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Acceptability of app-based contact tracing for COVID-19: Cross-country survey evidence
(2020-05-08)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest public health crisis of the last 100 years. Countries have responded with various levels of lockdown to save lives and stop health systems from being overwhelmed. At the ... -
Ad hoc laboratory-based surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 by real-time RT-PCR using minipools of RNA prepared from routine respiratory samples
(2020-04-22)Background: A novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), emerged in China in late 2019 and subsequently caused a pandemic. Surveillance is important to better appreciate this evolving ... -
Addressing Human Rights as Key to the COVID-19 Response
(2020-04-21)Introduction: The World Health Organization (WHO) Director General’s recent remarks on COVID-19 emphasized that “All countries must strike a fine balance between protecting health, minimizing economic and social disruption, ... -
APUA offers assistance during COVID-19 crisis
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Artificial Intelligence for COVID-19: Rapid Review
(2020-10-27)Background: COVID-19 was first discovered in December 2019 and has since evolved into a pandemic. Objective: To address this global health crisis, artificial intelligence (AI) has been deployed at various levels of the ... -
Assessing the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Switzerland
(2020-05-08)Following the rapid dissemination of COVID-19 cases in Switzerland, large-scale non- pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were implemented by the cantons and the federal government between February 28 and March 20. Estimates ... -
Association of infected probability of COVID-19 with ventilation rates in confined spaces: a Wells-Riley equation based investigation
(2020-04-24)Background: A growing number of epidemiological cases are proving the possibility of airborne transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Ensuring adequate ventilation rate is essential to reduce the risk of ... -
Associations of stay-at-home order and face-masking recommendation with trends in daily new cases and deaths of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in the United States
(2020-05-12)OBJECTIVE: To examine the associations of stay-at-home order and face-masking recommendation with trends in daily new cases and deaths of laboratory-confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States DESIGN: ... -
Barriers to conducting deprescribing in the elderly population amid the COVID-19 pandemic
(2020-05-29)Deprescribing aims to reduce polypharmacy, especially in the elderly population, in order to maintain or improve quality of life, reduce harm from medications, and limit healthcare expenditure. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ... -
Bidirectional contact tracing is required for reliable COVID-19 control
(2020-05-10)Contact tracing is critical to limiting the spread of pandemics such as COVID-19, but most protocols only "forward-trace" to notify people who were recently exposed. Using a stochastic branching process model, we find that ... -
Biological and epidemiological trends in the prevalence and mortality due to outbreaks of novel coronavirus COVID-19
(2020-04-09)The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) infection outbreak has posed a major threat to the international health system and economy. This study is aimed at investigating the biological and epidemiological trends in the prevalence ... -
Cash‐based approaches in humanitarian emergencies: a systematic review
(2017-12-17)This Campbell systematic review examines the effectiveness, efficiency and implementation of cash transfers in humanitarian settings. The review summarises evidence from five studies of effects, 10 studies of efficiency ... -
City lockdown and nationwide intensive community screening are effective in controlling the COVID-19 epidemic: Analysis based on a modified SIR model
(2020-08-28)Background: In December 2019, an outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic occurred in Wuhan, China and infection spread rapidly around the world. To limit the rapid spread locally and nationwide, the Chinese government locked down ... -
Closure of Educational Institutions
(2020-03-15)To mitigate the impact of the spread of COVID-19, all educational institutions in Antigua & Barbuda will close early for the Easter Vacation from Monday, 16th March to Friday, 27th March, 2020. The Ministry of Education ...