COVID-19, the Ubiquitous National Security Threat: Lessons Learned Around the Globe

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-79
Author(s):  
Shannon Havlicak Grondel
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
National Security ◽  
Hubei Province ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Small Cluster ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Global Pandemic

Today is October 1, 2020. In this moment, over 34 million bodies—that we know of—have hosted a deadly virus and more than one million of those bodies have succumbed to the strain of their unwelcome, malignant guest. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)—genetically related to, yet different from the coronavirus responsible for the 2003 SARS outbreak—is the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The virus first materialized in Wuhan, Hubei province, China as early as November 17, 2019, and quickly escalated from a small cluster of cases of what appeared to be pneumonia to a global pandemic by March 11, 2020.

scholarly journals Response to the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic: Lessons Learned from the Taiwan Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Charles Wu ◽  
Catherine Wu ◽  
Kun Chan Wu
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Metapopulation Model ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The World ◽  
The Taiwan Strait

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), or coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan, China and has since then spurred a global pandemic (Lai et al., 2020). Taiwan and China, separated only by 130 km across the Taiwan Strait, have frequent cross-strait interactions with each other; millions of people travel to and from between the two countries (Wang & Lin, 2020). Considering these facts, Lauren Gardner, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University, even predicted that Taiwan will have the second highest number of COVID-19 cases among the world using a metapopulation model (Gardner et al., 2020). However, with a population of 23.7 million people, Taiwan leads one of the least COVID-19 cases worldwide. With the help of technology, swift reactions, advanced deployment of resources, and complete transparency, the Taiwan model has made its success. By analyzing the actions taken and how they functioned in Taiwan in preventing a nationwide epidemic, other countries may benefit in understanding how to design better models for the prevention of future epidemics and pandemics.

scholarly journals Investigation and Management of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jovana Momic ◽  
Eric Di Gravio ◽  
Thulasie Manokaran ◽  
Ruchi Sharan ◽  
Meera Shah
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Diagnostic Tests ◽  
Clinical Presentation ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Hubei Province ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Unknown Etiology ◽  
Infection Rates ◽  
Test And Treat ◽  
Global Pandemic

In December 2019, an outbreak of viral pneumonia of unknown etiology arose in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Eventually isolated and named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), this virus has caused a global pandemic of the pneumonia-like Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). With global infection rates and deaths mounting, the medical community has been forced to recognize, test, and treat these patients within a rapidly evolving situation and a shortage of resources. In this article, we summarize the most recent data pertaining to the clinical presentation, diagnostic tests, imaging, and management strategies for COVID-19. This article concludes with a discussion of ongoing efforts to develop critically needed therapeutics and vaccines, which may subsequently shape our responses to future pandemics.

scholarly journals Do IT Tools Help Develop Community Policing? Lessons Learned from the Implementation of The National Security Threat Map in Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Robert Gawłowski ◽  
◽  
Mariusz Kubiak ◽  
Juliusz Piwowarski ◽  
Dariusz Minkiewicz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Police Administration ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Hierarchical Nature

In many countries, the police, as a part of public administration, have witnessed many changes during the last few years. This article explores the process of the reform of the Polish police force, which took place between 2015 and 2017. Doing so examines in detail the process of implementing an IT tool – The National Security Threat Map – by paying particular attention to the mechanism of engaging external stakeholders. This study is conceptual but empirically focused. The paper posits that, despite the hierarchical nature of the police administration structure, it is possible to build an engagement of external stakeholders.

scholarly journals Focus on the Potential Role of Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19 Pandemic: What More to Do?

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (22) ◽  
pp. 8398
Author(s):  
Beatrice Ragnoli ◽  
Mario Malerba
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Lung Ultrasound ◽  
Hubei Province ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World

COVID-19, a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerging in China’s Hubei province in late 2019, due to a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), is causing a global pandemic involving many areas of the world, which so far counts more than 43 million cases and more than 1,155,000 deaths worldwide [...]

The relevance of dietetic approach of Ayurveda from the perspective of COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 748-752
Author(s):  
Swapnali Khabade ◽  
Bharat Rathi ◽  
Renu Rathi
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Healthy Person ◽  
World Health ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Individual

A novel, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causes severe acute respiratory syndrome and spread globally from Wuhan, China. In March 2020 the World Health Organization declared the SARS-Cov-2 virus as a COVID- 19, a global pandemic. This pandemic happened to be followed by some restrictions, and specially lockdown playing the leading role for the people to get disassociated with their personal and social schedules. And now the food is the most necessary thing to take care of. It seems the new challenge for the individual is self-isolation to maintain themselves on the health basis and fight against the pandemic situation by boosting their immunity. Food organised by proper diet may maintain the physical and mental health of the individual. Ayurveda aims to promote and preserve the health, strength and the longevity of the healthy person and to cure the disease by properly channelling with and without Ahara. In Ayurveda, diet (Ahara) is considered as one of the critical pillars of life, and Langhana plays an important role too. This article will review the relevance of dietetic approach described in Ayurveda with and without food (Asthavidhi visheshaytana & Lanhgan) during COVID-19 like a pandemic.

The Unparalleled Growth of COVID-19 Publications (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Fontelo ◽  
Mrigendra Bastola ◽  
Craig Locatis ◽  
Fang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Us ◽  
International Collaborative ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Collaborative Publishing

UNSTRUCTURED The global pandemic of COVID-19 has generated an unprecedented number of research papers from clinicians and scientists worldwide. We searched PubMed for articles on coronaviruses from 1970 to June 2020. Surges of publications occurred in 2003 from SARS and, again in 2012 from MERS. Although the name COVID-19, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was only announced by WHO in February 2020, the number of publications has already exceeded 16000 by June this year. China and the US lead in publications, but a significant number also come from countries hardest hit by the illness. International collaborative publishing is significant. Since these publications are generally free to access worldwide, it provides a rich evidence base for clinicians and scientists combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals KI and WU Polyomavirus in Respiratory Samples of SARS-CoV-2 Infected Patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1259
Author(s):  
Carla Prezioso ◽  
Ugo Moens ◽  
Giuseppe Oliveto ◽  
Gabriele Brazzini ◽  
Francesca Piacentini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Respiratory Pathogens ◽  
Threshold Values ◽  
Cycle Threshold ◽  
Viral Interference ◽  
Disease Outcomes ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Wu Polyomavirus ◽  
Washington University

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been declared a global pandemic. Our goal was to determine whether co-infections with respiratory polyomaviruses, such as Karolinska Institutet polyomavirus (KIPyV) and Washington University polyomavirus (WUPyV) occur in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients. Oropharyngeal swabs from 150 individuals, 112 symptomatic COVID-19 patients and 38 healthcare workers not infected by SARS-CoV-2, were collected from March 2020 through May 2020 and tested for KIPyV and WUPyV DNA presence. Of the 112 SARS-CoV-2 positive patients, 27 (24.1%) were co-infected with KIPyV, 5 (4.5%) were positive for WUPyV, and 3 (2.7%) were infected simultaneously by KIPyV and WUPyV. Neither KIPyV nor WUPyV DNA was detected in samples of healthcare workers. Significant correlations were found in patients co-infected with SARS-CoV-2 and KIPyV (p < 0.05) and between SARS-CoV-2 cycle threshold values and KIPyV, WUPyV and KIPyV and WUPyV concurrently detected (p < 0.05). These results suggest that KIPyV and WUPyV may behave as opportunistic respiratory pathogens. Additional investigations are needed to understand the epidemiology and the prevalence of respiratory polyomavirus in COVID-19 patients and whether KIPyV and WUPyV could potentially drive viral interference or influence disease outcomes by upregulating SARS-CoV-2 replicative potential.

scholarly journals A case of SLE with COVID-19 and multiple infections

Open Medicine ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1054-1060
Author(s):  
Ruoqi Ning ◽  
Silu Meng ◽  
Fangxu Tang ◽  
Chong Yu ◽  
Dong Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Lupus Erythematosus ◽  
Influenza A ◽  
Immunosuppressive Drugs ◽  
Multiple Infections ◽  
Systemic Lupus ◽  
Suspected Infection ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Chronic Use

AbstractThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic, which is induced by infection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are susceptible to infections due to the chronic use of immunosuppressive drugs and the autoimmune disorders. Now we report a case of SLE infected with SARS-CoV-2, influenza A virus and Mycoplasma pneumoniae concurrently. The patient used hydroxychloroquine and prednisone chronically to control the SLE. After infection of SARS-CoV-2, she was given higher dose of prednisone than before and the same dosage of hydroxychloroquine. Besides, some empirical treatments such as antiviral, antibiotic and immunity regulating therapies were also given. The patient finally recovered from COVID-19. This case indicated that hydroxychloroquine may not be able to fully protect SLE patient form SARS-CoV-2. Intravenous immunoglobulin therapies and increased dose of corticosteroids might be adoptable for patient with both COVID-19 and SLE. Physicians should consider SARS-CoV-2 virus test when SLE patient presented with suspected infection or SLE flare under the epidemic of COVID-19.

scholarly journals Pandemic Prevention: Lessons from COVID-19

Encyclopedia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 433-444
Author(s):  
Mario Coccia
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Health System ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Policy Responses

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which appeared in late 2019, generating a pandemic crisis with high numbers of COVID-19-related infected individuals and deaths in manifold countries worldwide. Lessons learned from COVID-19 can be used to prevent pandemic threats by designing strategies to support different policy responses, not limited to the health system, directed to reduce the risks of the emergence of novel viral agents, the diffusion of infectious diseases and negative impact in society.

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