major challenges were the change in the mode of teaching to online lectures and working from home. Based on these challenges, a set of short- and long-term recommendations were proposed. Originality/value This was the first survey in academic institutions in post COVID-19 context. The findings will be useful for preparing for biological and other related hazards.
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Naderi, Hafiz, Shaun Robinson, Martin J. Swaans, Nina Bual, Wing-See Cheung, Laura Reid, Matthew Shun-Shin, et al. "Adapting the role of handheld echocardiography during the COVID-19 pandemic: A practical guide." Perfusion 36, no. 6 (January 9, 2021): 547–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267659120986532.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has altered our approach to inpatient echocardiography delivery. There is now a greater focus to address key clinical questions likely to make an immediate impact in management, particularly during the period of widespread infection. Handheld echocardiography (HHE) can be used as a first-line assessment tool, limiting scanning time and exposure to high viral load. This article describes a potential role for HHE during a pandemic. We propose a protocol with a reporting template for a focused core dataset necessary in delivering an acute echocardiography service in the setting of a highly contagious disease, minimising risk to the operator. We cover the scenarios typically encountered in the acute cardiology setting and how an expert trained echocardiography team can identify such pathologies using a limited imaging format and include cardiac presentations encountered in those patients acutely unwell with COVID-19.
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Hanna, John, Padmavathi Tipparaju, Tania Mulherkar, Edward Lin, Victoria Mischley, Ratuja Kulkarni, Aliyah Bolton, Siddappa N. Byrareddy, and Pooja Jain. "Risk Factors Associated with the Clinical Outcomes of COVID-19 and Its Variants in the Context of Cytokine Storm and Therapeutics/Vaccine Development Challenges." Vaccines 9, no. 8 (August 23, 2021): 938. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9080938.
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The recent appearance of SARS-CoV-2 is responsible for the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and has brought to light the importance of understanding this highly pathogenic agent to prevent future pandemics. This virus is from the same single-stranded positive-sense RNA family, Coronaviridae, as two other epidemic-causing viruses, SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV. During this pandemic, one crucial focus highlighted by WHO has been to understand the risk factors that may contribute to disease severity and predict COVID-19 outcomes. In doing so, it is imperative to understand the virology of SARS-CoV-2 and the immunological response eliciting the clinical manifestation and progression of COVID-19. In this review, we provide clinical data-based analyses of how multiple risk factors (such as sex, race, HLA genotypes, blood groups, vitamin D deficiency, obesity, smoking, and asthma) contribute to the inflammatory overactivation and cytokine storm (frequently seen in COVID-19 patients) with a focus on the IL-6 pathway. We also draw comparisons to the virulence and pathophysiology of SARS and MERS to establish parallels in immune response and discuss the potential for therapeutic approaches that may limit disease progression in patients with higher risk profiles than others. Moreover, we cover the latest information on approved or upcoming COVID-19 vaccines. This paper also provides perspective on emerging variants and associated opportunistic infections such as black molds and fungus that have added to mortality in some parts of the world, such as India. This compilation of existing COVID-19 studies and data will provide an excellent referencing tool for the research, clinical, and public health communities.
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KOKOU-KPOLOU, Cyrille Kossigan, Jude Mary CENAT, María Nieves PEREZ-MARFIL, and Manuel FERNANDEZ-ALCANTARA. "How Can Psychologists and Psychiatrists Help COVID-19 Bereaved Persons: Five propositions to Understanding Contextual Challenges." Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies 20, no. 2 (September 1, 2020): 121–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/jebp.2020.2.15.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is causing unprecedented cumulative deaths and leaving behind millions of bereaved families and individuals. Moreover, the pandemic is disrupting social fabrics in the conventional way we mourn our deads. In this context therefore, how can psychologists, psychiatrists and other health care professionals help bereaved families and individuals more effectively? This opinion paper proposed five recommendations that cover mental health care needs and challenges which may emerge from the management of these traumatic deaths. In all, efforts to comply with either DSM-5 or ICD-11 PGD guidelines could help COVID-19 bereaved persons with overwhelming distress, as they ensure therapists' use of appropriate terminologies in therapeutic alliances. However, clinicians need to have a global perspective of COVID-19 bereavement courses, political and public health measures due to the pandemic, and flexible attitudes about the ICD-11 and of DSM-5 time-criterion for diagnosis. This paper emphasizes the importance of social and collective recognition of COVID-19 deaths through various symbolic and materialized forms to free up collective and individual capacities for resilience. The necessity of individual and group interventions through online platforms is underscored, however these modes of therapies may not reinforce social inequalities by excluding bereaved individuals who really need them.
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Ward, Paul R. "A sociology of the Covid-19 pandemic: A commentary and research agenda for sociologists." Journal of Sociology 56, no. 4 (July 20, 2020): 726–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783320939682.
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During the early part of 2020, there has been an abundance of critically important research on Covid-19 from medical, epidemiological and virological disciplines. There is now an urgent need for sociologists to engage theoretically and empirically on the social impact of issues related to Covid-19. As we have moved further into 2020, governments around the world have imposed different types of restrictions on social life, in order to quell the spread of Covid-19 and ‘flatten the curve’. These have included imposing various degrees of social isolation and restrictions on things like social gatherings, travel, sport and leisure activities, and going to work/school/university. This commentary explores the ways in which different branches of social theory can shed light on the implications of Covid-19 restrictions for social life ‘as we know it’. The broad fields of social theory in the commentary cover concepts such as risk, trust, fear, uncertainty and happiness. The process of developing the social theory driven research agenda contained within this commentary took a rather unusual route – it started by re-reading Jean-Paul Sartre’s ideas on existentialism, which led to me painting a visual sociology of Covid-19 (an image of my painting is provided), and ultimately to this piece.
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Yu, Jingyuan, Yanqin Lu, and Juan Muñoz-Justicia. "Analyzing Spanish News Frames on Twitter during COVID-19—A Network Study of El País and El Mundo." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 15 (July 28, 2020): 5414. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155414.
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While COVID-19 is becoming one of the most severe public health crises in the twenty-first century, media coverage about this pandemic is getting more important than ever to make people informed. Drawing on data scraped from Twitter, this study aims to analyze and compare the news updates of two main Spanish newspapers El País and El Mundo during the pandemic. Throughout an automatic process of topic modeling and network analysis methods, this study identifies eight news frames for each newspaper’s Twitter account. Furthermore, the whole pandemic development process is split into three periods—the pre-crisis period, the lockdown period and the recovery period. The networks of the computed frames are visualized by these three segments. This paper contributes to the understanding of how Spanish news media cover public health crises on social media platforms.
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Stilhoff, Sörensen. "Terror in utopia: Crisis (mis-) management during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden." Socioloski pregled 54, no. 3 (2020): 961–1007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/socpreg54-28464.
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This article provides an early account to document Swedens strategy to the COVID-19 pandemic and critically examines the countrys crisis response during the first six months of 2020. Sweden stood out internationally with a hands-off approach that gained much attention. Schools remained open, no lock-downs were underaken, no face masks reccommended, even in care homes, and testing-tracing-isolation was very limited. Although Swedens death rate per million was among the seven highest in the world during the period, there was no change in strategy. The article employs concepts to analyse and understand this peculiar approach and the secutity culture and political culture underpinning it. It uncovers deeper systemic defects and a breakdown in the state functions accompanyied by secrecy and cover-ups, as well as a totalitarian element in the political culture.
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Zaldo-Aubanell, Quim, Ferran Campillo i López, Albert Bach, Isabel Serra, Joan Olivet-Vila, Marc Saez, David Pino, and Roser Maneja. "Community Risk Factors in the COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in Catalonia (Spain). A Population-Based Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 7 (April 4, 2021): 3768. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073768.
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The heterogenous distribution of both COVID-19 incidence and mortality in Catalonia (Spain) during the firsts moths of the pandemic suggests that differences in baseline risk factors across regions might play a relevant role in modulating the outcome of the pandemic. This paper investigates the associations between both COVID-19 incidence and mortality and air pollutant concentration levels, and screens the potential effect of the type of agri-food industry and the overall land use and cover (LULC) at area level. We used a main model with demographic, socioeconomic and comorbidity covariates highlighted in previous research as important predictors. This allowed us to take a glimpse of the independent effect of the explanatory variables when controlled for the main model covariates. Our findings are aligned with previous research showing that the baseline features of the regions in terms of general health status, pollutant concentration levels (here NO2 and PM10), type of agri-food industry, and type of land use and land cover have modulated the impact of COVID-19 at a regional scale. This study is among the first to explore the associations between COVID-19 and the type of agri-food industry and LULC data using a population-based approach. The results of this paper might serve as the basis to develop new research hypotheses using a more comprehensive approach, highlighting the inequalities of regions in terms of risk factors and their response to COVID-19, as well as fostering public policies towards more resilient and safer environments.
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Suhendro, Eko. "Strategi Pembelajaran Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini di Masa Pandemi Covid-19." Golden Age: Jurnal Ilmiah Tumbuh Kembang Anak Usia Dini 5, no. 3 (September 30, 2020): 133–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/jga.2020.53-05.
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The existence of COVID 19 which still hit Indonesia until September had a negative impact on education in Indonesia, especially early childhood education. This makes learning, which was a face-to-face system, must be changed to distance education. In order for learning to continue optimally, of course, the teacher must be able to apply different learning strategies. The type of research used is qualitative descriptive which is used to obtain safe information and from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on teaching and learning activities in PAUD. Research subjects / respondents for this study were teachers and parents of students who followed the PAUD Engineering level, data in the form of interviews. The application of learning strategies carried out by teachers during the Covid pandemic is by learning at home with online and offline methods. Bold learning is carried out through online networks such as through WA Groups as well as text messages and telephone. In addition, using other media such as television shows. While offline learning is carried out through the home visit method. Implementation of house-to-house learning is expected so that students get direct learning material to cover learning deficiencies who dare to experience some disturbances. The results of this study will be useful as a reference for PAUD teachers who have implemented learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Boutsi, Sotiria, Heather Campbell, Eugenia Fezza, Ross George, Cindayniah Godfrey, Claire Hoarau, Maria Leandro, et al. "Continuing Entomological Research During the Covid-19 Pandemic." Outlooks on Pest Management 32, no. 3 (June 1, 2021): 114–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1564/v32_jun_05.
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In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the UK has experienced three national lockdowns and a public health campaign designed to stop the spread of the virus. The first national lockdown, starting in March 2020, led to the closure of university campuses, and laboratories having to pause practical research and move research student supervision online. During this time, laboratories had to develop way for research activities to resume whilst also complying with public health measures. The entomology group at Harper Adams University is in the Agriculture and Environment Department and forms part of the Centre for Integrated Pest Management. At present our group consists of seven staff members, ranging from early career researchers to those with over 20 years of experience in academia and industry, who collectively supervise 10 PhD students at varying stages of their research. Two of these students are completing their research at an external institute. The group carries out research across multiple sites, office buildings, research laboratories, including the Jean Jackson Entomology Laboratory (https://www.infraportal.org.uk/node/1880), as well as field and glasshouse facilities. Here we provide a narrative account of the challenges in maintaining an active research group during a year of highly restricted activities. We begin by outlining the impact that national lockdowns and public health measures had on researchers working on PhD projects through to larger UKRI and levy-funded multi-institute, multi-year projects. We address four key areas: i) maintaining productivity, ii) student-supervisor interactions, iii) accessibility and widening participation and iv) well-being and mental health. We then outline how lessons learnt from lockdown can inform best practice for a research group. Many aspects will be useful for researchers working part-time, flexible hours, remotely or at multiple sites, but we emphasise that the aim of this contribution is to share our personal experiences and not to cover every theme in what is an extremely complex set of global circumstances.
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Jacob, Jabin T. "‘To Tell China’s Story Well’: China’s International Messaging during the COVID-19 Pandemic." China Report 56, no. 3 (July 14, 2020): 374–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0009445520930395.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has dented China’s image as an efficient party-state, given how an effort to cover up the outbreak and the resulting delays in reporting led to the virus spreading beyond its origins in Wuhan in Hubei province to the rest of the country as well as rapidly across the world. This article examines China’s massive external propaganda effort launched as part of the effort to repair the damage to its global image and interests. It notes how China has not let the situation stop it from pursuing its traditional foreign policy and security interests, including, of competition with the USA. The article also argues that it is the ruling Communist Party of China’s concerns about its legitimacy at home that have determined the nature and scale of Chinese responses to the pandemic outside its borders.
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Scheller, Bruno, Davor Vukadinovic, Sebastian Ewen, and Felix Mahfoud. "Off-the-shelf barrier for emergency intubation in the cardiac catheterization laboratory during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic." Clinical Research in Cardiology 109, no. 12 (July 4, 2020): 1507–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00392-020-01696-9.
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AbstractWith the spread of SARS-CoV-2, it is expected that cases of acute coronary syndrome in the setting of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) develop. As expensive and sophisticated protection devices are not widely available, we have been working on a simple, off-the-shelf protection device for endotracheal intubation of potentially infected patients. For this purpose, we used a large transparent plastic bag (such as the sterile protective cover of the lead glass shield) for protection from airborne infections. The cover is moved over the patient's head from cranial to caudal, covering the catheter table including the torso with no need for patient mobilization. The intubation is done conventionally under direct visual control.